We performed a comparison between OpenText Network Node Manager i and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's quite a mature solution."
"Topology creation is the most valuable feature."
"Our monitoring and network teams of less than 100 people use this solution. The availability and fault monitoring are good."
"It is a scalable product."
"It is stable for fault and availability."
"The best feature is the solution's entire credibility with all vendors."
"Real time network monitoring application: It is very stable, which provides quick root cause analysis (RCA) for any network faults."
"A good enterprise-level solution."
"Compared to other vendors, like NetBrain, managing the solution is easy. They made it very user-friendly."
"It is a stable solution."
"What's nice with NCM is you can set up policies that you can then check against the configs to ensure that your device configs adhere to a baseline or standard that you've set in place."
"This solution has helped our organization by allowing us to store all the device configurations for the various network devices in NCM and making it easy for us to retrieve and look them over."
"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."
"The installation is straightforward."
"It's perfect for network configuration management. It's easy to use."
"The solution's view is very nice, and they have a great customized dashboard."
"Right now, we have open tickets and they are not closing as expected."
"Only to improve the GUI."
"The way the solution currently works means I'm not able to customize my own reports."
"The resources utilized could be a bit higher, and that is one of the challenges that isn't optimized"
"The solution should integrate with NAC servers."
"They should add AI options in the product's next release."
"The deployment architecture and installation part needs improvement."
"As the technologies evolve, also these solutions or the monitoring tools should evolve to cover the progress in technology, including capabilities related to monitoring of virtualized devices today, as the DNS is on the table in this way."
"The Network Configuration Manager needs to improve the access control list compliance."
"When we run the SolarWinds NCM jobs at the cellular line, it runs in the morning. They're just not finishing. We're getting false processing."
"The network logs could be improved. When the error logs come across with those false positive alarms in the error logs."
"The only thing that requires some experience, and training doesn't fix, is how to set up your custom policy-based reports to check compliance."
"The solution could improve by being more secure."
"On NCM, reporting could be a bit better. It's completely become just one report. When I try to create a custom report, the solution just commits old server data."
"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."
"It would be great if they include a network service manager, network performance manager, or a privileged assessment in the next release."
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OpenText Network Node Manager i is ranked 10th in Network Management Applications with 23 reviews while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is ranked 11th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. OpenText Network Node Manager i is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OpenText Network Node Manager i writes "Easy-to-implement product with a valuable map topology feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager writes "Network configuration is done well; great pricing". OpenText Network Node Manager i is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, Fortinet FortiManager, DX Spectrum and IBM Tivoli NetCool, whereas SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, Cisco Prime, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware NSX and IBM Tivoli NetCool. See our OpenText Network Node Manager i vs. SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager report.
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