I am getting alot of push to get rid of UDT and use NetDisco (of which they installed on a small system and it works very well)
Any good comparison points for my pitch to keep UDT?
Thank you @familyofcrowes , please let me know what SolarWinds says. I use UDT as well it does a decent job. I don't monitor everything on my network via UDT specific ports on switches but then I do know that data mismatch is present, but i believed it was because of the scanning interval of ports and short lived connections, I havent looked at it from this perspective though, it will be interesting to know if its a bug or something.
Thank you for your responses.
I should have started with the issues… We have UDT (SolarWinds Platform, NTA, UDT, SAM, NCM, IPAM, NPM: 2026.2.1) but noone will rely on it because its missing alot of data (simple MAC and/or the associated IP). As where NetDisco is working terrifically.
I would like to make UDT be as good as NetDisco, but its failing so far. Most switches only show a couple MACs and only a few show the VLAN or IP or DNS name….
We only have one polling engine with 7500 elements, but polling is at 100% and polling rate is 60% with a total job weight of 2110.
Most all of our devices are Cisco 9200 and 9300 switches (using VXLAN)
I have a ticket open with SW but just thought id throw this up here to see what yall have to say….
Hello @familyofcrowes What is it that you have on your end? Do you have a SolarWinds Observability Self Hosted environment or is it just a few modules along with UDT?
Looks like it all comes down to the cost probably (if it isnt for cost I dont see a reason as to why they want to jump onto NetDisco and if you are already on OSH then UDT comes as part of your existing license cost in such a case there isnt a need for a new tool), NetDisco does a decent job but only major differences would be that NetDisco is free/open source - what that means is you dont get vendor support. You might need a guy who knows a bit of Linux and lastly, reports or dashboards might not be as great as what SolarWinds can provide.
Start by figuring out why they picked NetDico. Get a list of items/features that they need.
Then compare it to what is available or can be built, in UDT.
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