We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and Observer GigaStor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"We use the product to manage access points."
"The tool's most valuable feature is the consolidated dashboard, providing insights into parameters and overall usage of network features. It allows us to easily summarize insights through the dashboards. The solution offers automation capabilities, particularly in the context of connecting LAN sites with websites."
"After installation, you almost forget that it is working."
"Automation of the ILS."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"Monitoring system provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Data Center Network Manager are consistency and the core server. The teams have had a good experience."
"The interface of this solution is easy to use overall."
"It can help to write your rules, organize firewalls, your block, and also your protocols and IP address to come in or out of your network."
"I also have the ability to see an application's performance, to see what's going on, why a network is slow, why this program for this user is experiencing a delay or some network issue"
"This solution allows us to see exactly what is going on in the network and we can very quickly solve issues with users."
"It's able to capture packets and, after a long time, you can come and use that information; to check, to analyze - everything you would want to do. So it's very good and helpful if you want to protect your data. It is stored in a certain place where you can access it every time you want to analyze it."
"The ability to capture packets. It is not only for monitoring. That is very important for a company that wants to keep an eye on the packets, the transactions, the flows..."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"If the customer thinks about using additional solutions, Cisco should make sure they are not left out."
"API lacks robustness."
"It's a relatively expensive product for some clients."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"One of the biggest challenges is that we aren't always able to push the configuration onto the target device. Whenever this happens, we have to do a factory reset, put on the script, and then reconfigure it again. In the next release, I would like to have a troubleshooting feature."
"The tool's pricing strategy could be improved to compete more effectively in the market, especially against competitors like Huawei, Aruba, and Juniper."
"It is not very easy to monitor or to browse."
"Graphics need improvement. Because a lot of the information there you have to input first in some case to have full potential. It could be more automated."
"Maybe the graphical user interface could be simplified to allow people to use it more easily. It's already good, but they can work more on it to make it even easier."
"I would like to have more than 4TB of storage available in the portable version of this solution."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 19 reviews while Observer GigaStor is ranked 88th in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 7.8, while Observer GigaStor is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Observer GigaStor writes "Provides long term capture and analysis capabilities". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix and PRTG Network Monitor, whereas Observer GigaStor is most compared with Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, Wireshark, Fortinet FortiSIEM, Kentik and Cisco Nexus Dashboard Data Broker.
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