We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and WhatsUp Gold 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."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"The product has excellent stability."
"Automation of the ILS."
"The interface of this solution is easy to use overall."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"Monitoring system provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network."
"I like running the scripts. With the help of a Python script, we deployed within the configuration and built up the code."
"The product makes the management of our environment simpler."
"The threshold alerting is the most valuable feature."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"It is easy to access and discover devices, as well as monitor them automatically. The topology discover is also a useful feature."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"It is stable."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The documentation is very good."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"It is not very easy to monitor or to browse."
"The reporting is not very intuitive and has room for improvement."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"The configuration is too complicated and you have to create templates and use a lot of menus."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"The tool's pricing strategy could be improved to compete more effectively in the market, especially against competitors like Huawei, Aruba, and Juniper."
"Data Center Network Manager is a little complex because it includes a lot of hardware to be installed."
"In the next release, I would like to see it merged with Prime and I think that it should be more unified."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"I think there are a few bugs now. Although they give some resolution for this, we cannot share the network remotely because of our company policy."
"The interface needs some work."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 26th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 45th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix and Cisco DNA Center, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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