SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)

SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)	Score8.3 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is network diagnostics and troubleshooting technology, from Austin-based SolarWinds.	N/A

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	SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
Considered Both Products	SolarWinds Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) We evaluated PRTG Network Monitor which was similar to SolarWinds but was very resource-intensive and the server kept crashing when we got close to 100 devices whereas on SolarWinds we were able to add several thousand devices. We also evaluated Nagios Core as a free … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Solarwinds Network Configuration Manager is extremely powerful in allowing our organization to automate specific tasks. It is extremely simple to use and offers a Graphical User Interface for performing tasks. I am a very curious person, which has led me to use Ansible simply … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) All of the SolarWinds solutions stack up against their competition. The customer support is excellent, KB articles are details, and the community (Thwack) is the best when it comes to working through complex configurations/monitors. These are the things that make them the right … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) At the time SolarWinds was the biggest player in the space and their whole portfolio was very comprehensive. As time progressed and newer technologies came about (i.e. SDWAN) their products couldn't keep up with the consumer demands and changing market. Security became such a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) The product is easy to use, has great support, and is more cost-effective than the other products on the market. I would recommend this to anyone who asked for my opinion. Incentivized Helpful? Ned Kelley Cyber Security Engineer / Analyst in Information Technology at RTX (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) I have not evaluated other products similar in scope to SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM). Incentivized Helpful? Eduardo Ramirez Senior Cyber Security Engineer in Information Technology at Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. (Utilities, 1001-5000 employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Deployment is much easier than others like Cisco DNA, also because is a multivendor platform Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Solarwinds is more user friendly and easier to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) The templates and master configuration features together with the compare feature make SolarWinds NCM a no-brainer. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a great tool and matches much of the functionality of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. Nothing about Ansible will likely be overwhelming to an engineer with a little time to spare, but that spare time combined with SolarWinds … Incentivized Helpful? holt archer senior security architect in Information Technology at openmarket (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) I actually prefer the ManageEngine Network Configuration Management engine product but switched to SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager to standardize to our Orion deployment. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Charland Network System Administrator in Corporate at Sherweb (Computer & Network Security, 501-1000 employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is more efficient when it comes to setting up recurring tasks and different reports. Incentivized Helpful? James Jakimowicz Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Synergy Fiber (Computer Networking, 51-200 employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) We had previously used cattools and rancid for configuration management. Cattools is another Solarwinds product but one that we outgrew and doesn't integrate with the Orion platform like SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) does. Rancid it seems a lot of engineers are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) The SolarWinds NCM product stacks up well compared to just about any other product on the market. The NCM tool is super easy to use and will complement every Cisco or Aruba product that you may have. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) If it has been used and it has been functional since it reduces the work time by more than half, making the process faster, safer, and more precise, carrying out not so complex and functional processes referring to configurations of multiple devices at the same time in an agile … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Chisala, Jnr. MIEEE Technical Director in Professional Services at Ultimate Internetworking Solutions (Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Easy to use and does the job. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) SolarWinds NCM solution is more flexible and GUI is from my point of view more intuitive, from the other hand Manage Engine solution is [a] cheaper solution which has almost [the] same functionality but suffers of luck of deeper integration with other Manage Engine modules. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) LogicMonitor is very basic when it comes to config management, with support for a limited number of devices (though sufficient for us) and minimal frills/features. While we could have used it for the BC/DR portion of our solution, we wanted the better config diffs, compliance … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) automates our Network Configuration task and provides reliable Configuration backup option. Integrates with the SolarWinds Network Performance platform for alerting and reporting. Provides meaningful dashboards to manage network … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Needs several updates and better documentation on how to create deployment templates Incentivized Helpful? Edgar Eduardo Vazquez Arceo Network Engineer in Information Technology at Contel (Automotive, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) I have not had the opportunity to evaluate any of them, NCM has been the only software that has been used in recent years, and due to its good design, I have not had the need to look for additional software it meets my expectations and those of the manager. Incentivized Helpful? Shahab Razak Senior Network Architect in Information Technology at Finastra (Financial Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) was by far the easiest to implement and it just started working right out of the box. Within a few hours were we populating our config backup repository and soon after that, we were writing scripts to audit our configurations. … Incentivized Helpful? Fernando Villamil LAN Engineer in Information Technology at Maimonides Medical Center (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) We are looking at puppet just to keep our options open. This is more my area because I don't have to rely on windows. Sure there's some learning you need to do, but it runs on a solid system. Not much else we are looking at for comparison. Now if NCM moves to another OS, well … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Reese Information Technology Specialist in Information Technology at Michigan Supreme Court (Government Administration, 201-500 employees) Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) We did not evaluate any other similar products. When the need for a config manager arose, we already had a heavy investment in SolarWinds, so using another SolarWinds module made the most sense for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) We have a very diverse IT environment (Cisco/Palo Alto, VMWare, Cisco UC, SD-WAN, Windows Servers) and we wanted to have one suite of software that we could manage as many of our different areas in one single pane of glass. SolarWinds allows the network team, VOIP team, Storage … Incentivized Helpful?
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User Ratings
	SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (141 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.1 (6 ratings)
Usability	7.1 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (9 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)