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Score 8.4 out of 10

Based on 12 reviews and ratings

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 537 reviews and ratings

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Feature Rating Comparison

NetBrain

SolarWinds NPM

Automated network device discovery

Network monitoring

Baseline threshold calculation

Alerts

Network capacity planning

Packet capture analysis

Network mapping

Customizable reports

Wireless infrastructure monitoring

Hardware health monitoring

Pros

Network Issues Troubleshooting
Visualizing the root cause using color coding
out of the box runbooks available

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Nikhil Kumar Sharma

Associate Consultant

HCL TechnologiesInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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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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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Not all devices are integrated with the same quality.
Not all steps are self-explaining.
The updates were difficult (but thanks to the help of support no real problem).

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Christoph Neulinger

Senior Network Specialist

Generali Shared Services S.c.a.r.l.Insurance, 10,001+ employees

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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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Development Manager

Carenet Health CareHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds NPM 9.0

Based on 23 answers

The entire IT staff relies on NPM in its daily operations. It would be impossible for us to maintain our level of service without it. If SolarWinds gets to proud of their product and begins to over charge for it, we would be forced to reconsider and use a different product. But as it stands it is worth the price to renew it.

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Systems and Security Administrator

Flathead CountyGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds NPM 9.7

Based on 17 answers

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is quite an extensive product, covering all our bases and requirements. There are a lot of customizable options and features which you can work with for their alerting which is really useful. I haven't found anything yet which I thought SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) could do, but it actually couldn't so overall it works nicely and does the job.

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Verified User

Employee in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds NPM 8.2

Based on 2 answers

Has never failed me

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Technician in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Performance

No score

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SolarWinds NPM 5.5

Based on 2 answers

Pages load slow, especially the bettors map. Could be that my server is old.

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds NPM 9.3

Based on 40 answers

In all of the times that we called support, someone at SolarWinds had the answer for us in a timely manner. Through thwack and other internet searching, we have been able to resolve all of our issues that arose to our satisfaction. The support staff have always been knowledgeable of their products or had a fellow support staff member to rely on to get the needed answers.

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IT Technician / Application Specialist

Casino FandangoEntertainment, 201-500 employees

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Online Training

No score

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SolarWinds NPM 6.4

Based on 1 answer

Would like an in person course

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds NPM 7.3

Based on 16 answers

Make sure your inventory is accurate. Stand up some virtual machines for testing prior to installation. Make sure your database and its credentials are setup. Think about things you want to monitor that may not be obvious - UPS units, Door hardware, PBX systems, Fabric Channel switches, firewalls, routers, switches. Try to setup SNMP on these devices and have an IP that you will assign to the new server. If you do that it will go well.

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Systems and Security Administrator

Flathead CountyGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

The others were cumbersome, slow and there is a huge learning curve for the installation, configuration and just daily monitoring. NetBrain was the easiest of all to setup then let it run and build our network and map it out. Once it was complete, we immediately identified several circuit issues that we were unaware of within our network. With the maps and information gained, we were able to present to [management] and prove a case that we needed larger circuits in several areas.

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Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 1001-5000 employees

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I haven't had a lot of experience with SEM, though the dashboard is very similar to NPM insofar as one can add, delete, and arrange the widgets to their liking. It helps that there are commonalities in the GUIs between the two applications. Kudos to the developers for making it relatively easy to switch between applications.

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Systems Engineer

BoeingDefense & Space, 10,001+ employees

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds NPM 7.3

Based on 1 answer

From the direction and information I have been given it is very flexible and scalelable

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Verified User

Technician in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Enhanced Network troubleshooting for our Network tea
Out of the box pre-build runbook reports with all required details
Additional cost for troubleshooting feature

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Nikhil Kumar Sharma

Associate Consultant

HCL TechnologiesInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Starting Price

$0 Starting Price

SolarWinds NPM Editions & Modules

Edition

NPM	$1,583¹

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