DataMiner vs SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager comparison

"Data Miner allows you to take control. It has an API to talk to different products, including drivers to talk to the APIs of third-party products. You can control it from the screen."

"The solution will monitor data in real-time and can scale out well."

"The most valuable feature of DataMiner is its comprehensiveness. It provides an open driver that allows you to customize and program each aspect of the system. Additionally, there are many separate modules available that can be used to enhance the system's capabilities beyond just monitoring, allowing you to manage your entire workflow. This is a valuable feature that makes troubleshooting easier and helps to optimize the use of the system."

"The solution is user-friendly and is readily customizable, which allows us to do control and monitoring in a single stage."

"The installation is straightforward."

"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 tool is useful for security purposes."

"It is a stable solution."

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

"The configuration compliance aspect of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager allows for easy comparison of configuration settings across branches, ensuring adherence to security guidelines and best practices. Automation capabilities have greatly impacted workflows, enabling tasks such as configuration backups, template deployment, and firmware upgrades to be automated, thereby streamlining processes and saving time. Compliance reporting features provide valuable insights into network compliance, offering pre-built security audit reports and customizable options to meet specific requirements."

"The solution's view is very nice, and they have a great customized dashboard."

"We push all our configurations to the servers with ease and the logs capture almost all the transactions needed for an internal audit."

"We would like to have more products supported by the drivers because there are so many products out there. If DataMiner has not built the drivers to support them we can not control them, we can only see them based on SNMP. If more drivers are included, it won't cost us if we have new products."

"I am looking forward to the company continuing to improve its solution and incorporate new technologies. Specifically, I hope that they will allow their cloud database environment to host services, rather than requiring the use of on-premises digital or physical servers. The company is moving in this direction, but I am still waiting for this capability to be implemented."

"The system's complexity during installation could be reduced."

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

"The Network Configuration Manager needs to improve the access control list compliance."

"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."

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

"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."

"Improvements are needed in the automatic network mapping function."

"The solution could improve by being more secure."

"There are certain limitations of node-related monitoring"

"DataMiner is an expensive solution and that is why many companies do not use it. Other solutions are less expensive."

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

"Pricing is reasonable and competitive."

"Available at a moderate price"

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

"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."

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

"The pricing is good."

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