We performed a comparison between Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass and IBM Tivoli NetCool based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."Good user profiling and BYOD facilities."
"It helps secure IoT endpoints for specific networks."
"Tivoli NetCool allows us to grasp a lot of data that can be applied toward predictive analytics and auto-remediation."
"The scalability of monitoring, the breadth of supported network components, the scale of the number of monitoring events, and the flexibility in customization make this a well-rounded product."
"It's very easy to use."
"Support is one of the best aspects of this solution. NetCool is a good product that has good flexibility. There are a lot of documents available online which is one of the best features of IBM Tivoli Suite. Whenever an issue happens, rather than going to technical support, if you find the exact issue in Google, you can get tech notes for that particular issue."
"The solution has very good integration capabilities."
"NetCool has a huge database that can collect and process about one million alarms a day."
"It's very easy to use."
"Anything is possible with Tivoli. It's quite a robust system."
"There could be in-built end-to-end map integration features for IoT devices instead of using third-party tools."
"Lacks application level visibility on the dashboard."
"UI is outdated, very old legacy."
"The installation could be simplified, and technical support could be faster."
"The solution does not have any AI capabilities."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
"Customization and integration that you need to do to make the product fit your needs is very complex. It is not a product that somebody could easily pick up without any prior training or experience."
"The solution is too expensive."
"The installation could be simplified, and technical support could be faster."
"In terms of improvement, I would like to see more AIOps, Artificial Intelligent Operations in the next release. IBM develops new features for Power BI or Cognos Analytics, which is good. As of now, we use Cognos Analytics, we are not using Power BI. They have the Insight concept but we don't like that."
Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is ranked 20th in Network Management Applications with 2 reviews while IBM Tivoli NetCool is ranked 8th in Network Management Applications with 12 reviews. Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is rated 9.0, while IBM Tivoli NetCool is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass writes "Has an automated feature for user onboarding and supports heterogeneous devices ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli NetCool writes "Reliable for enterprise monitoring but no longer actively developed". Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass is most compared with Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista, whereas IBM Tivoli NetCool is most compared with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, OpenText Network Node Manager i, HPE Intelligent Management Center, Moogsoft and Cisco DNA Center.
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