- Network Configuration Manager (NCM) tools automate config backup, track every change, and let you roll back to a known-good state fast during an incident
- Compliance auditing (matching configs against a security baseline) is often the actual driver — not just disaster recovery
- It's a natural add-on to a network monitoring tool rather than a category most teams evaluate standalone
What It Does
ManageEngine Network Configuration Manager automates scheduled configuration backups, tracks and alerts on configuration changes, supports role-based access to control who can push changes, and runs compliance audits against security baselines — plus firmware vulnerability management and command execution via configlets for bulk changes across many devices at once.
ManageEngine Network Configuration Manager
Who It's For
Network teams managing more than a handful of switches/routers/firewalls who need config backup, change tracking, and rollback — especially if you're already using or planning to use OpManager, since NCM is designed as a tightly integrated add-on to it.
How It Compares
ManageEngine Network Configuration Manager
Config backup, change tracking, rollback, and compliance auditing with configlet-based bulk command execution — priced for mid-market network teams and integrated tightly with OpManager if you already use it.
SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager
The direct SolarWinds Orion-ecosystem equivalent — the natural choice if you're already invested in SolarWinds NPM and want config management in the same platform.
Cisco DNA Center / Prime Infrastructure
If your network is heavily Cisco, Cisco's own management platforms offer deep native config and compliance management specifically for Cisco gear. Not a fit for multi-vendor networks, and comes with Cisco's own licensing model.
Itential
A more modern, automation-and-orchestration-first platform (network-as-code, API-driven workflows) aimed at teams doing serious network automation rather than point-and-click config management. A bigger platform commitment than the tools above, aimed at more mature NetDevOps teams.
Bottom Line
- Already on or evaluating OpManager? Network Configuration Manager is the natural add-on.
- Already on SolarWinds Orion? Its NCM module keeps everything in one platform.
- Heavily Cisco network? Cisco's own DNA Center/Prime Infrastructure has the deepest native integration.
- Building toward network automation/NetDevOps, not just point config backup? Itential is the more ambitious platform.