SolarWinds ipMonitor vs SolarWinds NPM

• ipMonitor is well suited to use SNMP sources to monitor up states and usage such as network interfaces
• ipMonitor does a great job of measuring bandwidth usage and delivering a long term 'picture' of usage
• ipMonitor has an exceptional interface that is easy to use and simple to navigate

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• The UI is dashing, user-friendly, yet powerful enough to do almost all the administrative tasks with the click of a button.
• The deployment and configuration is made simple thanks to the step-by-step guiding wizards.
• Reporting and KPI have the flexibility to run both simple and complex queries to get the intended output.
• Sonar discovery is an easy and efficient method for on-boarding devices.
• Dashboards and maps efficiently exhibit the entire topology and metrics.

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• SolarWinds ipMonitor tool is good for small to medium-size applications but it has some drawbacks for large and busy applications on busy servers.
• [It] may not able to provide accurate results for applications or servers which work on high loads and busy environments.
• In our Organization it has been observed on the Clustered environment with always-on technology, and iPMonitor cannot pinpoint the network traffic and performance which servers were switched between the servers. While switching between Active node to passive node in a clustered environment, it cannot pinpoint application web servers issues.

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• Configuring thresholds for your alerts can be a little cumbersome.
• Getting additional details onto the alerts is not as easy as it could be.
• You need to have two servers to run SolarWinds NPM, one for the service and a separate one for the database.

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• We currently use an outside service to monitor critical network nodes. We will do away with that service shortly.
• We no longer have to wait to hear from our users if there is a network device down. We will be proactively alerted and we can begin to remediate immediately helping to limit downtime.
• After initial setup and some tweaking, it requires little to no time to maintain.

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• SolarWinds vast array of solutions allows us to consolidate the total number of monitoring solutions, network management tools and performance monitoring tools into a single solution saving us money.
• By combining what were once many different vendor solutions for different usages into a single ecosystem we are able to quickly respond and determine the cause of network-related events.
• With a single ecosystem for network management and reporting, we are able to drastically reduce our overhead and standardize our alerting and monitoring solutions. Reducing white noise alerts and improving response time.

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