We performed a comparison between Cisco Intersight and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Provides an overall view using a single portal."
"The product has good integration."
"Intersight can validate our environment."
"Scalable portfolio of services for remote device management, with good cloud integration. It's also easy to set up."
"What I like most about Cisco Intersight is its manageability."
"The tool helps to manage Cisco servers."
"I like Intersight because of the integration with HashiCorp, Kubernetes, and each cloud because Intersight is the IO module."
"Our organization uses Cisco Intersight since it helps manage our physical infrastructure."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its graphical interface and reports."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"With just three modules, I can monitor server performance (whether it’s a VM, in the cloud, or an on-premises server."
"The solution ranks as one of the top five monitoring tools."
"The product's setup should be easier."
"An area for improvement in Cisco Intersight is automation. It needs more automation capabilities. Apart from enhanced automation, I want Cisco Intersight to integrate with third-party monitoring tools in its next release."
"When new features are added, the service becomes full of bugs."
"In the future, the solution needs to plan on an extension to cover a broader range of objects since, at present, there are some Cisco devices within the range of Intersight UCS that it can't manage."
"The usability must be better."
"The product could be easy to use."
"The unique problem with Cisco Intersight is that it's not supporting some players."
"It's a very complex solution."
"They have had a rather large security breach in the past. It's cost some companies customers."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
"We'd like to see a bit more automation in the future."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"The solution is not always good with new features, so it's take a long time."
Cisco Intersight is ranked 25th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 10 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. Cisco Intersight is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Intersight writes "Helps know whether a solution is deployed correctly, but the automation capabilities are difficult to use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Cisco Intersight is most compared with Cisco UCS Manager, HPE OneView, IBM Turbonomic, VMware Aria Automation and Cisco CloudCenter, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Cisco Intersight vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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