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BlueCat Integrity vs Cisco Prime Network Registrar comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

BlueCat Integrity
Ranking in DDI
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools (1st), Managed DNS (3rd)
Cisco Prime Network Registrar
Ranking in DDI
6th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the DDI category, the mindshare of BlueCat Integrity is 32.4%, down from 34.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cisco Prime Network Registrar is 4.8%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
DDI Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
BlueCat Integrity32.4%
Cisco Prime Network Registrar4.8%
Other62.800000000000004%
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Featured Reviews

reviewer2620476 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees
Easy to use, simple licensing, and has a single pane of glass view
The solution is too granular and sometimes complex to configure. We do not always need so many details. Simpler configurations with fewer details would be beneficial. The API aspect could be improved with more use cases and better handling of object attributes. It is already better than in previous versions. Their product team is planning further improvements in the upcoming version 9.6. Last month, we had a roadmap meeting with the BlueCat product team. There will be a lot of improvements in version 9.6 coming in the second half of 2025. We will then upgrade our system to that one. It will have quite a lot of new features.
Ramesh Benure - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
Centralized dashboard has improved monitoring of controllers and access points for large teams
Regarding policy-based management in Cisco Prime Network Registrar, I did not use that. As for leveraging APIs with Cisco Prime Network Registrar, I have not used any APIs. The importance of redundant configuration and failover capabilities in my network operations is highlighted by our use of a networking concept called GLBP for redundancy, and we are using HSRP as well. If you are talking about device redundancy or failover, we are doing the stack concept. I purchased Cisco Prime Network Registrar through a partner purchase. I would recommend Cisco Prime Network Registrar to other users, but it is expensive. I rate this product a nine out of ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"As a defense contractor, we must meet many compliance standards regarding logging, configuration, and administrative access. BlueCat is one of the few products that combines all the compliance components in a secure, reliable solution."
"It is easy to use. It has an understandable GUI interface. Its deployment is relatively easy."
"The most valuable features of BlueCat Integrity are the user-friendly UI and the permission management."
"We started seeing the benefits of Micetro immediately because as we started using it, we didn't have to go back to the Excel sheets that we were earlier following and then updating as we moved along."
"DNS aliases, which we use extensively in our applications are a valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of BlueCat Integrity is decentralized management, which enables real-time visibility and control over the entire IP address space, DNS, and DHCP from a single console."
"BlueCat Integrity provides us with flexibility and visibility that we did not have before."
"One of the key features enabling us to operate at our current scale is robust automation."
"The best features of Cisco Prime Network Registrar are that I can monitor all the controllers and access points."
 

Cons

"Adaptive DNS only supports AWS for network automation and cloud computing and would be improved if it also supported other options like Azure or Google Cloud."
"When you replace an appliance, there are many configuration steps, so adding zero-touch provisioning would be helpful. It can be quite tedious and time-consuming to replace a device if it fails or deploy a new one."
"One complaint about the interface is BlueCat's handling of subzones."
"However, it does not offer robust support for high availability failover with different subnets, especially if the servers are located in different data centers and belong to distinct IP networks."
"XHA has some very unusual requirements. If you're running just two BlueCat appliances for a given area of responsibility, then in VMware, if they land on the same VM host, you can run into challenges with XHA, which we are learning."
"Some areas need improvement, especially the issue with stale entries in the BlueCat tenancy. I have heard that it is already fixed in BlueCat Integrity 10. I have not used that yet."
"The IPAM dashboard could be enhanced to display more information and provide data analysis features."
"While the product is IPAM, DNS, and DHCP, it does provide NTP functionality, but one of the things that they have yet to correct or catch up with is NTP authentication. There are new standards being pushed out and they are lagging a little bit in supporting them."
"Aruba takes the license only once, but Cisco asks multiple times to renew the licenses, and it is very costly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"BlueCat Integrity's pricing is reasonable within the market."
"BlueCat Integrity is more cost-effective than Infoblox."
"We paid around $5,000 per year for SolarWinds, and now we pay around $20,000 per year for BlueCat, but we have less downtime and fewer issues with DNS and DHCP."
"Compared to other solutions, BlueCat Integrity offers a competitive price."
"Adaptive DNS's price depends on your network ranges, the services you want, and the level of support you require."
"I am not sure about the exact pricing, but I believe their cost is lower compared to Infoblox."
"BlueCat Integrity is affordable."
"They're competitive. The way they run their model is good. Could it stand some tweaking? Sure. There are some items there. One of the things I looked at in the recent past was their container solutions. You have to pay for licensing to use their containerized platform, but the licensing doesn't include the container licensing itself. I'd love to be able to have one big package per se."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise19
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with BlueCat Adaptive DNS?
They can improve their support for the CDNV application, which is Cloud Discovery and Visibility. I had to chase BlueCat support a lot for this application, and the support was not good. The CDNV a...
What is your primary use case for BlueCat Adaptive DNS?
We use it for getting an IPAM solution in AWS, which is our first use case. The second use case is we also use it for our on-premise networks to manage the IP ranges. We have distributed all the IP...
What advice do you have for others considering BlueCat Adaptive DNS?
If I were to put the support on a scale from one to ten, I would give a score of four. We are users without any partnerships with BlueCat. Somebody needs to see how the application is running on it...
What needs improvement with Cisco Prime Network Registrar?
The improvement I would like to see is related to licensing. Nowadays Cisco is forcing us to get licenses every three years. They launched new things on the license, calling them smart licenses, an...
What is your primary use case for Cisco Prime Network Registrar?
I use Cisco Prime Network Registrar to manage the WLC, wireless controller. In my organization, approximately 1,000 people work with Cisco Prime Network Registrar.
What advice do you have for others considering Cisco Prime Network Registrar?
Regarding policy-based management in Cisco Prime Network Registrar, I did not use that. As for leveraging APIs with Cisco Prime Network Registrar, I have not used any APIs. The importance of redund...
 

Also Known As

BlueCat Adaptive DNS, BlueCat Automation Manager, BlueCat DDI
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Sample Customers

Computer Sciences Corporation
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