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SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Case Study

Genesis Health Care Corporation

Introduction

This case study of Genesis HealthCare Corporation is based on an August 2015 survey of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“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.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager:

Problems experienced prior to using SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM):
- Wanted a faster and easier way to do compliance audits
- Needed a better way to backup and restore configuration files

Use Case

The key feature and functionality of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager that the surveyed company uses:

Company manages 2500 devices or more.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager:

Primary reasons for using NCM:
- Network automation to eliminate errors and add speed and consistency to all configuration changes
- Configuration auditing to more easily and quickly perform policy compliance audits
- Configuration backup and restore to provide operational continuity
Primary benefits from using NCM:
- Saves time making configuration changes
- Makes fewer errors when making standardized configuration changes
- Spends less time and effort demonstrating policy compliance
- Makes the network devices (and the network) more secure
Saves > 100 hours each month managing network configurations by using NCM.
Is > 100% more efficient at managing and implementing reliable network changes since deploying NCM.
Is > 100% faster at detecting and or fixing network configuration problems since using NCM.
Strongly agrees that they achieve far superior security and network reliability when they use network automation alongside their network monitoring solution.

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Genesis Health Care Corporation

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