IBM Tivoli NetCool Reviews

Name: IBM Tivoli NetCool
Brand: IBM
Rating: 4 (12 reviews)

Vendor: IBM

3.8 out of 5

12 reviews
81% willing to recommend

1,149 followers

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IBM Tivoli Netcool delivers near real-time, consolidated event management across business infrastructure, data centers, complex networks and IT domains. The software provides full management and automation to help you deliver continuous uptime of business services and applications.

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IBM Tivoli NetCool is the #8 ranked solution in top Network Management Applications. PeerSpot users give IBM Tivoli NetCool an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. IBM Tivoli NetCool is most commonly compared to Cisco DNA Center: IBM Tivoli NetCool vs Cisco DNA Center. IBM Tivoli NetCool is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 23% of all views.

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Petar Ganev

Senior Enterprise Monitoring Engineer at Commerzbank

Jan 23, 2024

It is enterprise monitoring for many things, mainly for on-prem systems monitoring. OS monitoring for Unix, for Windows, it's a classic monitoring tool. So it's monitoring. It can monitor databases. It can monitor domain controllers, VMware, and many other things. There are more than 70 agents…

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Bassem Samir

Senior Transmission NOC Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Oct 26, 2022

Our company is based in Egypt and is involved in the transformation of fiber optics networks. Our team collaborates with the IBM operators to create algorithms. Our use case is a telecom transformation core network, a fiber optics network. We are IBM partners. The solution is very fast, there's…

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OmBachu

Founding Partner at Guild Systems

Jul 8, 2022

I mainly use Tivoli NetCool for network security and workload management Tivoli NetCool allows us to grasp a lot of data that can be applied toward predictive analytics and auto-remediation. Tivoli NetCool's most valuable feature is instrumentation. In the next release, Tivoli NetCool should…

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IBM Tivoli NetCool market share

As of May 2024, the market share of IBM Tivoli NetCool in the Network Management Applications category stands at 1.6%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The tool had many built-in automation capabilities."
"The feature I have found most valuable with NetCool is how it collaborates all the alarms, and then it does a predictive analysis, providing a consolidated alarm view and management."
"NetCool has a huge database that can collect and process about one million alarms a day."

Room for Improvement

"The solution does not have any AI capabilities."
"Tivoli NetCool is based on a Linux platform, it would be beneficial if they moved it to Windows because not everyone is acquainted with Linux."
"UI is outdated, very old legacy."

Pricing

"The price of the product is too expensive."
"It costs around 100k for every ten servers, which is lower than similar products from other vendors."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

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IBM Tivoli NetCool customers

Claranet, Consolidated Communications, Telus, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Telekom Srbija, Bendigo Community Telco, Capgemini, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB)