We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager and WhatsUp Gold based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Data Center Network Manager is absolutely stable."
"We use the product to manage access points."
"Monitoring system provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the stability of the solution."
"It uses push technology, which pushes the changes to all relevant devices to ensure they are updated accordingly."
"VCNM provides a unique capability of managing the admin VDCs of Nexus boxes."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"The product makes the management of our environment simpler."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"It handles the basics of monitoring."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The most important features of WhatsUp Gold are the server health and uptime it provides. Additionally, WhatsUp Gold is a Windows-based solution which is a benefit."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The user interface is good enough."
"NetFlow monitoring, real-time monitoring, and surveys have been the most valuable features for our business."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We need better performance and reliability."
"The automation feature could be improved."
"It would be nice to have the ability to more easily collect information from other software when doing some types of analysis."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"The solution needs to improve reports."
"The configuration is too complicated and you have to create templates and use a lot of menus."
"API lacks robustness."
"The delivery Cisco Data Center Network Manager could improve if it was easier. Additionally, some feature improvement is needed."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix and Cisco DNA Center, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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