These are my thoughts of Cisco monitoring “software”. Just a heads up, all my thoughts are bad. I’ve been “using” (enduring?) Cisco software for quite some time now. There is a very good reason any network engineer worth their salt uses the command line and not the provided tools, they do terrible things to your configuration. But while software like the Security Device Manager (SDM) is bad and has been replaced by the slightly less bad Cisco Configuration Professional, there is a special place in purgatory reserved for Cisco LAN Management Suite (LMS).