We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and Cisco Secure Network Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It uses push technology, which pushes the changes to all relevant devices to ensure they are updated accordingly."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the consolidated dashboard, providing insights into parameters and overall usage of network features. It allows us to easily summarize insights through the dashboards. The solution offers automation capabilities, particularly in the context of connecting LAN sites with websites."
"I like running the scripts. With the help of a Python script, we deployed within the configuration and built up the code."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"The interface of this solution is easy to use overall."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Data Center Network Manager are consistency and the core server. The teams have had a good experience."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"Fabric suite automation is a great feature."
"The solution reduces the amount of time it takes to detect and remediate threats."
"It does change the way we troubleshoot and it is relatively easy to use once you learn it. I would recommend it to someone considering it."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"It has improved our internal knowledge of what's going on with the network, and that's helpful."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"The most valuable feature we got out of Stealthwatch is to be able to, while troubleshooting, go deep into one of our interfaces and verify what the bandwidth is and if there's any activity there that's causing problems."
"Being able to graph and show data to management has improved our organization. We can show the data to the higher-ups. It shows them that it's picking up on these anomalies and doing its job."
"The fact that it can identify down to an IP address of a system that is causing problems, or potentially causing problems, is very valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"API lacks robustness."
"Could integrate better with VMware products."
"The reporting is not very intuitive and has room for improvement."
"Sometimes the product gives us problems that require support."
"The automation feature could be improved."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"One of the biggest challenges is that we aren't always able to push the configuration onto the target device. Whenever this happens, we have to do a factory reset, put on the script, and then reconfigure it again. In the next release, I would like to have a troubleshooting feature."
"The configuration is too complicated and you have to create templates and use a lot of menus."
"I would like to see better filters."
"Cisco Stealthwatch can improve by having bundled packages for popular add-ons. It would be a lot easier for people implementing it, have let's say a better way to use the product."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"The visualization could be improved, the GUI is not the best."
"The customizability of the UI should improve."
"I would like to see interoperability with other Cisco products because we have ThousandEyes, Cisco Prime, and others. The interaction among these is important to us."
"The initial setup was straightforward but required a lot of data entry, to begin with building out the server types and network types."
"The configuration of the solution was quite complex."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 26th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix, Cisco DNA Center and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. Cisco Secure Network Analytics report.
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