We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and NIKSUN NetVCR 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."
"The feature I find most valuable is the single pane of glass where you can configure a monitor view, all from one dashboard. For example, on the wireless side, you can configure it under the configuration panel, and then view statistics like location analytics, user analytics, etc."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"The product can scale if you need it to."
"It is very easy to manage. It has good security, and it is working well with our firewall."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"Easy to configure with great troubleshooting feature."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"The ability to view the entire project stack, including the camera, features, and routers, which I believe are the most important or relevant components."
"The unique selling point of NIKSUN is its ability to scale and its reporting capabilities. NIKSUN captures the packets at a very high speed, from one GB to 160 Gbps also. It offers report granularity in nanoseconds."
"The most valuable features of NIKSUN NetVCR are its performance and forensic capabilities. Additionally, the information that the solution provides is highly detailed and useful. When dealing with network traffic packets can be sent at a high speed causing some security issues, but this solution is able to rapidly monitor the packets providing security."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to create a floor plan based on an existing PDF or JPEG, which is automatically converted into a usable network map."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"The coverage has been an issue for us."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"The solution could improve by having automatic mitigation. For example, as soon as a problem occurs the solution alarms and mitigates the situation immediately."
"NIKSUN is a passive solution. It provides you with you data, alerts, reports and the root cause of issues. However, it requires a person to make use of this functionality. If an event is happening and nobody attends to it, the effects of the event could be severe."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while NIKSUN NetVCR is ranked 101st in Network Monitoring Software with 2 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while NIKSUN NetVCR is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NIKSUN NetVCR writes "High performance, quick packet monitoring, and helpful support". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud, Cisco DNA Center and Zabbix, whereas NIKSUN NetVCR is most compared with . See our Meraki Dashboard vs. NIKSUN NetVCR report.
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