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.
Technical Support Specialist at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Real User
Top 20
2023-04-18T15:35:00Z
Apr 18, 2023
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.
This solution has helped our organization by allowing us to store all the device configurations for the various network devices in NCM and making it easy for us to retrieve and look them over.
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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.
Senior Technical Consultant at ADE Technology Group
Consultant
Top 10
2023-01-03T21:13:34Z
Jan 3, 2023
Configuration refers to the specific settings and options that determine how a device or system behaves. It can include things, such as network settings, security settings, and other options that are specific to the device or system in question. One of the most valuable features of the solution was its ability to track and monitor changes to the configuration of devices on a network. This can be useful for troubleshooting and identifying potential issues. By keeping track of who made changes to the configuration and when it can be easier to determine the cause of any problems that may arise.
The features we find most valuable is the configuration backup automation, the configuration compliance, the security vulnerability detection and upgrading devices.
The latest release of NCM has a fantastic feature that allows simultaneous Firmware upgrades for devices. This used to be a sequential task earlier where one device at a time was taken up for firmware upgrade jobs.
Senior Engineer/Network Operations at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2020-03-09T08:07:00Z
Mar 9, 2020
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.
Before you monitor your network, configure it! A reliable and secure network starts with carefully planned, executed, and monitored network configuration and change management. SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) saves time and improves network reliability and security by managing configurations, changes, and compliance for routers, switches, and other network devices from Cisco, Juniper, HP, Dell, Brocade, Aruba, Rukus, and more.
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.
Its main functionality is highly beneficial as it centralizes the management of configuration items across the network.
The scanning features have proven to be highly valuable, particularly due to the comprehensive information they provide.
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 solution's view is very nice, and they have a great customized dashboard.
This solution has helped our organization by allowing us to store all the device configurations for the various network devices in NCM and making it easy for us to retrieve and look them over.
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.
Configuration refers to the specific settings and options that determine how a device or system behaves. It can include things, such as network settings, security settings, and other options that are specific to the device or system in question. One of the most valuable features of the solution was its ability to track and monitor changes to the configuration of devices on a network. This can be useful for troubleshooting and identifying potential issues. By keeping track of who made changes to the configuration and when it can be easier to determine the cause of any problems that may arise.
It is pretty straightforward to set up.
The features we find most valuable is the configuration backup automation, the configuration compliance, the security vulnerability detection and upgrading devices.
The latest release of NCM has a fantastic feature that allows simultaneous Firmware upgrades for devices. This used to be a sequential task earlier where one device at a time was taken up for firmware upgrade jobs.
It's perfect for network configuration management. It's easy to use.
The installation is straightforward.
It allows us to manage backups in big companies. It is also useful in managing the configuration changes.
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.
Compared to other vendors, like NetBrain, managing the solution is easy. They made it very user-friendly.
The most valuable features the solution offers are compliance, reliability, and information about reliability.
We push all our configurations to the servers with ease and the logs capture almost all the transactions needed for an internal audit.