Prior to using NCM, there was very little standardization and security was more of an afterthought than a primary focus. Using NCM we have found and brought all of our devices into compliance and as a result, passed a security audit by an outside auditor who was specifically looking for many things we had already taken care of using NCM.
— Craig Norborg, Network Engineer, Genesis HealthCare Corporation
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Customer Research
How many person-hours do you estimate your organization saves each month managing network configurations using NCM?
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Customer Research
Since using NCM, how much faster are you able to detect and/or fix network configuration problems?
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Customer Research
Since using NCM, how much more efficient are you at managing and implementing reliable network changes?
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Customer Research
What are the primary benefits you receive using NCM?
| Save time making configuration changes |
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| Make fewer errors when making standardized configuration changes |
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| Monitor configuration changes and fix configuration problems faster |
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| Spend less time and effort demonstrating policy compliance |
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| Make the network devices (and the network) more secure |
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| Plan and execute hardware replacement upgrades more efficiently |
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SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Customer Research
What are the primary reasons why you use NCM?
| Configuration monitoring to know when and how configurations have changed |
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| Network automation to eliminate errors and add speed and consistency to all configuration changes |
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| Configuration auditing to more easily and quickly perform policy compliance audits |
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| Configuration backup and restore to provide operational continuity |
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| Device end-of-life to determine and plan around device end-of-support and end-of-life |
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| Search to find where specific configuration policies are used across the network |
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| Security scanning to identify potential vulnerabilities in network devices and configurations |
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SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Customer Research
What problems did you experience managing network devices prior to using SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)?
| Configuration changes took too much time and/or were error prone |
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| Needed to know when configuration changes were made and/or prevent unapproved changes |
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| Wanted a faster and easier way to do compliance audits |
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| Needed a better way to backup and restore configuration files |
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| Needed to know when devices approached end-of-support and end-of-life |
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SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Customer Research
Since using NCM, how much more efficient are you at managing and implementing reliable network changes?
Jason Green, a Network Administrator at ALS is very likely to recommend SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager for the following reason:
All of our configurations get backed up every night. You can compare changes that are made to the configurations and easily see who made them. You can even push out changes through NCM. What’s not to like about it?!
Based on a response of 10 to the question “On a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager?”
A Systems Engineer of an educational institution is likely to recommend SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager for the following reason:
SolarWinds is a fantastic resource for managing thousands of endpoint switches at once.
Based on a response of 8 to the question “On a scale of 0-10, how likely would you be to recommend SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager?”
4.5/5 Stars
It is a vital tool for automating network configuration changes across 1000’s of devices in our infrastructure which would be a cumbersome process without tools like Orion and NCM.
It will save you time and headaches as well as provide the peace of mind, compliance reporting, and auditing required by most organizations.
4/5 Stars
We use it for backups of networking gear, change audits, and compliance.
I would. The recommendation would be based around ensuring we minimize downtime if we lose a device and the ability to understand what changes have occured to speed up recovery time if a configuration change has caused issues.
5/5 Stars
We use NCM to automatically back configurations, check configurations for errors, or comparison to other configurations.
I would recommend NCM to any network administrator, simply for the power and control it gives you over managing many, many devices. You can use as little or as many of the features as you like and you will still sit back and say to yourself, Wow, that’s cool! You just need to try it to see yourself.
4/5 Stars
We’re managing a large fleet of network devices from different manufacturers and it’s nice to do this in a single management console.
Certainly. The network engineering position is much more efficient and all issues experienced since implementing seem to be resolved much faster than before. SolarWinds consolidated three other network tools into a single management console and gives us much greater insight into the health of the network.
