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Users have found great value in using SolarWinds Network Device Monitor for various network monitoring tasks. The product allows users to …
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What is SolarWinds Network Device Monitor?
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is a network diagnostic tool, from Austin-based SolarWinds.
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Users have found great value in using SolarWinds Network Device Monitor for various network monitoring tasks. The product allows users to continuously monitor and report on network device configuration adherence to hardened baseline standards, ensuring compliance with industry best practices. Through email alerts and integration with Jira, users can create tickets on the network team's service desk when a device becomes out of compliance, enabling prompt action and issue resolution.
The product also offers a central console that provides a single-screen view of all network devices, allowing users to easily monitor WAN links, network appliances, and measure performance and uptime. Users have appreciated the option to plot devices on a map, providing a visual representation of their network infrastructure. Additionally, the ability to group devices by site or type makes it convenient for users to quickly identify and address site-specific issues if needed.
For small businesses with low data generation, SolarWinds Network Device Monitor has proven to be a suitable tool. However, some users have reported issues when reaching the data limit after 12 months. Navigation becomes slower, and the database may require fixes and the implementation of a data retention policy. Despite these limitations, the product continues to provide valuable visibility into network resources, helping teams mitigate bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues effectively.
Easy Module Configuration: Many users have found the module configuration to be straightforward and user-friendly, even for those who are new to the software. The ease of setting up and configuring modules has been praised by multiple reviewers.
Flexible Device Grouping: Numerous reviewers appreciate the flexibility offered by the system in terms of grouping devices into different categories. This feature makes it easy for users to organize their network devices and reference reports efficiently. It provides a customizable and intuitive way to manage device groupings.
Customizable Reports: The ability to customize reports has received praise from many users. They find it beneficial as it allows them to generate tailored reports that provide valuable insights into network performance over specific time periods. Users can easily select relevant metrics, timeframes, and presentation formats according to their needs.
Sluggish and Non-Intuitive GUI: Several users have found the GUI to be sluggish and not very intuitive, suggesting that it could benefit from improvement and polishing. The slow performance in the GUI requires significant computing power, leading to frustration among some users.
Unstreamlined Creation of Compliance Policies: Some users have mentioned that the creation of compliance policies is not streamlined and lacks a smooth flow. This lack of efficiency can make the process more time-consuming and cumbersome for users.
Lack of Linux Version: A few users have expressed a desire for a better Linux version of the product. They believe that having a dedicated version for Linux would enhance compatibility and provide a smoother experience for Linux-based environments.
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We use SolarWinds to monitor over 250 locations and several thousand devices. We use the product to monitor our networks and produce a variety of actionable alerts for our internal IT staff. The visibility gained provides assurance regarding status and monitored events, reducing IT response time to events and MTTR.
- Monitoring Up/Down status
- Monitoring for key events
- Delivering visibility to our IT engineers, across the enterprise
- Performance can be slow
- Agents on hosts can be problematic (inexplicable high cpu usage)
- Interface/GUI could be improved
April 12, 2022
My review of SolarWinds NCM
We set up NCM as a way to continuously monitor and report on network device configuration adherence to hardened baselines standards. We also set up alerts to Jira via email such that if a device became out of compliance an email would be sent that would create a ticket on the network team's service desk. The ticket had the necessary detail to define the compliance violation and even suggest the remediation, this included config-line numbers and even some contextual information about where in the config the problem existed. The scope was all our network devices and it solved the business problem of network device compliance to hardening standards which was part of our ISO security program.
- Monitor for and record network device configuration changes.
- Allow for the creation, or modification, of hardening standards for multiple vendors' network devices.
- Automate the creation of alerts that can be sent to owners for correction of compliance violations.
- Allow you to organize a visualization of your network devices.
- The GUI is a bit sluggish in my opinion.
- The GUI is not very intuitive and could use some polishing.
- The creation of compliance policies needs to be streamlined and allow for better flow.
- A better Linux version would be nice.
April 12, 2022
Solarwinds unveiled what my network was doing.
The network is the highway to all things for the client server communication! If you want to create an app, it will more than likely touch the network, or live there. Whether it’s an sql query or a shared file to a mobile app, you need the network. So why don’t we monitor it? That was my question almost six years ago. Then came Solarwinds and the network device monitoring. From device health to resource utilization and trending. What bandwidth are going out to what port and the type of traffic if the device supports it. I know what is going in and out of the network devices, I can show you.
- Integrate with disparate and various hardware.
- View hardware details like fan, psu, cpu utilization.
- Pull configuration, with appropriate credentials, from network device.
- Modify configuration, with appropriate credentials, from network device.
- Move away from Windows as the underlying OS.
- Not much else.
- Really had to think about the first one.
April 11, 2022
Benefits of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
We wanted a product to scan our environment to determine all devices on the network, whilst also mapping out the connection paths. This product enabled us to view our network topology and all active/inactive ports on our switches. It also assisted with building a visual representation of our environment.
- Monitoring.
- Mapping.
- Configuring.
- Kicking off and monitoring network scans
I manage a large WAN with over 15 geographically dispersed sites, all within the same country. I primarily use this product to monitor my WAN links, network appliances and measure performance, uptime and for alerting. SolarWinds Network Device Monitor provides a central console for viewing all my devices on a single screen and I can also plot these devices on a map if needed. The system allows for devices to be grouped by site, type, etc. This allows me to see site issues at a high level if needed.
- Monitor device uptime
- Measure port utilization
- Provide usable reports on network performance over a time period
- Provide alerts via email, screen alerts, or SMS
- Provide flexible options for grouping devices into a category that is usable and easily referenced
- The device topology mapping could be improved
- Device configuration database could be included
- The system could include a TFTP server to allow device configs to be downloaded and saved
April 07, 2022
Good Network Performance Monitoring Tool
The tool is ok for small businesses and low amount of data generated. Once you reach the "limit" which was 12 months after the launch, we got the problems, navigation got slower, DB needed some fixes, data retention policy has to be implemented. Live data is not working as expected. The overall experience gets worst as and data continues to grow. NPM module helps to find network-related bottlenecks, easy to set up and gives a great picture. My experience is ok with this module.
- reports are customizable fully
- Module configuration is easy for even beginner users
- Alerts can be integrated into any chat-ops or incident management tools
- High-level view on the network, live data is not working as expected
- DB instance needs too many fixes as data grows
- The module has an even deeper analytics option
April 06, 2022
Monitor All My Network Devices Across The World
We have offices in many other locations around the world. The Network Device Monitor for SolarWinds works with our other SolarWinds Monitoring and Automation implementations to allow to quickly view and triage any outages or performance degradation. It also helps us keep track of devices that are in use or need to be decommissioned.
- Monitors our Meraki switches
- Monitors our AudioCodes telecom devices
- Logs performance metrics for our multiple sites across the world
- Performance in the GUI is very slow. It takes a lot of horsepower behind the scenes.
- Some of the menu and action items are hard to find. It's not incredibly intuitive.
- The dashboard should tie in to other products more seamlessly.
April 06, 2022
Excellent Solution for Network Performance monitoring
SolarWinds NPM, NCM, NTA, etc.. are all
Cognizant one of the preferred Monitoring tools and Many of our customers uses
this for network performance monitoring.
- Exceptionally good in Network devices performance and availability monitoring like CPU, Memory, Interfaces throughput, bandwidth utilization, etc...
- Broad network devices like Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Load Balancers, and vendors coverage like Cisco, Juniper, Avaya, Broadcom, EMC, Fortinet, etc...
- Good diagnostic and logging method
- I believe we should have more flexibility in Integration Options with event Management tools and ITSM tools other than SNOW
- I believe its high time for Solarwinds to come up with good Event Management or AIOPs capability that includes correlation, Anomaly detection, Predictive analysis, and RCA
- Quick response to the support tickets Irrespective of severity
We use it every day and heavily rely upon it for further insight and visibility into our network. It saves a lot of time diagnosing and recognizing what devices are causing bottlenecks or are having problems. Without it, you feel blind to what is going on in the network at a given time.
- Historic insight
- Alerting and notifcations
- Inventory management
- Visual statistics
- Some areas of the UI are confusing
- Needs powerful hardware
- Better explanations
September 02, 2016
Trusthworthly and Great Support
Today we use SolarWinds Network Device Monitor to proactively monitor our Network Infrastructure across 2 sites. We use it to Monitor PROD and DR sites. The main problem it helps us address is high availability and reacting in a timely manner to issues that may arise.
- Hardware health status
- Power supply status of the Network Devices
- Transmit/Discard errors
- High Latency
- Vulnerability Management
- Vulnerability Patching
- Hardware firmware recommendation