IBM Tivoli NetCool Reviews

Vendor: IBM

3.8 out of 5

13 reviews
83% willing to recommend

1,152 followers

What is IBM Tivoli NetCool?

IBM Tivoli Netcool delivers near real-time, consolidated event management across business infrastructure, data centers, complex networks and IT domains. The software provides full management and automation to help you deliver continuous uptime of business services and applications.

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IBM Tivoli NetCool is the #14 ranked solution in top Network Management Applications. PeerSpot users give IBM Tivoli NetCool an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 13 most recent IBM Tivoli NetCool reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.0. (Among the lowest in the category). IBM Tivoli NetCool is most commonly compared to Cisco DNA Center: IBM Tivoli NetCool vs Cisco DNA Center. IBM Tivoli NetCool is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 62% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 28% of all views.

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Petar Ganev

Senior Enterprise Monitoring Engineer at Commerzbank

There are problems with the latest security requirements because many things have changed in recent years, and now the security audits are very strict. And we need to switch to something else. We need to patch it constantly. Moreover, it is a very old tool and a little bit difficult to support. Otherwise, they work okay.

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Bassem Samir

Senior Transmission NOC Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution is very fast, there's no lag or delay between the IBM solution and the other solutions like Huawei and Nokia. It has a huge database to collect and process about one million alarms a day. A great feature is the filter which can be dedicated for updates regarding alarms in real-time. NetCool also has good menu customization.

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OmBachu

Founding Partner at Guild Systems

I mainly use Tivoli NetCool for network security and workload management Tivoli NetCool allows us to grasp a lot of data that can be applied toward predictive analytics and auto-remediation. Tivoli NetCool's most valuable feature is instrumentation. In the next release, Tivoli NetCool should…

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IBM Tivoli NetCool mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool in the Network Management Applications category stands at 1.6%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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PeerAnalyst reports

Type	Title	Date
Category	Network Management Applications	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	IBM Tivoli NetCool vs Cisco DNA Center	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	IBM Tivoli NetCool vs Fortinet FortiManager	Dec 22, 2024	Download
Comparison	IBM Tivoli NetCool vs Aruba Airwave	Dec 22, 2024	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
Cisco DNA Center	4.0	29.7%	89%	40 interviews Add to research
DX Spectrum	4.2	2.0%	89%	116 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"The tool is much easier to manage than running scripts and figuring out how many endpoints have been exceeded."
"The tool had many built-in automation capabilities."
"The feature I have found most valuable with NetCool is how it collaborates all the alarms, and then it does a predictive analysis, providing a consolidated alarm view and management."

Room for Improvement

"The solution does not have any AI capabilities."
"Tivoli NetCool is based on a Linux platform, it would be beneficial if they moved it to Windows because not everyone is acquainted with Linux."
"UI is outdated, very old legacy."

Pricing

"The price of the product is too expensive."
"It costs around 100k for every ten servers, which is lower than similar products from other vendors."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

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15%

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IBM Tivoli NetCool customers

Claranet, Consolidated Communications, Telus, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Telekom Srbija, Bendigo Community Telco, Capgemini, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB)