Cisco Prime [EOL] vs SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager comparison

"It helps us manage and monitor analytics and fix issues."

"The endpoint information Cisco Prime generates helps us troubleshoot, and it's also useful for compliance reporting and endpoint identification."

"The VLAN mapping function has been most impactful in simplifying our network management tasks."

"Cisco Prime is helpful as it provides us with real-time monitoring. This allows us to be proactive in our environment."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is its excellent audio and video conferencing with clear quality and no interruptions."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat maps."

"The solution helps with the management and support of the enterprise network."

"The installation is easy."

"The network performance monitoring of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager is a vital feature"

"SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager improves the mean time to repair significantly, bringing measurable benefits to customers."

"Its main functionality is highly beneficial as it centralizes the management of configuration items across the network."

"It is a stable solution."

"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."

"It allows us to manage backups in big companies. It is also useful in managing the configuration changes."

"The features we find most valuable is the configuration backup automation, the configuration compliance, the security vulnerability detection and upgrading devices."

"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."

"The overall management capabilities of Prime need to be improved."

"The reporting feature of Cisco Prime should be improved."

"The solution is not easy to configure."

"The product's performance monitoring feature could be more intuitive."

"They can also improve the management of more enterprise devices."

"Some improvements are needed, specifically in the form of more updates and enhancements."

"Cisco Prime's initial setup is complex."

"Maybe it could be a little cheaper."

"The interface of solar winds could be improved."

"The network logs could be improved. When the error logs come across with those false positive alarms in the error logs."

"I would like to see more features in terms of wireless reporting and more historical information for client connectivity in SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager."

"Further improvements in automation are needed. Currently, there are limitations in performing tasks without logging into routers directly, and we expect more comprehensive device control."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The price of Cisco Prime was reasonable because we purchased it as part of a Cisco One package. The package was a bundle of Cisco solutions together, such as Cisco ISE and CMX. The price is reasonable com compared to other solutions."

"If we have a license for Cisco DNA, we can use the same license for Cisco Prime."

"The cost is quite high."

"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"The product is expensive compared to other vendors in the market."

"The solution is not inexpensive but is worth it for large-scale environments."

"I would rate the pricing of Cisco Prime a seven out of ten."

"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"You have a base license for 50 devices, and then you can add more licenses as you go."

"The pricing is good."

"Available at a moderate price"

"There is a license needed to use SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager."

"The price of the solution is high compared to other solutions."

"Additional costs beyond the standard licensing fee are inevitable."

"In Africa, the cost is a major factor in decision-making for many companies. As a result, some companies may choose cheaper solutions, even if they are open-source, over more expensive ones, such as SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. However, as an engineer, I believe that the functionalities and services offered by SolarWinds justify the cost. Nonetheless, many companies in Africa may still view the prices as unaffordable."

"We have to pay additionally for its support and maintenance."