Cisco Prime [EOL] vs SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager comparison

"Has a good wireless heatmap and search management features."

"Cisco Prime, from a management perspective, has good reporting."

"What I found most beneficial from Cisco Prime is that it gives you an insight into what your network does, even when you're not actively monitoring what's going on with your network."

"The product's most valuable features are monitoring and configuration."

"The hardware Cisco provides is excellent. It's a well-made product."

"It gives you the ability to upgrade switches remotely, schedule the upgrade time, perform backups, and monitor the health of all networks."

"Cisco Prime is user-friendly, so we are comfortable using it."

"The most valuable is the assistance for network support."

"The tool is useful for security purposes."

"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 is a stable solution."

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

"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."

"The feature that I really enjoy is the ability to script changes across all of your devices."

"I use it for monitoring the entire network for the company. We oversee nodes down, we oversee devices heading up to crossing the threshold for CPU usage. We oversee power so power backups on the switches, we oversee if they're down or if they're failing. We oversee any node down or any router from any vendor."

"The most valuable features the solution offers are compliance, reliability, and information about reliability."

"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."

"The user interface of Cisco Prime could be more user-friendly and increase its performance."

"They could consider offering more flexible pricing options for their customers."

"If you think about a centralized monitoring system, Cisco Prime is not good because it does not support third-party vendors like Palo Alto or FortiGate."

"The product needs to improve its interface and reporting."

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

"The reporting could be simplified and the information made clearer to the user."

"The solution is not easy to configure."

"Its look and feel can be improved. They can also put in more effort into building the THWACK community and use the information about various customer issues and requests to build the new releases."

"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."

"Releasing a product compatible with operating systems other than Windows would be advantageous."

"We want to be able to store it in a data warehouse format and integrate it with Google single sign-on."

"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 interface of solar winds could be improved."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Cisco Prime is an expensive solution."

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

"With a minimal bundle, we pay about $3000 a year in licensing costs. If you have multiple devices in your network, you must buy the bundle, which is 100% identical for your infrastructure. If you have 15 devices, you need 15 licenses, for example. That's one bundle. You don't pay for anything over and above that."

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

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

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

"The pricing is good."

"Pricing is reasonable and competitive."

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

"Available at a moderate price"