Atera - The RMM tool for the Present and Future
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Atera is an RMM tool that is used for remote monitoring and management. In our organization, we use Atera for monitoring and management both purposes. We use Atera to monitor our complete infrastructure from Servers, end-user devices, appliances, network devices and all other SNMP devices. The real time monitoring help us to track the devices that are going unplanned offline and we can take action on that basis. Apart from these status, we can monitor the other utilization of servers such as CPU, memory, and hard disk and can take action accordingly. In the management part, Atera is doing well as we can see and manage all other components. We can see device IP address, last login, last logged in user, last reboot time, last seen and other things and can take action accordingly. We are also managing our patch management from Atera. Atera is capable enough to handle the patches for Windows, Linux and Mac OS devices. We can also patch the third party applications from Atera and we are going to in our organization.
Pros
- Atera is doing good in the monitoring part as it is monitoring our complete infrastructure from the network to servers and also the end user devices.
- Atera is good in the patching part as it is patching our Windows and Linux servers, end-user Windows systems, and third-party applications.
- Atera is good in the automation process, and we can plan the execution of any task and schedule it. We have a lot of options here from CMD to PowerShell.
- The Inventory part is also good, as we can see and download the Software and Hardware inventory from Atera. It will provide the details of all hardware and software, from OS details to applications.
Cons
- Atera is good at a lot of things, but there are chances for improvement. In the patching part, it has a lot of issues with the 3rd party application patching as it uses Chocolatey for Windows applications and sometimes it fails to update a lot of application.
- We can transfer files from our admin portal to any device at one time, but we cannot transfer files to multiple devices at once.
- We cannot install any exe/application from our side. We can only install the applications on end devices that are available in the Atera inventory.
- They have hardware and software inventory, but are not good at the asset management field.
Likelihood to Recommend
Atera is doing well in the monitoring part as it is informing the real time ping of running devices and if any device goes down, it is informing us on the real time.
It is helping us to monitor the last reboot status, current logged in users, time zone, IP addresses and other things so that we can track our end devices status.
In the patching part Atera is pathing our all devices with the notification stating user to restart device at their convenient time. It is also patching our third party applications.
It is good in installing and uninstalling of the third party application but limited to availability in the Atera inventory.
Atera is not good in some parts such as in the patching part of applications, sometime it fails to update all 3rd party applications that were not installed via Atera.
It is not good if you have to transfer a file to multiple systems at the same time.
