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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Auvik

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AAuvik Network Management is a vendor-agnostic cloud-based network monitoring and management solution providing automated network discovery. Auvik requires no service hardware or disruptive maintenance cycles and provides onboarding and training for new and existing users. Auvik delivers visibility and automation to reduce friction for IT teams and allow them to give end users the freedom to work wherever and however they…N/A

    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)

    Score3.1 out of 10
    N/AUnicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) from CA Technologies reached end of life (EOL) in 2015.N/A
    Pricing
    AuvikCA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AuvikCA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing is calculated per number of switches, routers, firewalls, and controllers. Everything else is monitored for free.
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    Community Pulse
    AuvikCA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Auvik Networks Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    113 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    92 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    114 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    76 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    92 Answers
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    Features
    AuvikCA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Auvik and CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Auvik
    7.9
    106 Ratings
    4% below category average
    CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Automated network device discovery9.6105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring8.8106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation7.883 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts8.6105 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network capacity planning7.683 Ratings00 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis7.065 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network mapping8.4104 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports5.678 Ratings00 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.485 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring8.296 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Auvik and CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Auvik
    -
    Ratings
    CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of Auvik and CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Auvik
    -
    Ratings
    CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    21% below category average
    Patch Management00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Service configuration management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of Auvik and CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Auvik
    -
    Ratings
    CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    5.5
    1 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Customizable reporting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Risk analysis00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Auvik and CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    Feature
    Auvik
    -
    Ratings
    CA Unicenter Network and Systems Management (Discontinued)
    2.0
    1 Ratings
    104% below category average
    Antivirus and malware management00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AuvikCA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (118 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    2.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    AuvikCA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Auvik is well suited for managed service customers and small-scale SMB customers who do not have enough technical resource to manage and monitor their network. Also for customer who has distributed networks spreaded across worldwide or nation wide, Auvik is well suited since it does not need any on-premise setup at each site except for a collector. For customer who has already adopted and used cloud network and hosting services, Auvik is better as Auvik is also fully cloud based offering
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    It's a decent system if you're a pure IT shop and want to become ITIL-aligned. It forces everyone into an ITIL mentality - service level agreements, change management, and asset tracking. It's very rote, for better and for worse. It's not appropriate at all as a customer-facing or non-IT facing self-service tool. You will never get your end users to really understand how to use the interface.
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    Pros
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    • Auvik is the big pic tool of choice for network diagramming, helps layout of our network infrastructure, and we'll know immediately the status of the devices that are successfully communicating, and those that may have, for example, credentials issues.
    • Auvik's "Traffic Insights" are key accelerators for intuitively isolating and resolving traffic-related issues quickly and easily, and the historical information makes it simpler to deduce what aspects may need replacement, capacity improvement, or possibly even re-architecture.
    • Auvik integration tools are excellent solution enhancers - that are of particular interest to our company, as we make use of MS Teams and Connectwise products; we would like to see some features to integrate to ServiceNow as well.
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    • ITIL ticketing (incidents, problems, etc.).
    • Change orders.
    • Matching up its asset management system with incidents/change orders.
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    Cons
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    • The map is not easy to quickly zoom in and out of or pan around. Usually requires a lot of filter toggling. Keyboard shortcuts for this would be nice.
    • Better global settings that can be pushed to multiple client organizations
    • Security groups/RBAC for user permissions across multiple clients
    • Ability to change the URL
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    • The user interface (UX) is antiquated and clunky. Compared to ServiceNow, it feels like it's 15 years behind.
    • It's complicated - We do routine internal training just to get people to use it correctly.
    • It doesn't have an automated way of discovering assets. Everything has to be force-fed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Because it's an amazing product.
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    Usability
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    The program can be a bit unwieldy at times, however the majority of information is displayed in a readable and friendly way. The maps and popup information box from the bottom can be harder to use on a smaller screen but on a 1080p+ display tends to work fine.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    We have never had a major outage or impact that was noticeable.
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    Performance
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Pages can be slow to load on larger sites but tends to be fine for most clients.
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    Support Rating
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Fast response and knowledgeable. If the technician does not know, they will look for the information and get back to you.
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    We have to hire 2 full-time 3rd-party consultants to run this application. That tells me it's not a very IT-friendly, vendor-supported application. Compare that with, say, SolarWinds, which is much easier for regular IT staff to customize without sacrificing features and capability. Sure, we have to bring in Loop1 to consult for us when we need to do a major SolarWinds config change or need a really unusual custom query built, but we never need more than 10 hours of consulting per month.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Auvik can stand up against any of the big network management and monitoring solutions on the market. I've implemented and used SolarWinds at many organizations for over 15 years. The paradigm that SolarWinds, PRTG, Prime, etc., work under is completely different than Auvik. It's apparent that Auvik was aiming to solve a different problem and built that solution from the ground up. For any organization responsible for multiple other organizations' infrastructure, Auvik is invaluable in comparison to the other products listed.
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    I did not select CA. If it were up to me, I would migrate us to ServiceNow. The user interface on ServiceNow is 100% more modern and 200% more user friendly. With ServiceNow, the front page for end users makes it clear: one button that says "Ask for something" and one button that says "Report a problem". That's what our end users need. The biggest problem we have in our organization is that our end users don't report issues to the Help Desk often enough and rarely ask for things through the Help Desk. A clean, simple self-service option like this would open up a world of new information for our customer service team.
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    Scalability
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    Auvik has worked on sites with 15+ offices connected with VPN's and we have not encountered any issues with the monitoring. On larger sites the map can be a bit cumbersome to read however it can be cleaned up easily with device filters.
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    Return on Investment
    Auvik Networks Inc.
    • the ROI for Auvik comes from the time it saves in updating documentation and onboarding, new clients. We no longer have to spend a day investigating a network and documenting it, this is life and up to date so you always have true information for reporting and troubleshooting.
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    • It helped make us an ITIL shop.
    • It was integral during our large IT consolidation 10 years ago in merging 10 different IT departments into one by converging on one ticketing system for all IT issues.
    • Its lack of user-friendliness has gated us from being able to deploy a true self-service IT help desk.
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    ScreenShots

    Auvik Screenshots

    Screenshot of a display of the big network picture used to narrow down possible devices to investigate. Auvik pulls data from sources like CDP, LLDP, and forwarding tables to meticulously model the Layer 1 network diagram. Layers 2 and 3 are built from ARP tables, IP assignments, and VLAN associations to show what’s on the network, where it is, and how it’s connected.Screenshot of Auvik’s automated inventory, which uses network protocols to detect and capture full details for every device on the network including make and model, serial number, IP address, and the physical switchport the device is connected to. If the device is known but not its location, Auvik can find the device and every other device it’s connected to.Screenshot of lifecycle data, pulled from supported devices to show whether they’re on current or expired support contracts, whether there are more up-to-date software versions available, if devices are eligible to receive critical security updates, and if devices are still available for purchase.Screenshot of Auvik's over 50 pre-configured alerts tuned to industry best practices and ranging from informational to emergency. Its pre-configured alerts can be tweaked, added to, and the frequency of how often notifications are sent can be changed.Screenshot of Auvik TrafficInsights, which leverages machine learning and traffic classification to show which applications—like Dropbox, Netflix, or Slack—or protocols are using up the bulk of the network’s bandwidth.Screenshot of Auvik's centralized syslog for all network devices where they can be viewed directly from the device dashboard for more context, to more quickly troubleshoot network issues.