We performed a comparison between IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) and SolarWinds Network Device Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"One of the most valuable features is the graphs, which you can build instantly. I have used some open-source platforms in the past, but they are not as good. With SevOne, the sampling in the graph can be every few seconds, not just every few minutes, and that's really helpful. It's really fast."
"We find that the reporting is particularly valuable in terms of not only communicating with our peer teams but also with the executives."
"Scalability. I have never had to worry about how to handle really big environments."
"Its ability to monitor practically any type of network device via SNMP is most valuable. This is the main functionality that we're using. If a network device exposes a metric, such as interface utilization, SevOne will monitor it for us."
"Flexible architecture: You can extend the system and its capacity by attaching another cluster pair."
"The monitoring of the network is very customizable. That is its unique feature."
"It also gives us the closest thing to real-time insight into network performance that we have, with just a 10-second delay. It's very important for us to know the health of the infrastructure very quickly."
"SevOne’s data collection functionality is very good. From a collection point of view, we pull SNMP data, which is simple. It is easy to manipulate the pull in the estate. It is really simple compared to some of the other products that we have used. However, for deferred data, i.e., things that we import or don't pull directly, we tend to have a preplanned integration. So, its Universal Collector is really useful."
"The deployment process is quick."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is monitoring."
"The solution and its interface are elaborate and fully integrate all monitored items for easy analysis and troubleshooting."
"Link monitoring is the most valuable feature of this solution."
"The most valuable features of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor are the reports. We are configuring the reports, and the first reports are only about the devices. We are configuring the thresholds in order to monitor all the devices."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is it shows you the utilization of devices to allow you to take proactive action before something goes down or reaches the saturation point. You can take proactive action to fix the problem before it occurs."
"The product is useful for switches and IP phones."
"The alerts we are getting when we start losing connection access have been helpful."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The customizations are very hard. The person doing it has to be very good at analytics and has to be very good in all languages"
"User-friendly, multi-tenancy."
"With the administrative management of the appliance, if some object appears from SevOne because something changed in the network or whatever, then as an administrator you will not be aware. If you are using this object in a report, this object will disappear from the report and you will not be aware of it. So, if you have 1,000 reports, you cannot always check these reports everyday to see if objects are missing or information has disappeared. We don't have any information on alerts, saying that something is happening there and maybe we need to take action. If an object was replaced by another one, or if a link was replaced by another one, then the graph needs to be changed because it doesn't exist in the graph anymore. However, we don't have this information."
"Some similar solutions offer end-to-end visibility."
"The method of searching for SIP and the way to create the groups."
"The reporting of NMS is good, but it could be better."
"Telemetry is hot these days, and IBM can improve SevOne's support for telemetry correction. Reporting is another feature that could be better. It provides the bare minimum functionality, which is good enough for most engineers, but the management isn't advanced. The new portal provides a much lighter view and better visualization, but the management is not so good."
"You need to plan integrations. That has been the biggest bug with SevOne so far. For the things that SevOne pulls directly, those are easy to understand, modify, and put into the database. For things that need to use the Universal Collector or xStats, you need to plan that stuff well in advance."
"If everything were in the package so that everything was ready to go out of the box, that would be ideal."
"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor could improve by being more user-friendly. The network has so many features which make it difficult to find how to configure how to use it. It is not simple to customize."
"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor could improve the features. We don't have the complete model for the database, and the monitoring for the database is up and down. We expect that we could monitor the blocking items on the database but we don't have that feature."
"The security needs improvement, which is why we are moving away from Solar Winds. We have security concerns."
"The way they are presenting the map of our devices needs to be improved."
"The security could always be improved."
"When an organization's network grows, the complexity of the dashboard becomes an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution is not user-friendly."
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IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is ranked 41st in Network Monitoring Software with 53 reviews while SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is ranked 43rd in Network Monitoring Software with 16 reviews. IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is rated 8.4, while SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) writes "We can get a new vendor certified and monitored in our system significantly faster than before". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor writes "An elaborate solution that fully integrates for easy monitoring and troubleshooting". IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is most compared with Instana Infrastructure Monitoring, LogicMonitor, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, Splunk Enterprise Security and SolarWinds NPM, whereas SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is most compared with FortiMonitor, ThousandEyes, ScienceLogic, Auvik Network Management (ANM) and Motadata Network Management System. See our IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) vs. SolarWinds Network Device Monitor report.
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