SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds ARM is an essential solutions to any organization, granting access rights, permissions, and degranting rights for the end users. Auditing and provisioning users rights and permissions to manage and control who can access which folder or file and prevent uauthorized access. SolarWinds ARM can integrate with AD active and AD Azure.

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds ARM is best used for large organiziation with users exceeding 1000 users or employee with varius roles and permissions. Controll access rights and prevening data leakes. Auditing and monitoring users access to see if users are accessing data that they are not supposed to see. Reporting when users rights are expired and degrant permissions.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is a large part of our user access monthly reporting review meetings, where we validate user onboards/offboards and confirm that the work has been completed accurately. It also helps us validate that no access changes have been made in error or without approval. Reports are easy to manage in an excel format across multiple teams in our organization.

Likelihood to Recommend

uploading the template to make updates/changes to users access is a great tool, quick and easy to use.

The monitoring tool is less used, as generally there are not many scenarios where someone is trying to gain access that shouldn't have access already - There are other tools already in place to prevent users from getting to this point.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are new to ARM and already have other SolarWinds products that we use. So far it has been working well for our needs. We are still trying to set up the SMTP portion to get automated AD reports via email. It has also helped immensely in helping us discover where the nested shares are in our clients' folder structure systems. One suggestion would be to offer some training during the implementation process. While the application is quite intuitive, it would add to a better implementation experience.

Likelihood to Recommend

Overall, Solar Winds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is reliable and easy to use once you figure out how to get what you want from the tool. They have both a client and web version of the tool that can be used. Each one has different functionality so just have to remember where to go to do the task you want. We are still early in our usage, but so far it seems to be working well!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To be able to manage and report file server permissions. And also I would like to automate AD user account settings.

Likelihood to Recommend

I couldn't do what I was exactly expecting from this solution. And local partners in Turkiye are not experienced and knowledgeable enough. Without support from SolarWinds and videos online they can't even install software!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds ARM is used for the self service platform and the automation of access rights on File Server.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for automation and the API, where you can integrate it with other products.

Self service is great via the web interface, but it lacks the ability to differentiate between departmental folders, if they are set at different levels - Visibility is set to the same level, so if your organization has a different folder structure for a department, then it won't work properly.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Managing and auditing access rights in our organization with SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) it's simply easier, much faster, and also safe!

Likelihood to Recommend

it does the job well but could be cheaper... maybe a licensing based on usage could make more sense.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We make use of Access Rights Manager in our organization for the provisioning of new user accounts, determining folder permissions for all our shared files/folders on our file/print server, as well as administration for our various security/distribution groups (for example listing all groups which are empty) This has made the tasks of creating new user accounts or group management so much easier, and less time-consuming.

Likelihood to Recommend

The main benefit we found was with user account creation. Previously this was a much longer process as the account would have to be added to security groups manually, or information regarding job titles, managers, etc would all need to be entered manually. Now with ARM, we have set up templates for all our new users. This means we've cut down on the user account creation time as the templates pre-populate all the correct information specific to that user account.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We purchased SolarWinds ARM when it was owned by 8Man. We bought it as we were commencing a records management project and it was excellent for reporting on the file permissions assigned to users and groups and for AD management. It worked very well initially and we had excellent support from 8Man.

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds [Access Rights Manager] (ARM) is well suited to our environment as we still have unstructured data and we are actively working on a project to tighten up access to data. It works very well as an AD management tool which we want to expand the use of. It is a very good tool, but it is constantly breaking on us and it takes ages to get it resolved.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using ARM to manage our Active Directory and File services. In addition too that we periodically need our users to reevaluate the access permissions on their resources, especially team leaders or managers. It is our main tool to make changes in the AD (all fileserver permissions are managed by security groups in the AD). One important feature is the documentation of who made what. We must make annual reports about our work and this documentation to a public institution.

Likelihood to Recommend

It [SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)] is well suited for small to medium sized companies who want to enhance and ease up their daily work. As well as it is suited for organized structures, it has its problems with very complex environments. For example, if you are working with direct and multiple permissions instead of having more granular group based permissions.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is used throughout our organisation to manage and inspect access rights to most of the online services we use and to restrict access to only those tools/folders each individual user needs. I use it to visualize all permissions and access to ensure we adhere to the principle of least privileges.

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is ideal for companies using Active Directory. It allows you to manage all employees' permissions from one location. Besides that, it is also great for cybersecurity experts to visualize all the permissions within the company, to audit them and make sure no one has too many permissions. Considering the scope of the applications, it would be most-suited for medium to large companies.