We performed a comparison between Auvik Network Management (ANM) and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Troubleshooting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In my experience as an MSP, Auvik stood out for its ease of deployment."
"The stability is rock solid."
"The most valuable feature for us in Auvik is the network topology."
"Shadow IT monitoring is huge for us since so many of our customers are highly regulated."
"The instant email alerts Auvik sends are valuable because every second counts when a device is down."
"I love that Auvik can automatically back up the configuration of switches and firewalls."
"The monitoring and alerting are the most valuable features."
"Topography mapping is incredibly useful, especially when it's functioning properly."
"The session-level filtering features are valuable."
"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."
"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"Wireshark has a lot of features. It's a powerful tool if you're familiar with it. You can see everything on the network with it."
"I like the filtering feature as we can filter data easily. This feature is also available in tcpdump, but it's a simple piece of software. Wireshark is more advanced and has many features. It allows you to filter a lot of things. The output can be filtered easily. The most important feature is colorization. If I say, "Okay, this particular SMB protocol in red, it will show me red." It's easy to identify that protocol or capture data."
"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."
"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."
"The pricing always has room for improvement."
"Auvik mostly supports large vendors such as the Cisco Aruba networks, Meraki, and Extreme Networks."
"Some of the discovery methodologies could be improved upon. It removes the device that is offline, but when that gets added back, if there is any custom information saved for that device, such as it's a smartphone, you have to change and reenter the information all over again. It would be nice to not have to manually modify certain devices that get added to the network."
"I would like to see Auvik have some more documentation with a typical CM solution like Splunk. I want to see more examples of things like configuring port forwarding for firewalls. In addition to collecting data from different types of appliances, I would like to customize more of the metrics for each appliance."
"We have a few other networking tools. Some of them are specifically for managing Wi-Fi. They have some great features where they give specific recommendations based on the network traffic they're seeing and based on other customers that have had similar issues, or even just by looking at your own data that they're gathering. They give AI-based recommendations on how to improve the network. Auvik could have something like that. It gives us excellent visibility into the network, but if there is a way to include some remediation tips that are digestible by level-one and level-two techs, that would be great."
"When we deal with larger networks, the current interface is difficult to navigate around the network map because of the volume of devices."
"It's missing the license checker feature. We are using Salesforce and the license is a really crucial part of the development, and we have to monitor it. Now, I have to write a script and then run it on a random Linux box and get a notification if it's expiring. It's a really specific feature. I'm not sure Auvik will develop it."
"It is amazing in keeping device inventories up-to-date. It mostly keeps them up to date as things change. There were a couple of hiccups where a device would get replaced and the mapping would break, and we'd have to go in and fix the mapping. It was with devices that Auvik couldn't fully discover or devices that would change frequently, such as cell phones or other devices on the network that are dynamic and change all the time. The integration would just show up with an IP address and a MAC address. There was no other information in them, which wasn't very helpful. They were the devices that Auvik wasn't able to discover fully. If they had full SNMP or SSH credentials and Auvik knew what the device was and it was matched correctly in Auvik, then Auvik could push it through."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"Wireshark could make the filtering rules easier to apply and offer a drag-and-drop option as opposed to type and text."
"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."
"The system could be improved upon by adding a better and more powerful data processing engine."
"DNS could be improved."
"The initial setup depends upon the basics. You need to have a clear understanding of the basics."
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Auvik Network Management (ANM) is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 139 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. Auvik Network Management (ANM) is rated 8.8, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Auvik Network Management (ANM) writes "Enables us to get on top of issues before they become an outage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". Auvik Network Management (ANM) is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM and Zabbix, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Colasoft Capsa and Dynatrace. See our Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs. Wireshark report.
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