Old is Gold with much stability and operation overhead
April 30, 2021

Old is Gold with much stability and operation overhead

Nikhil Kumar Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Micro Focus Network Node Manager i (formerly HP Network Node Manager)

Micro Focus Network Node Manager i is being used by our end customers for their Network infrastructure monitoring such as routers, switches, loadbalancers, firewalls. There are some appliances also which are being monitored by Network Node Manager using SNMP protocol. This product is being used by the network team to keep an eye on their entire organization network fault and performance monitoring.
  • Network Fault and Performance Monitoring
  • Fault Tolerant
  • Distributed Architecture
  • Stability in operations
  • More out of the box monitoring parameters features
  • Improved GUI
  • Independent reporting functionality within NNMi
  • Network Fault and Performance Monitoring
  • Resiliency and Architecture
  • Product Stability when it comes to bulk of devices
  • Improved Network Monitoring Experience
  • Business stability has increased by using this product due to proactive monitoring capabilities
  • Capacity Planning has improved due to out of the box reports availability
Micro Focus comes with in built database for store its raw polled data from network devices and hence it is preferred tool compared to others since other tools requires additional efforts and cost involved as compared to Micro Focus. Also the stability of the product is vey much high as compared to other tools and that is again due to less overhead on Database Management.

Do you think OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi)'s feature set?

Yes

Did OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy OpenText Network Node Manager i (NNMi) again?

Yes

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Micro Focus Network Node Manager i is well suited when it comes to full fledged Network infrastructure monitoring using standard protocols such as ICMP, SNMP. NNMi can handle a good amount of devices load in a single server hence I prefer this tool very much as compared to other vendor tools in the market.
There are some improvement areas such as more out of the box parameters, GUI experience etc.