Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager
We use NCM by SolarWinds to back up our configurations, inventory hardware, and create change reports to watch for unauthorized changes and/or in troubleshooting to help find things that recently changed if an outage occurs.
- Regular Configuration Backups.
- Configuration Change Reports.
- Hardware and Health Inventory.
- Updated GUI.
- Better integration with third parties such as Cisco -- they're working on it, but it's not quite ready.
- NCM has eliminated homemade scripts for the backup of device configurations.
- Policy reports allow for finding areas to improve our configuration settings for hardening images.
I've used other products like Nagios and other open source tools. NCM is a much better enterprise-ready solution, and the support they provide (US-Based, by the way), is top-notch.