We performed a comparison between Cisco UCS Manager 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."It is more robust than other solutions. So, the stability is good."
"The solution is highly scalable, mainly because of the templates that make it easy for you to actually edit on the system."
"The management is one of the most valuable features of this solution."
"The flexibility and the ease in which the features can be expanded are the solution's most valuable aspects."
"Cisco UCS Manager is overall a good package because it gives a GUI interface and a CLI."
"Ease of management is certainly the most valuable feature in this product."
"What I like most about Cisco UCS Manager is the ease of administration. It also allows the central management of maintenance, installation, and configuration activities."
"I can deploy something in my 50-odd servers all in one go, in parallel, whereas if I was to do that individually, it could be a nightmare."
"One of the best features is the reports feature."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds NPM are network performance monitoring and the overall benefit for servers."
"The nice thing about SolarWinds is that it's kind of all-in-one. I can manage the status of my networking devices, whether they are up or down, I can see how much traffic is going across an interface, and I can run a report that tells me exactly what that traffic is."
"I love the GUI. Almost everything is accessible through the web interface. It is very user-friendly. It is easy to drag and drop resources wherever you want them."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"Technical support has always been great. They are very responsive. We've been satisfied with their level of support."
"The product is scalable."
"The automation within the solution needs to be simplified."
"The solution's pricing is high and could be reduced."
"Getting a CLI report on routers, switches, or any other CLI configuration device is difficult."
"Cisco UCS Manager should have a simplified deployment in the sense of not having multiple machines, demilitarized zones, and on-premise options."
"There is room for improvement in the software part of Cisco UCS Manager. It should be more user-friendly, especially when creating policies."
"The pricing can be better."
"Cisco UCS Manager is not a scalable solution because once you have 160 blades, it cannot be expanded more."
"The interface and the way it is constructed is very complex. They should work to simplify it. It's quite difficult for somebody who doesn't know the product very well. Users should be able to get proficient with it faster. There's definitely room for improvement there."
"Robustness of network element mapping tool could be better"
"The scalability can be better."
"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."
"The only real caveat that we have or that I have an issue with is when I go on vacation, it's a little hard for me to go and modify alerts so that I don't get alerted about things when I'm on vacation."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"Application Performance Monitoring should be included in this solution."
Cisco UCS Manager is ranked 29th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 21 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. Cisco UCS Manager is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco UCS Manager writes "Used to manage servers, monitor or manage firmware upgrades, and push policies". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Cisco UCS Manager is most compared with Cisco Intersight, Nutanix Prism, HPE OneView, Zabbix and Datadog, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Cisco UCS Manager vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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