We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and OpenText Network Automation based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It gives us automation capabilities for pushing out the configuration to branch networks. It also provides visibility into the health of user network devices."
"It is simple to manage and it is all done from a single dashboard."
"The best feature of Cisco DNA Center is the visibility page, where you can see everything on the dashboard, and you don't have to be a technical person to view the issues."
"DNA Center is scalable."
"Cisco DNA Center provides operational support, compliance support, security vulnerability detection, and automatic scheduling."
"Has a good processing feature with a high level of accuracy."
"We have many people from the team who manage a lot of devices. By using Cisco DNA Center, it has taken some of that burden away, we are impressed with it. We did the investment in CAPEX, but in the OPEX was very low."
"It enables monitoring of various components such as access points, switch cards, and other elements within the company's solutions."
"Pushing the network configuration to bulk devices. This saves a considerable amount of time that the engineer spends in pushing the network configuration."
"When compared with SolarWinds, it is more user-friendly, and tasks can be completed more quickly."
"Cisco DNA Center should improve its configuration management. It is better to have a dev version before pushing it."
"When it comes to deploying wireless fields, integrating defaults into the DNS interface can be challenging."
"From the recent DNA point of view, there are some stability challenges with Cisco, but very minor."
"The solution's technical support is an area with which my company's clients have a problem. Cisco doesn't provide good technical support unless a user has a big account that Cisco wants to retain."
"What I want to see in Cisco DNA Center in the future is more support for other platforms so that you can manage third-party products, such as Fortinet."
"As a user, it would be good if I could plug in controllers, suites, and devices from other vendors to Cisco DNA Center."
"They can improve the network visibility. Licensing and its maintenance are also needed."
"Technical support could be better. The price could be better, and it could be more stable."
"Compatibility of the devices needs to be enhanced, as it seems to be limited."
"Level one administration task can be defined in Micro Focus Network Automation but it could be more simplified."
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Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Automation with 37 reviews while OpenText Network Automation is ranked 11th in Network Automation. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while OpenText Network Automation is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Network Automation writes "Helps the configuration backup be validated before and after any change in the network infrastructure". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Juniper Mist Wired Assurance and Huawei eSight, whereas OpenText Network Automation is most compared with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, BackBox and NetBrain. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. OpenText Network Automation report.
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