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SolarWinds ipMonitor

Score7.5 out of 10

82 Reviews and Ratings

What is SolarWinds ipMonitor?

SolarWinds ipMonitor is a lightweight performance monitoring tool. It enables monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available.

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Easy to navigate GUI interface
Remediation Functionality
Network Discovery Wizard

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Top Performing Features

  • Alerts

    Alerts warning of critical infrastructure component failure can be sent via email or SMS or other channel

    Category average: 8.7

  • Network monitoring

    Monitoring network device availability and performance indicators like bandwidth, packet loss, CPU, WAN links, etc.

    Category average: 9.4

  • Automated network device discovery

    Automated network device discovery allows all devices in the environment to be found and tracked

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Network mapping

    Dynamic mapping tool allows the network topology to be mapped showing performance metrics, and link connection and utilization

    Category average: 8.7

  • Customizable reports

    Ability to schedule, generate, and deliver custom performance and availability reports

    Category average: 8

Awesome Software for Network Monitoring!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds ipMonitor is simple to administer and has a significant effect on the organization. It is simple to monitor the various IP addresses found inside the organization, and there is no need to do any kind of manual inspection. This tool is a game-changer for the IT sector. Downtime caused by failures may be mitigated using this solution's automatic remediation to restore services, which might include restarting servers, restoring files, and more.

Pros

  • Both network devices and servers may be easily located on the network.
  • It notifies the user whenever any network device undergoes a change in status.
  • Powerful reporting capabilities that provide vital data about your network's devices (uptime, space, utilization of resources on your devices)

Cons

  • This is a complex system that requires extensive testing and verification prior to deployment.
  • It is little costly as compared to other software's.

Most Important Features

  • The best feature of this software is it bandwidth monitoring feature.
  • Email Monitoring
  • Network Analysis

Return on Investment

  • It saves us a lot of time and improves the quality of our work.

Alternatives Considered

Datadog, Dynatrace and Microsoft System Center

Other Software Used

PagerDuty, xMatters, Microsoft System Center

ipMonitor is perfect for large scale monitoring tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have deployed all our EC2 instances on Amazon and ipMonitor was used to monitor all the instances. ipMonitor is a very responsive tool in terms of monitoring your resources. We had in-house and cloud-based resources which were monitored through ipMonitor and the best part was the responsiveness. We were monitoring the server health checks with storage and resources usage through ipMonitor.

Pros

  • Server Health Checks
  • Website responses
  • Applications monitoring

Cons

  • Costing
  • Scope of monitoring must be customised
  • SNMP configuration needs to be more simple

Most Important Features

  • Cloud monitoring
  • Can be used to monitor on-prem servers as well
  • Applications and websites monitoring

Return on Investment

  • Cost was much higher than the services
  • ipMonitor was well suited but the costing factor wasn't justified as there are tons of open-source tools available in the market with more functionalities
  • Alerts response was very good and ipMonitor served well with health checks.

Alternatives Considered

Zabbix, CSI WatchDOG and Amazon CloudWatch

Other Software Used

Zabbix, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Route 53

SolarWinds ipMonitor Review

Pros

  • network Monitroing
  • Servers and Services Monitoring
  • Alerting and reports
  • Modern Dashboard

Cons

  • More custom capabilities of monitoring
  • Detailed network monitoring such as for netflow
  • Integration with 3rd party tools
  • integration with native SolarWinds on-premises products

Return on Investment

  • Underlying monitoring infrastructure management is not required
  • Single place to monitor network, servers and services
  • native integration with SaaS based SolarWinds products

Alternatives Considered

ManageEngine OpManager, SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM) and Micro Focus Network Node Manager i (formerly HP Network Node Manager)

Other Software Used

SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM), DX Spectrum (formerly CA Spectrum), Micro Focus Network Node Manager i (formerly HP Network Node Manager)

Usability

Good network mapping software held back by some outdated design choices

Pros

  • Gives quite some in-depth information about computer performance (CPU, disk, memory)
  • Shows known issues with critical processes on desktops
  • Easy to use and set up

Cons

  • The user interface is quite outdated
  • Scans sometimes take a very long time
  • It has a bit too many configuration options

Return on Investment

  • It allows us to immediately detect rogue devices in our network
  • It allows us to verify computer performance with any problems our employees encounter

Alternatives Considered

Pulseway and Atera

Other Software Used

GitLab, Icinga, Nmap

Usability

Nice product to start SaaS journey with SolarWinds

Pros

  • Simple monitoring configuration wizard
  • Out of the box alerts
  • SaaS Service
  • Built in reports and dashboard

Cons

  • Lack of integrated visibility with other infrastructure since they are being monitored separately
  • Product uniqueness is missing
  • in-built integration with major services are required
  • cloud infra monitoring integration is missing

Return on Investment

  • SaaS based service helped to from infra management
  • Out of the box monitoring for infra and services
  • custom and inbuilt reporting and alerting feature
  • lack of integration with other monitoring product of SolarWinds is the only minus

Alternatives Considered

LogicMonitor, SevOne, OpsRamp and ScienceLogic SL1

Other Software Used

LogicMonitor, ScienceLogic SL1, OpsRamp

Usability