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IBM Tivoli NetCool Reviews

Vendor: IBM
3.8 out of 5
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As of April 2025, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool in the Network Management Applications category stands at 1.9%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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IBM Tivoli NetCool reviews

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Petar Ganev - PeerSpot user
Senior Enterprise Monitoring Engineer at Commerzbank
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool
Feb 5, 2024
Reliable for enterprise monitoring but no longer actively developed
Bassem Samir - PeerSpot user
Senior Transmission NOC Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool
Nov 13, 2022
Has a great filter and very good menu customization

Pros

"NetCool has a huge database that can collect and process about one million alarms a day. "

Cons

"UI is outdated, very old legacy."
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PP
Senior Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool
Nov 10, 2020
Product version discussed: 8.5.5
Has excellent support and there is a lot of helpful documentation online

Pros

"Support is one of the best aspects of this solution. NetCool is a good product that has good flexibility. There are a lot of documents available online which is one of the best features of IBM Tivoli Suite. Whenever an issue happens, rather than going to technical support, if you find the exact issue in Google, you can get tech notes for that particular issue."

Cons

"In terms of improvement, I would like to see more AIOps, Artificial Intelligent Operations in the next release. IBM develops new features for Power BI or Cognos Analytics, which is good. As of now, we use Cognos Analytics, we are not using Power BI. They have the Insight concept but we don't like that. "
Hennie Du Toit - PeerSpot user
Principal Specialist Architecture and Governance at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool
Jun 28, 2024
Combines the devices of the whole network for cross-domain correlations and request analysis

Pros

"The tool is much easier to manage than running scripts and figuring out how many endpoints have been exceeded."
PG
Technical Lead at Mycom Osi
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool
Feb 19, 2024
Provides useful customization features and a vast set of integrations and plug-ins

Pros

"The tool had many built-in automation capabilities."

Cons

"The solution does not have any AI capabilities."
OmBachu - PeerSpot user
Founding Partner at Guild Systems
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool
Jul 27, 2022
Good instrumentation and data gathering

Pros

"Tivoli NetCool allows us to grasp a lot of data that can be applied toward predictive analytics and auto-remediation."

Cons

"Tivoli NetCool's has medium scalability - there are some problems with its replications not being mature."
PeerSpot user
Application Security Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool
Dec 8, 2022
Product version discussed: 2019 version
Collaborates alarms, making it easier than running multiple systems and it does not require maintenance

Pros

"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. "

Cons

"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."
AH
Sales Account Manager at Future Systems | ITSM Solutions
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool
Jan 6, 2022
Easy to install and use, and reliable

Pros

"It's very easy to use."

Cons

"The installation could be simplified, and technical support could be faster."