We performed a comparison between OpenText Network Node Manager i and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can utilize the main file from various vendors for integration."
"The best feature is the solution's entire credibility with all vendors."
"We do not have any issues stability-wise."
"If you install one node on Network Node Manager and want to scale it up, it's pretty easy to create more nodes."
"It is stable for fault and availability."
"A good enterprise-level solution."
"It's quite a mature solution."
"Real time network monitoring application: It is very stable, which provides quick root cause analysis (RCA) for any network faults."
"Its main functionality is highly beneficial as it centralizes the management of configuration items across the network."
"It's perfect for network configuration management. It's easy to use."
"Compared to other vendors, like NetBrain, managing the solution is easy. They made it very user-friendly."
"We push all our configurations to the servers with ease and the logs capture almost all the transactions needed for an internal audit."
"The installation is straightforward."
"The solution's view is very nice, and they have a great customized dashboard."
"The features we find most valuable is the configuration backup automation, the configuration compliance, the security vulnerability detection and upgrading devices."
"It is pretty straightforward to set up."
"The way the solution currently works means I'm not able to customize my own reports."
"Reporting. Even though this is available in separate software (iSPI) there is potential in making the reporting more SLA-aware and more intuitive."
"Only to improve the GUI."
"Right now, we have open tickets and they are not closing as expected."
"As the technologies evolve, also these solutions or the monitoring tools should evolve to cover the progress in technology, including capabilities related to monitoring of virtualized devices today, as the DNS is on the table in this way."
"The solution should integrate with NAC servers."
"The deployment architecture and installation part needs improvement."
"The dashboards are not customizable and it's not user-friendly."
"The network logs could be improved. When the error logs come across with those false positive alarms in the error logs."
"The network flow is a problem for this solution."
"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."
"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."
"We want to be able to store it in a data warehouse format and integrate it with Google single sign-on."
"Improvements are needed in the automatic network mapping function."
"The third-party plugins available in the solution could improve. I have received some issues with the templates."
"The only thing that requires some experience, and training doesn't fix, is how to set up your custom policy-based reports to check compliance."
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OpenText Network Node Manager i is ranked 13th in Network Management Applications with 23 reviews while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is ranked 11th in Configuration Management with 22 reviews. OpenText Network Node Manager i is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of OpenText Network Node Manager i writes "Easy-to-implement product with a valuable map topology feature". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager writes "Network configuration is done well; great pricing". OpenText Network Node Manager i is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, IBM Tivoli NetCool, Fortinet FortiManager and DX Spectrum, whereas SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, Cisco Prime, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, VMware NSX and IBM Tivoli NetCool. See our OpenText Network Node Manager i vs. SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager report.
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