Item: Auvik
Rating: 9
Author: Shawn Sachs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Auvik gives us an eye in the sky, monitoring our clients networking equipment. We often come into an environment filled with equipment from various vendors manufactured over the past 20 years. Auvik lets us walk in and quickly get a handle of what exists in the environment, how it was configured, and how we can start to improve upon it.

Pros and Cons

Network inventory
Monitoring
Topology mapping

Need more robust custom monitoring

Most Important Features

Network inventory
VMWare host monitoring
Switch configuration versioning
Monitoring

Return on Investment

Greatly improved response times to networking issues
Saves us a lot of time with switch and firewall config backups

Key Insights

Do you think Auvik delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Auvik's feature set?

Yes

Did Auvik live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Auvik go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Auvik again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

The larger the network, the more value you will see in Auvik. It really shines when you have 3 floors, 13 switches, etc. and someone, somewhere, caused a loop with their desk phone. We are very quickly able to dial in exactly where the loop has occurred and correct it. Smaller environments can benefit from monitoring and inventory too.

Auvik comes in clutch!

Overall Satisfaction with Auvik