IBM Tivoli NetCool vs SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager comparison

"Anything is possible with Tivoli. It's quite a robust system."

"The tool had many built-in automation capabilities."

"It improves customer satisfaction, deploy-ability, adaptability, flexibility, scalability, and reduces cost of operation."

"It's very easy to use."

"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."

"Full featured - event/fault management, performance management, topology map, discovery, RCA, event enrichment, Proviso will chart data from almost any source with a variety of aggregation options."

"The solution is a complete package; it has various useful elements including inventory management and incident management packaged inside it, and anything is possible with Tivoli since it is quite a robust system that offers a lot of useful integration capabilities."

"Tivoli NetCool allows us to grasp a lot of data that can be applied toward predictive analytics and auto-remediation."

"The network performance monitoring of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is a vital feature"

"Compared to other vendors, like NetBrain, managing the solution is easy. They made it very user-friendly."

"SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager improves the mean time to repair significantly, bringing measurable benefits to customers."

"The configuration compliance aspect of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager allows for easy comparison of configuration settings across branches, ensuring adherence to security guidelines and best practices. Automation capabilities have greatly impacted workflows, enabling tasks such as configuration backups, template deployment, and firmware upgrades to be automated, thereby streamlining processes and saving time. Compliance reporting features provide valuable insights into network compliance, offering pre-built security audit reports and customizable options to meet specific requirements."

"It's perfect for network configuration management, and it's easy to use."

"The most valuable Real-time fault detection is beneficial as it enables the identification of changes made to a device's configuration through the SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. This makes it easy to pinpoint which configurations were added or removed, potentially causing network issues. Such changes are saved in logs for future reference."

"It's a helpful tool and I really like it."

"Compared to other vendors, like NetBrain, managing the solution is easy; they made it very user-friendly."

"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."

"IBM's technical support takes a long time to do root cause analysis, and we have to go through several levels of help before getting a solution."

"In terms of improvement, I would like to see more AIOps, Artificial Intelligent Operations in the next release."

"From a customer perspective, it is quite an expensive solution to initially implement and then support."

"The installation could be simplified, and technical support could be faster."

"The installation could be simplified, and technical support could be faster."

"The solution is not user-friendly."

"When it comes to the way of managing the network devices, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager should provide the simplest way that devices can relate to the server. For example, when we want to get the devices on board, we go by SSH to make the SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager create the connectivity with the device. After that, we pull the configuration. It would be helpful if they could combine both so that everything will be done in one step."

"We do health checkups for the network devices. However, compared to NetBrain, the NCM health checkup is getting very bad."

"It would be great if they include a network service manager, network performance manager, or privileged assessment in the next release."

"There is room for improvement in automation."

"Our experience has shown that most of the problems we've had with SolarWinds NCM are related to software issues."

"It would be great if they include a network service manager, network performance manager, or a privileged assessment in the next release."

"The third-party plugins available in the solution could improve. I have received some issues with the templates."

"I would like to see more integration tools. Something like dialysis, for example."

"The price of the product is too expensive."

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"Customers are required to pay a licensing fee."

"It costs around 100k for every ten servers, which is lower than similar products from other vendors."

"I have a yearly subscription."

"Pricing is reasonable and competitive."

"There is a license needed to use SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager."

"Additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee are inevitable."

"In Africa, the cost is a major factor in decision-making for many companies. As a result, some companies may choose cheaper solutions, even if they are open-source, over more expensive ones, such as SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. However, as an engineer, I believe that the functionalities and services offered by SolarWinds justify the cost. Nonetheless, many companies in Africa may still view the prices as unaffordable."

"There is a license for the use of this solution and it is priced well, there is a lot of value for the money."

"The pricing is good."

"The price of the solution is high compared to other solutions."