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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Based on 541 reviews and ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Oracle Enterprise Manager
OEM is very well suited for all Oracle products, especially Oracle databases and Exadata machines; even not Oracle hardware, it is very good and displaying high level details.OEM is not well suited for older hardware vendors like AIX, HP-UX, DEC/Digital, Microsoft (sql server). This is a big negative as most large companies have a heterogeneous environment with many different vendor hardware and (database) software products.
DBA
Duquesne Light CompanyUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor can be used for any sort of servers or application monitoring such as Windows, Linux, Unix, AIX etc it also do not have any dependency on on-premises, google cloud, AWS or azure. All SAM does is to use the appropriate monitoring method having all pre-requisites in place already.
Associate Consultant
HCL TechnologiesInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Monitoring Tasks
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.7
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Remote monitoring
Oracle Enterprise Manager
9.1
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Network device monitoring
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.6
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Multiple Server Monitoring
Oracle Enterprise Manager
9.3
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Multi-device monitoring
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.9
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Automated alerts and notifications
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.5
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Management Tasks
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.8
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Patch Management
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.3
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Service configuration management
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.8
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Software and hardware inventory
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.9
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Policy-based automation
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.1
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Reporting
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.1
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Performance data reports
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.2
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Customizable reporting
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.9
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Data visualization
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.7
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Risk analysis
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.6
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Security
Oracle Enterprise Manager
7.5
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Data backup and recovery
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.3
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Antivirus and malware management
Oracle Enterprise Manager
6.2
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Adinistraor access control
Oracle Enterprise Manager
8.0
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
—
Application Performance Management
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.1
Application monitoring
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.6
Database monitoring
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.0
Threshold alerts
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.5
Predictive capabilities
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
7.7
Application performance management console
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.1
Collaboration tools
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
7.2
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
7.9
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
7.4
Virtualization monitoring
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.3
Server availability and performance monitoring
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
9.1
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.5
IT Asset Discovery
Oracle Enterprise Manager
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.3
Pros
Oracle Enterprise Manager
- Database status. Being able to see which databases are up/down, at a glance, allows us to quickly react to issues.
- Reporting. We report on last backups, daily status, a host of metrics, and compliance levels of all our databases. With reporting we come into the office with a set of "status" reports and we know instantly if a database has issues.
- Metrics. We have a number of KPI's and SLA's we need to meet. Metrics applied to the databases allow us to stay on top of those requirements as well as fix common issues without a DBA needing to log in to assess the issue.
Database Administrator III
PacifiCorpUtilities, 5001-10,000 employees
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps monitor the status or some of our most important applications. It has the capability of letting us know when an application goes down which helps us fix the issue faster.
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps monitor the resources on servers. By knowing the key components of the server such as CPU, RAM, and storage, we can forecast whether we need to increase or decrease resources on any server.
- SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps us by sending real time alerts when issues occur related to servers that we are monitoring.
IT Network Specialist
Central Electric Power CooperativeUtilities, 51-200 employees
Cons
Oracle Enterprise Manager
- We also use OEM to monitor SQL Server. However, OEM only provided limited features for SQL Server. It would be nice if we can schedule backup jobs for SQL Server in OEM.
- The ability to run SQL queries. You can't run queries in OEM. I have to go to SQL Developer or SQL PLUS to run. queries.

Verified User
Consultant in Research & Development
Research Company, 10,001+ employeesSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- The new node based licensing model makes it difficult to justify the price for nodes that only utilize a few components.
- Script results need to be a statistic. It would be a lot more useful if we could populate a table of results, including alpha-numeric strings, boolean, etc.
- A lot of the AppInsight components cannot be disabled. You have to either use the whole template or nothing.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employeesLikelihood to Renew
Oracle Enterprise Manager
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 8.5
Based on 11 answers
I love the product and the alerts are within the millisecond, which can be the difference between life and death in some cases. As a beginner user, it was difficult getting around or add new hosts to monitor. However, after reading guides an familiarizing myself with the product, I realized how powerful and extremely useful this product. The reason I don't give a 10 is the learning curve.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employeesUsability
Oracle Enterprise Manager
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 8.7
Based on 30 answers
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is quite easy to use and super versatile. It allows you to do just about anything you can through premade templates or through scripting. You can use an agent on the servers if you want to, or you can monitor through WMI or SNMP credentials. You can customize thresholds for alerting quickly, and you can configure alerts to be as complex or as simple as you want.
IT Analyst
Regions BankBanking, 5001-10,000 employees
Reliability and Availability
Oracle Enterprise Manager
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6
Based on 2 answers
I only use dpa
Programmer Analyst
USDHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Performance
Oracle Enterprise Manager
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6
Based on 2 answers
Takes time to load

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Law Practice Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
Oracle Enterprise Manager
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 8.4
Based on 20 answers
I think there was only a couple times I had to open a support case for SAM and one time they got multiple engineers on the phone to get a better idea what I was trying to monitor and was able to point me in the best direction to monitor that system.
System Administrator
Vast BroadbandTelecommunications, 201-500 employees
Online Training
Oracle Enterprise Manager
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.5
Based on 1 answer
It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
Programmer Analyst
USDHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Implementation Rating
Oracle Enterprise Manager
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6
Based on 3 answers
Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Law Practice Company, 201-500 employeesAlternatives Considered
Oracle Enterprise Manager
Toad for Oracle is more suited for individual users who have a strong focus on database development, and it is not as comprehensive as Oracle Enterprise Manager. While it is quite decent in logical database layer tasks, such as schema objects and SQL, it lacks visibility into host level and I/O layer performance stats.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Internet Company, 201-500 employeesSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
We selected SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor over AppDynamics because SolarWinds product suited our needs better. We needed better infrastructure monitoring and internal application monitoring brought from other vendors. If we wanted to monitor an application that was being developed by our company and we needed to track every transaction of it then we would have gone for AppDynamics, but SolarWinds was a better fit for our use case.
Systems Engineer
InfosysComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
Scalability
Oracle Enterprise Manager
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6
Based on 2 answers
It is hard to find the recommended SQL setup and convince others that is the way you should configure the server when you set it up
Programmer Analyst
USDHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
Oracle Enterprise Manager
- When we were using Oracle GoldenGate, it made our life easy in terms of visually seeing the configuration and identifying issues easily
- It also makes ASM management very easy instead of doing it in the command line
- Creating policies and implementing certain standard configurations across all the databases is easy

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Entertainment Company, 1001-5000 employeesSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- SolarWinds has helped to improve proactive resolution or mitigation of application issues. This has often resulted in issues fixed before customers were aware of the problem.
- SolarWinds has provided valuable information when troubleshooting issues to meet Service Level Agreements.
- SolarWinds has helped get the correct team working on issues.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employeesScreenshots
Oracle Enterprise Manager
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Oracle Enterprise Manager
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No