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."We enjoy having an inside view of all the data centers and all the EdgeX nodes within a single portal rather than going into the EdgeX connections one by one."
"Intersight can validate our environment."
"The product has good integration."
"Cisco Intersight has valuable features for workflow automation and inventory administration."
"I like Intersight because of the integration with HashiCorp, Kubernetes, and each cloud because Intersight is the IO module."
"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."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"Provides a good level of tools and covers essential components."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"The most valuable features in SolarWinds NPM are the network search and diagnostic tools."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical user interface."
"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."
"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."
"Cisco Intersight needs some improvement in terms of stability. Hybrid cloud management and proper hyperscaler tie-up are other areas for improvement."
"The product's setup should be easier."
"The product could be easy to use."
"When new features are added, the service becomes full of bugs."
"The unique problem with Cisco Intersight is that it's not supporting some players."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
"The solution could be more secure."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"I think Solar Winds NPM needs to create a profile with documentation responsibility."
"It has covered everything, so no improvement is required at their end. The only thing is the price."
"It is difficult for stakeholders to translate technical requirements, which results in difficulties selecting a platform or implementing a solution."
"In terms of scalability, there is room for improvement. When you start monitoring, if you have so many interfaces and you're trying to monitor them at a faster interval, or a shorter interval, you get to a point where you need to request another node."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
Cisco Intersight is ranked 26th 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 "Scalable and easy to set up portfolio of services; good for remote device management and other functions". 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, Cisco UCS Director 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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