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If your IT team isn't proficient in automation and scripting, Solarwinds NCM can fill that gap (assuming your company's security team signs off on approving SW in your environment given the hack.) Basic device configuration, pushing mass changes reliably and backups are NCM's strong suites. If you have a complex scenario where if/then cases are needed, NCM is a bit lack luster. Auto discovery isn't as easy either as certain parameters need to be met for that feature to work 100% of the time Incentivized
On its own, it's a solid choice for an SMB or Mid-size Enterprise if you're price sensitive and looking primarily for core functionality. SolarWinds has a large family of products that can also be leveraged in conjunction with SWNDM. Turning the product loose on a very large environment for discovery and mapping should be done with care and concern for a number of reasons but including the performance of the product for this task. If you're looking for an all-in-one product with some presumed supporting features built in (config manager, etc.) you'll need to look elsewhere.Incentivized
Integrates with Network Performance Management for Alerting and Reporting.NetPath and detects issues due to Configuration Change.Keeps a record of which user made the change.Which devices are not being backed up, devices where backups are failing, dashboard and alerting available.Incentivized
Monitor for and record network device configuration changes.Allow for the creation, or modification, of hardening standards for multiple vendors' network devices.Automate the creation of alerts that can be sent to owners for correction of compliance violations.Allow you to organize a visualization of your network devices.Incentivized
For our use case, it does everything great and some of the features we underutilize but I would like to be able to set a configuration baseline when initially adding a node instead of after the configuration is pulled but it's not a particularly big deal to let it pull the configuration then set it as the baseline.Incentivized
More security put into the product, the Orion hack was not good news.More frequent releases to address small bugs rather than big releases that are rare.More IPv6 related features to make it easier for people familiar with IPv4 to learn IPv6.Ability to edit dashboards using JSON or another similar language.Incentivized
Medium complexity to set up in the beginning if using any non-standard devices or configurations, else fairly easy (e.g. Cisco Nexus or IOS-based devices). Reports are fairly straightforward to set up. Updates to the platform are fairly straightforward and don't take a major effort. Easy to add or remove devices.Incentivized
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.Incentivized
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.Incentivized
Solarwinds has actually produced new training since I last used it that is available on their site at any time. Their previous training was more than enough to get us started but now there is significantly more content. Since I'm comfortable with the Orion platform and the products we use I haven't checked the new training out yet but we have new staff go through portions of that training and they always come away with an understanding of the platform and ready to use it Incentivized
it was a fairly easy implementation and everything was pretty straightforward. only challenge we had was getting all the snmp communities updated on the networking equipment Incentivized
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a great tool and matches much of the functionality of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. Nothing about Ansible will likely be overwhelming to an engineer with a little time to spare, but that spare time combined with SolarWinds already being our monitoring tool made the decision easy. Time is at a premium in small teams and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is very easy to use right out of the box without all the tweaking required by powerful command line driven tools like Ansible.Incentivized
MS is meant for windows monitoring and up/down for mostly everything else. Moved away from MS System Center. Now we have better visibility and management can get reports. The other teams have added Linux to Solarwinds and also see improvements in monitoring. Whether you use snmp (v3), wmi or some other credentials to connect to you system, Solarwinds will more than likely be able to manage and monitor it.Incentivized
The time savings from automatic daily backups is significantThe compare configuration tool is super helpful at spotting errors when small changes occur that are hard to detect otherwise.The compliance check tool saves countless hours going through configurations for errors.Incentivized
Reduced site visits and recurring issues by 25 to 35%Enables proactive warning, thereby reducing downtime caused by unforeseen issuesProvides a central panel for monitoring the entire network at a glanceAllows for SLA management thereby increasing accountability by 50%Reduced time to repair by 35% as techs are more informed of root causeIncentivized