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SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager Case Study

Global 500 Aerospace & Defense Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 aerospace & defense company is based on an August 2015 survey of SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“We now have stronger configuration control and management of our network devices and are better able to identify and/or fix configuration issues with the use of this tool. Automating administrative tasks save us time and money!”

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):
- Experienced configuration changes took too much time and/or were error prone
- Needed to know when configuration changes were made and/or prevent unapproved changes
- 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 up to 500 devices.

Results

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
- Network automation to eliminate errors and add speed and consistency to all configuration changes
- Configuration backup and restore to provide operational continuity
Primary benefits from using NCM:
- Makes fewer errors when making standardized configuration changes
- Monitors configuration changes and fix configuration problems faster
- Spends less time and effort demonstrating policy compliance
Saves up to 25 hours each month managing network configurations by using NCM.
Is up to 25% more efficient at managing and implementing reliable network changes since deploying NCM.
Is up to 25% faster at detecting and or fixing network configuration problems since using NCM.
Agrees that they achieve far superior security and network reliability when they use network automation alongside their network monitoring solution.

TechValidate Research on SolarWinds Network Management

Global 500 Aerospace & Defense Company

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