We performed a comparison between Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista and Cisco Prime 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."The reports are good."
"The most valuable feature of Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista is the monitoring of wired and wireless equipment."
"I really like Visual RAF. I use that a lot and then I use the up and down status reports because it'll send me emails and text messages when access points go up or down. That way, I'm aware of what's going on."
"Being able to see the health of the network is most valuable. It is very strong in terms of stability and scalability. Their technical support is also good."
"It is a good investment for features."
"Network management solution that's very stable and scalable. It has a straightforward installation, fast technical support, and multiple features such as reporting, network health analysis, etc."
"The solution's configuration management tool is amazing because it centralizes and pushes configurations which saves a lot of volume and effort."
"The interfaces are a valuable feature."
"We use the solution to control the physical service station that is part of the SCADA network. We connect and control them remotely."
"Cisco Prime, from a management perspective, has good reporting."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat map."
"Cisco Prime is a good tool for inventory monitoring and wireless management."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat maps."
"We use Cisco Prime for network mapping and surveys."
"The location of the WiFi connection should be available to all users."
"Adding a reliable and proper heatmap for the access points would make this solution better."
"It needs to be infused with more artificial intelligence and machine learning."
"I would like to see a little better reporting, not reporting features, the report maker to be a little better."
"Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista could improve by adding more cybersecurity features."
"They should add more security features."
"Cisco Prime could improve the graphical user interface."
"The overall management capabilities of Prime need to be improved."
"If you look at some of the wireless site-survey tools that are available in the commercial space, Cisco should include similar solutions, which would help our on-plant engineers when they're doing a site survey."
"Cisco can only be used for Cisco environments and is not compatible with other vendors."
"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."
"The product's performance monitoring feature could be more intuitive."
"I would love for Cisco Prime to show bandwidth usage and consumption, but I can't monitor bandwidth usage at a given time."
"Cisco needs to improve Prime's monitoring tab. If any device goes down, there is a 15-second lapse before we know. It would be much better if we were alerted two or three minutes before a device is about to fail, so we can dispatch a field engineer and avoid network downtime. I would like to see a feature that allows you to access the devices directly from Prime's monitoring tab. That would make work easier for us."
Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista is ranked 17th in Network Management Applications with 6 reviews while Cisco Prime is ranked 2nd in Network Management Applications with 35 reviews. Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista is rated 9.0, while Cisco Prime is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista writes "Helpful support, useful monitoring, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Cisco Prime writes "Robust, cost-effective, and provides good visibility, but the scalability could improve". Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista is most compared with Alcatel-Lucent ClearPass, Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager and Aruba Airwave, whereas Cisco Prime is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Aruba Airwave, Huawei eSight and Fortinet FortiManager. See our Alcatel-Lucent OmniVista vs. Cisco Prime report.
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