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Overall, the experience with ManageEngine network Configuration Manager has been very positive. The tool delivers strong performance in centralized configuration management and has proven highly effective for backup automation as well as for controlling and auditing network changes. ManageEngine is a trusted and reliable vendor, offering well-positioned asset and network management solutions. It provides a modern, fully in-house platform that enables efficient management of network and IT infrastructure with complete visibility. Additionally, it supports multivendor orchestration, and the system integrates well with other applications and provides strong performance.

We brought the Ansible Automation Platform into our environment about two years ago, mainly because our infra team was drowning in repetitive config work across roughly 150 servers and a mix of network gear. It wasn't a magic switch, the first 3-4 months we spent mostly cleaning up inventories and rewriting the early playbooks our admins put together. But once we got past that hump, the plarform has genuinely held up its end. Deployments are predictable now, audit trails are clean, and my ops team finally gets weekends back. Red Hat's support has been responsive to the tickets we've raised. The only thing that keeps coming up internally is cost, which I jave to defend at every renewal.

We've been running BackBox in our multi-site network environment for just over a year, primarily for automated configuration backup and compliance auditing across our firewall and switching infrastructure. The platform covered a gap we'd been patching manually for too long. Deployment was straightforward and the device coverage out of the box was broader than most alternatives we evaluated.

skybox is very good tool and we get very informative details related to network security part.

OpenText Network Automation provides a stable, enterprise-grade platform for automating network configuration, compliance and change management across multi-vendor environments.

Working with Network to Code and Nautobot has been simply a fantastic experience! Not only have we partnered with Network to Code developing Nautobot and IaC solutions since 2024, we're now utilizing Nautobot enterprise support, which is something you really can't go without, especially in health care and insurance! Network to Code really leads the way for professional support of 'network source-of-truth' solutions, that organizations adopting network automation rely on, and have provided top-tier talent helping our team realize our goals of network automation and self-service infrastructure as code results. As an organization, they have been professional at all levels; approachable, knowledgeable, and capable of delivering what we used to call 'pie in the sky' directly onto our tables!

AppViewX is used as orchestrator platform for managing multiple Network components such as load balancer, firewall, dns, gslb etc., through automation and integrated with our devops strategy.

My experience with Entuity has been very good. It gives us clear visibility into network performance and helps us spot issues quicker than humans. It can take some time to get used to the interface but after a while it is really reliable.