TechValidate Research on SolarWinds Network Management

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

• Primary reasons for using NCM:
  • Configuration monitoring to know when and how configurations have changed
  • Configuration auditing to more easily and quickly perform policy compliance audits
  • Configuration backup and restore to provide operational continuity
  • Search to find where specific configuration policies are used across the network
  • Security scanning to identify potential vulnerabilities in network devices and configurations
• Primary benefits from using NCM:
  • Saves time making configuration changes
  • Makes fewer errors when making standardized configuration changes
  • Monitors configuration changes and fix configuration problems faster
  • Spends less time and effort demonstrating policy compliance
  • Makes the network devices (and the network) more secure
• Is > 100% more efficient at managing and implementing reliable network changes since deploying NCM.