We performed a comparison between Citrix ADM and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."We use the product for load balancing and as a reverse proxy solution."
"The most valuable features are for the ADMs and the overall monitoring environment."
"Content filtering, security layer, and application customization features are the most valuable."
"Available on any device and can be accessed on a wide area network."
"The most impressive thing about Citrix ADM is that we don't encounter latency."
"The analytics are a great feature."
"We like the periodic upgrades and backups, also made via ADMs, and it makes our environment much more robust and reliable."
"An essential component is the Director, which provides detailed insights into sessions, including identifying session failures, connection issues, user lockouts, etc. It presents a list of problems to address, enabling you to click on them and resolve them efficiently."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The solution's view is very nice, and they have a great customized dashboard."
"The most valuable Real-time fault detection is beneficial as it enables the identification of changes made to a device's configuration through the SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. This makes it easy to pinpoint which configurations were added or removed, potentially causing network issues. Such changes are saved in logs for future reference."
"The features we find most valuable is the configuration backup automation, the configuration compliance, the security vulnerability detection and upgrading devices."
"It allows us to manage backups in big companies. It is also useful in managing the configuration changes."
"What's nice with NCM is you can set up policies that you can then check against the configs to ensure that your device configs adhere to a baseline or standard that you've set in place."
"This solution has helped our organization by allowing us to store all the device configurations for the various network devices in NCM and making it easy for us to retrieve and look them over."
"SolarWinds NCM provides updates on the status of your network infrastructure. If any issues arise, such as a link failure or a device going offline, you will receive notifications and alerts. Additionally, if someone unplugs a cable, SolarWinds NCM will detect it. It also features a Topology Mapper that displays the connectivity of your network devices, giving you a visual representation of the network's structure. With SolarWinds NCM, you have a clear understanding of what's happening within your network and can generate comprehensive reports."
"Citrix is more expensive than Horizon."
"Citrix ADM needs to improve on its additional features and reduce the communication ports."
"I would like to see the virtual and desktop license included in the pricing."
"Some features of Citrix ADM are available on the cloud, which could really be helpful if they were available on an on-premise version."
"The tool's pricing is a pain point since we have many cheaper alternatives."
"When a new version comes out, sometimes, my existing configuration gets wiped out. They should work on this so that my existing configuration doesn't get impacted with an upgrade to a newer version. There could also reduce frequent firmware upgrade activities and have a stable version so that once we upgrade it, we don't have to upgrade it for two to three years."
"The interface could be improved, some customers struggle with that."
"They need to make the solution a little more familiar with easy study guides, learning videos, etc."
"The solution could have better integration."
"When it comes to the way of managing the network devices, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager should provide the simplest way that devices can relate to the server. For example, when we want to get the devices on board, we go by SSH to make the SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager create the connectivity with the device. After that, we pull the configuration. It would be helpful if they could combine both so that everything will be done in one step."
"On NCM, reporting could be a bit better. It's completely become just one report. When I try to create a custom report, the solution just commits old server data."
"For each device, when you open the network performance monitor, it will give you all of the information about the device, but many of the natural configuration management features are not on that page."
"When we run the SolarWinds NCM jobs at the cellular line, it runs in the morning. They're just not finishing. We're getting false processing."
"Releasing a product compatible with operating systems other than Windows would be advantageous."
"I would like to see more integration tools. Something like dialysis, for example."
"The Network Configuration Manager needs to improve the access control list compliance."
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Citrix ADM is ranked 9th in Network Management Applications with 9 reviews while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is ranked 11th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. Citrix ADM is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix ADM writes "A tool for centralized management including inventory and sales tracking". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager writes "Network configuration is done well; great pricing". Citrix ADM is most compared with DataMiner, whereas SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, Cisco Prime, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, OpenText Network Node Manager i and DataMiner.
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