We performed a comparison between Cisco Intersight and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Provides an overall view using a single portal."
"Intersight can validate our environment."
"What I like most about Cisco Intersight is its manageability."
"I like Intersight because of the integration with HashiCorp, Kubernetes, and each cloud because Intersight is the IO module."
"We enjoy having an inside view of all the data centers and all the EdgeX nodes within a single portal rather than going into the EdgeX connections one by one."
"Cisco Intersight has valuable features for workflow automation and inventory administration."
"Scalable portfolio of services for remote device management, with good cloud integration. It's also easy to set up."
"The product has good integration."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"The SolarWinds NPM framework, upon which most of their flagship products are built, empowers a wide variety of admins and users to quickly find value in their installed products."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"The nice thing about SolarWinds is that it's kind of all-in-one. I can manage the status of my networking devices, whether they are up or down, I can see how much traffic is going across an interface, and I can run a report that tells me exactly what that traffic is."
"Technical support has always been great. They are very responsive. We've been satisfied with their level of support."
"From web interfaces to custom monitors and alarms, this product has a high level of flexibility that can be molded to suit your business needs, regardless of the size of your organization."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"The product could be easy to use."
"In the future, the solution needs to plan on an extension to cover a broader range of objects since, at present, there are some Cisco devices within the range of Intersight UCS that it can't manage."
"The unique problem with Cisco Intersight is that it's not supporting some players."
"The product's setup should be easier."
"The solution needs some enhancement in order to build the cluster in two nodes."
"When new features are added, the service becomes full of bugs."
"The usability must be better."
"An area for improvement in Cisco Intersight is automation. It needs more automation capabilities. Apart from enhanced automation, I want Cisco Intersight to integrate with third-party monitoring tools in its next release."
"There needs to be more integration of widgets, especially for reporting purposes."
"Technical support can be slow to respond."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"It would be good to have high security."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"Application Performance Monitoring should be included in this solution."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"The solution's customer service is not very good because the support takes too long."
Cisco Intersight is ranked 26th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 10 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 147 reviews. Cisco Intersight is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Intersight writes "Scalable and easy to set up portfolio of services; good for remote device management and other functions". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". Cisco Intersight is most compared with Cisco UCS Manager, HPE OneView, IBM Turbonomic, Cisco UCS Director and Cisco CloudCenter, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our Cisco Intersight vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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