Likelihood to Recommend Capsa is highly recommended to be used in small dense areas of a network where it makes sense to be able to run analytics off of a mirror port to gain insight into traffic trends. It is a costly product to install in branch locations, and requires a decent spec hardware to run appropriately
Read full review On its own, it's a solid choice for an SMB or Mid-size Enterprise if you're price sensitive and looking primarily for core functionality. SolarWinds has a large family of products that can also be leveraged in conjunction with SWNDM. Turning the product loose on a very large environment for discovery and mapping should be done with care and concern for a number of reasons but including the performance of the product for this task. If you're looking for an all-in-one product with some presumed supporting features built in (config manager, etc.) you'll need to look elsewhere.
Read full review Pros Robust Application. Able to handle traffic that most businesses will throw at it. Easy to use. Easy to setup captures and filter down to specific traffic types. Relatively cheap for what it's able to accomplish. Read full review Monitor for and record network device configuration changes. Allow for the creation, or modification, of hardening standards for multiple vendors' network devices. Automate the creation of alerts that can be sent to owners for correction of compliance violations. Allow you to organize a visualization of your network devices. Read full review Cons Needs options to scale to 10Gb/s networks. The cutoff for performance looks to be around 3Gb/sl Needs API access to trigger capturesl Needs Agents for remote capturesl Read full review More security put into the product, the Orion hack was not good news. More frequent releases to address small bugs rather than big releases that are rare. More IPv6 related features to make it easier for people familiar with IPv4 to learn IPv6. Ability to edit dashboards using JSON or another similar language. Read full review Alternatives Considered Colasoft performs more like the traditional wireshark as opposed to other solutions that tend to focus on graphs instead of giving you the raw data. I personally prefer the raw data, and then the ability to build graphs upon this (which Capsa can do). This allows for quicker analysis and makes it easier to relate to.
Read full review MS is meant for windows monitoring and up/down for mostly everything else. Moved away from MS System Center. Now we have better visibility and management can get reports. The other teams have added Linux to Solarwinds and also see improvements in monitoring. Whether you use snmp (v3), wmi or some other credentials to connect to you system, Solarwinds will more than likely be able to manage and monitor it.
Read full review Return on Investment While the product doesn't detect malware, it has helped track down malware infected machines by using data from other applications to run filters to look for known traffic destinations for that malware. For me this is a huge ROI since malware can be the great unknown. Relatively cheap compared to the feature set. Read full review Reduced site visits and recurring issues by 25 to 35% Enables proactive warning, thereby reducing downtime caused by unforeseen issues Provides a central panel for monitoring the entire network at a glance Allows for SLA management thereby increasing accountability by 50% Reduced time to repair by 35% as techs are more informed of root cause Read full review ScreenShots