A PRACTICAL REPLACEMENT PLAN
Prove the future.
Retire the old stack.
Move from legacy monitoring to agentic network operations in controlled stages. Validate real coverage, real incidents and the response workflow before retiring redundant tools.
COMMAND|MONITOR
MIGRATION / REPLACEMENT PLAN
Legacy stack to agentic operations.
On track
SITES IN SCOPE
12
COVERAGE VALIDATED
100%
3
01
Map the current state
Complete
02
Connect and investigate
Complete
03
Measure and approve
In review
04
Cut over and simplify
Next
01
|
Map the current state
Bring the stack. Find the overlap.
Document the work your team does today, including the knowledge that sits outside software. Choose a representative set of locations, vendors and incident types.
Monitoring
coverage
List devices, checks, interfaces, thresholds, polling intervals, dashboards and reports. Include specialist requirements and historical retention needs.
Response
dependencies
Map paging, schedules, escalation, ticket routing, scripts and connections between tools. Identify teams that depend on them.
Operational
knowledge
Capture circuit records, site contacts, known limitations and runbooks. Validate what should become structured context or operator guidance.
COMMAND|MONITOR
NETWORK / HEALTH
A change worth investigating.
Degraded
LOCATION
Branch 014
PACKET LOSS
18%
LOCAL LAN
Healthy
09:00
09:10
09:20
09:30
09:14:02
WAN packet loss rises
Investigate
09:14:08
Interface errors detected
Related
02
|
Connect and investigate
Run the work
side by side.
Connect sources and validate data arrival, asset identity and location/service relationships. Keep the existing system available while you evaluate representative incident workflows.
Prove
collection
Compare required signals and source health across cloud checks, vendor APIs and behind-firewall collectors.
Prove the AI
workflow
Test known incidents and safe simulations. Inspect agent evidence, working assessments and the operator’s ability to direct the investigation.
Prove the
response
Validate escalation, notification delivery and the chosen ITSM handoff. Coordinate paging to prevent duplicate production response.
03
|
Measure and approve
Agree on what good looks like.
Set acceptance criteria before the evaluation. Use observed results from your environment to decide whether to expand.
Required checks pass; devices map correctly; collection and delivery failures are visible; critical notifications reach the owner.
Compare actionable versus total alerts, consoles used, manual handoffs and time to an evidence-backed finding.
Named operators understand investigation controls, response ownership and escalation. Document cutover and rollback conditions.
04
|
Cut over and simplify
Retire only what you have replaced.
Move by location or device group, then expand. Confirm stable operation and required history exports before removing redundant software and infrastructure.
Activate the agreed monitoring and paging policies, watch the first response cycles and confirm the service desk receives the expected information.
End overlapping monitoring licenses and decommission unneeded servers, databases, scripts and connections after dependencies are cleared.
Tune sources and policies, capture operator guidance and review recurring issues with leadership.
Compare your current stack
Make the switching case specific.
Explore the AI workflow, replacement scope and migration path for the platform you use today.
SolarWinds
Compare the operating approach and plan your evaluation.
Auvik
Compare the operating approach and plan your evaluation.
BigPanda
Compare the operating approach and plan your evaluation.
A few good questions
Get clear
on the details.
Can we replace SolarWinds?
Will we still need collectors?
How long will migration take?
What happens to historical data?
Your next operational advantage
Put AI to work.
Leave the sprawl behind.
Bring your stack and a recent incident.
See what your team can simplify.