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What is NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?
NETSCOUT’s nGeniousONE is a platform designed to monitor enterprise-level networks. It includes standard monitoring capabilities, as well as advanced inspection and analytics features.
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- Network monitoring (6)10.0100%
- Packet capture analysis (6)10.0100%
- Alerts (6)8.080%
- Network capacity planning (6)7.070%
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What is NETSCOUT nGeniusONE?
NETSCOUT’s nGeniousONE is a platform designed to monitor enterprise-level networks. It includes standard monitoring capabilities, as well as advanced inspection and analytics features.
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Features
Network Performance Monitoring
A network performance monitoring system monitors the entire network for performance problems and collects performance data such as network traffic analysis performance bottlenecks, etc.
- 10Automated network device discovery(3) Ratings
Automated network device discovery allows all devices in the environment to be found and tracked
- 10Network monitoring(6) Ratings
Monitoring network device availability and performance indicators like bandwidth, packet loss, CPU, WAN links, etc.
- 8Baseline threshold calculation(5) Ratings
Calculation of baseline thresholds so to establish warning thresholds
- 8Alerts(6) Ratings
Alerts warning of critical infrastructure component failure can be sent via email or SMS or other channel
- 7Network capacity planning(6) Ratings
Capacity planning analyzes interface utilization, disk usage, etc. and allows identification of capacity problems well in advance of threshold breach
- 10Packet capture analysis(6) Ratings
Interception of data packets provides performance-related information such as network and application response times, and traffic type analysis
- 9Network mapping(5) Ratings
Dynamic mapping tool allows the network topology to be mapped showing performance metrics, and link connection and utilization
- 8Customizable reports(6) Ratings
Ability to schedule, generate, and deliver custom performance and availability reports
- 9Wireless infrastructure monitoring(3) Ratings
Ability to monitor wireless access points, controllers, and connected clients
- 8Hardware health monitoring(3) Ratings
Ability to monitor key hardware metrics including temperature, fan speed, and power supply
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NetScout nGeniusONE has been widely adopted by multiple departments within companies, especially by operation teams responsible for managing and operating infrastructures like networks and data centers. Users have found this software to be immensely helpful in monitoring service performance and supporting root cause analysis for network performance degradation and outages. With the implementation of nGeniusONE, the system has been effectively operationalized into a monitoring solution for all IT organizations within the company. It enables the baseline of applications, facilitating alerting and reporting for further investigation of issues. The deep packet inspection capabilities of nGeniusONE trace connectivity between clients, providing detailed information on packet drops and potential reasons behind them, as well as other parameters related to network functioning. This feature greatly improves network stability and generates triggers and alarms for packet drops caused by connectivity issues or link flaps. Moreover, nGeniusONE acts as a valuable monitoring tool for enterprise or large organizations by identifying network problems and potential losses through the analysis of network connectivity and stability. It is also utilized to monitor multiple links between branch offices to ensure traffic flows correctly and within an acceptable timeframe. The software provides a user-friendly graphical interface that displays easy-to-interpret traffic statistics, allowing engineers to delve deeper into packets when necessary. nGeniusONE proves particularly useful when troubleshooting network issues since it provides metadata and packet-level data, granting better visibility into network activities. Dashboards can be easily set up for quick views into the network, while utilization of baselines helps identify abnormal behavior. If further analysis is required, packet level data can be exported and sent accordingly. With its extensive use cases such as bandwidth capacity management, analysis of top talkers and applications, VoIP call analysis, SharePoint traffic analysis, NetFlow analysis at every site, and data center packet capturing, NetScout nGeniusONE is globally employed at over a thousand locations for comprehensive network traffic analysis. It is leveraged not only by the Telecom department but also by the applications departments and service desk for initial incident triage.
Reliable and Effective Solution: Multiple users have found NetScout nGeniusONE to be a reliable and effective solution for deep diving into the packet layer and identifying network and service performance issues in the protocol layer.
Long-Term Reliability: Several reviewers have mentioned that they have been using NetScout nGeniusONE as their main monitoring solution for many years, indicating its long-term reliability and effectiveness.
Easy Troubleshooting and Analysis: Many users appreciate how easy it is to troubleshoot network issues with NetScout nGeniusONE. They mention being able to capture problematic connection sessions using various filters, export pcap files for further analysis, and easily go back to history captures and logs when investigating intermittent or hard-to-capture connection issues.
Slow performance when analyzing large network captures: Several users have reported that analyzing and downloading big size network captures on NetScout nGeniusONE is slow, especially when adding more filters. This issue has been mentioned by multiple reviewers and they hope for improvement in this area as the data being analyzed continues to grow in size.
High pricing: Many reviewers have expressed their concern about the high pricing of NetScout nGeniusONE, making it difficult for smaller businesses to afford these solutions. The cost of the software in this niche market has been noted as a major drawback by several users.
Complex deployment and configuration process with poor technical support: A significant number of users have found the deployment and initial configuration process of NetScout nGeniusONE to be time-consuming and requiring a considerable amount of effort and expertise. They also mention that the technical support provided is inadequate, as solutions are not provided during initial meetings and multiple follow-ups are required.
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(1-3 of 3)NETSCOUT nGeniusONE: The Perfect Network Performance Monitoring Tool
- It can be integrated with various third party tool or visibility solution like IXIA, and other NMS tool to get a detailed report about behavior of different application.
- It gives the ability to capture the packet in real time which is very beneficial.
- It gives a complete detailed history of past days or even months to track the overall behavior so that we can distinguish between the stable and unstable sites and can identify the mist critical site.
- The dashboard is very user friendly and all the features are clearly visible and well organized. It shows discovery and flap links very clearly location wise so that we can troubleshoot them.
- The deployment part and initial configuration require so much time and efforts and needs perfect expertise for the implementation purpose.
- Technical support is poor as they do not provide solution in initial meetings. In 2-3 meetings they simply collect logs and ask time for inspection. We need to continuously follow them for the solution.
- The costing part is very high and we can get other similar tools with a lot more features and functionalities. So this needs to addressed.
- With every new version, lot of bugs are introduced hence it is not recommended to move on latest version.
It is not well suited in scenarios where there is small network and they can survive if any link flaps for small duration of time.
- Automated network device discovery
- 100%10.0
- Network monitoring
- 100%10.0
- Baseline threshold calculation
- 80%8.0
- Alerts
- 80%8.0
- Network capacity planning
- 70%7.0
- Packet capture analysis
- 100%10.0
- Network mapping
- 90%9.0
- Customizable reports
- 80%8.0
- Wireless infrastructure monitoring
- 90%9.0
- Hardware health monitoring
- 80%8.0
- NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is the best tool and very profitable for our organization as it helped in to reduce the manual effort of engineers to track the Network flaps and connectivity issue.
- Return on investment for this product is quiet good as of now and we have achieved 80% ROI till now and we are very much confident that we will achieve the full ROI.
- It has helped in cost cutting as we need only few network admin and engineers to track the discovery, behavior and connectivity. Earlier we need a lot of employee to do that due to which the organization may suffer some financial loss.
Complex But Useful
- Packet captures
- Metadata of Network
- Troubleshooting Issues
- Complicated UI
- Requires Training
- Complex initial configuration
- Network monitoring
- 70%7.0
- Baseline threshold calculation
- 50%5.0
- Alerts
- 60%6.0
- Network capacity planning
- 80%8.0
- Packet capture analysis
- 100%10.0
- Customizable reports
- 70%7.0
- Identify problems
- Point toward solutions
- CISO dashboards
Useful but costly network monitoring tool
- Good NetFlow collection and analysis.
- Complete suite of network and application analysis features in one tool.
- Integration of network and application metrics for comprehensive performance analysis.
- The interface is very cumbersome and not intuitive.
- Lack of a strong and understandable API for integration with other tools.
- High cost.
- Network monitoring
- 90%9.0
- Baseline threshold calculation
- N/AN/A
- Alerts
- 90%9.0
- Network capacity planning
- 100%10.0
- Packet capture analysis
- 90%9.0
- Network mapping
- 80%8.0
- Customizable reports
- 70%7.0
- Wireless infrastructure monitoring
- N/AN/A
- Positive: Improved incident MTTR (Mean Time To Resolve), reducing business downtime.
- Positive: Proactive bandwidth capacity management improving financial visibility and business productivity.
- Negative: High maintenance required for large organizations with very dynamic changes.
ExtraHop was evaluated but I'm not sure that it was any simpler to use than NetScout. However, it seems to have a more robust API that we could totally use.