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SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
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Likelihood to Recommend
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
You can use it while you sleep. My favorite part. If you are not aware of your systems health, don't worry it will tell you. Well first you need other modules from the SolarWinds toolkit. Your other teams will like this because of the flexibility it provides integrating. You now have a centralize system with the ability to give you a good nights rest. If you have silos you will need to review how you can segment your systems, especially security from network.
LAN Engineer
Maimonides Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
I believe that SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is well suited for any business that needs to monitor critical infrastructure to provide high availability. Small business with non critical equipment that can afford to be down for a few hours I would say that it would be less appropriate.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Real Estate Company, 51-200 employeesPros
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
- Configuration Comparison Tool is great since you can quickly compare configs in a single pane of glass. To make things easier to identify, NCM will highlight the differences.
- Vulnerability reporting on all current versions of Cisco IOS/NXOS software. NCM will identify the version of firmware you are using and also list the most well known CVE vulnerabilities that are associated with each version.
- I appreciate NCM is vendor agnostic. It will consume configs from any network device. It can also be customized to look for certain strings that are missing or to look for certain strings that are present. Very flexible and since it isn't vendor specific, I don't feel like I'm being forced to buy a certain manufacturer to obtain all of the 'features' like I do with other products.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Retail Company, 10,001+ employeesSolarWinds Network Device Monitor
- Hardware health status
- Power supply status of the Network Devices
- Transmit/Discard errors
- High Latency

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Real Estate Company, 51-200 employeesCons
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
- The NCM does not work particularly well out of the box on some not so popular network hardware like Ubiquiti, Fluid Mesh and others
- The auto-select device does not always work and sometimes you have to modify a template to get the full backup to work. SolarWinds tech support can help with this if you are not familiar
- The email notifications of the backups and the deltas are very simple html. It would be nice to see some improvement on the output there. Looks about 10 years old...
Network Engineer Supervisor
City of Santa MariaGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
- Vulnerability Management
- Vulnerability Patching
- Hardware firmware recommendation

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Real Estate Company, 51-200 employeesLikelihood to Renew
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 8.1
Based on 4 answers
I simply love this product for what it does. it backups our configs and stores them so i don't have to worry about if we have current configs. It allows me to recover from a cisco failure in a matter of minutes rather than hours. I only have to copy and paste instead of recreate. so the maximum downtime we have is the time it takes to get the physical hardware replaced
Systems Administrator
Scott Equipment Company, LLCConstruction, 501-1000 employees
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
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Usability
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 7.3
Based on 8 answers
The user interface is lacking. It is difficult to navigate at times and things can be done multiple ways. Quite often I am confused by how their notification structure works. It is not very intuitive. They do offer a free Academy. They also offer a community of other technical folks. I have enjoyed both.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Design Company, 51-200 employeesSolarWinds Network Device Monitor
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Support Rating
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 7.0
Based on 13 answers
To be fair, I have not had to involve Support in a number of years, but when I did, I was greeted with enthusiastic engineers who wanted to understand and solve the issue. It was a fairly complex scenario and I have discovered in my most recent implementation that engineering included that option as a standard now.
Network Engineer
AAICInsurance, 51-200 employees
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
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Implementation Rating
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 9.1
Based on 6 answers
Change management played a key role in our organisation. We didn't have any major downtime but it was crucial for us to get his product.
Network Engineer
Commonwealth of MAInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
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Alternatives Considered
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
We have a very diverse IT environment (Cisco/Palo Alto, VMWare, Cisco UC, SD-WAN, Windows Servers) and we wanted to have one suite of software that we could manage as many of our different areas in one single pane of glass. SolarWinds allows the network team, VOIP team, Storage and Systems teams to all use the same platform to get their monitoring, alerting and reporting.

Verified User
Supervisor in Information Technology
Banking Company, 501-1000 employeesSolarWinds Network Device Monitor
I selected SolarWinds Network Device Monitor for 2 main reasons, functionality and support

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Real Estate Company, 51-200 employeesReturn on Investment
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
- Prior to breaking the baseline function, NCM was considered our most valuable network tool. Without adding any additional FTEs, we could ensure we maintained current backups, ensured consistent application of security settings and can monitor for unauthorized changes.
- For a very little additional cost, we vastly improved our network security and availability.
Team Lead, Network Services
ATCO ElectricUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
- Return on Investment
- Quick and informative alerts on new issues
- Alerting is the main key for a quick remediation on unexpected issues.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Real Estate Company, 51-200 employeesScreenshots
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—Pricing Details
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No