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https://dudodiprj2sv7.cloudfront.net/product-logos/sf/fY/UWRMK8SAHSR2.PNGSolarWindsSAM oh SAM, go get SAM to save your BACON2019-01-22T19:43:14.341ZWe use SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor across the whole environment. I have triggered alerts notifying when applications are down or have exceeded custom defined thresholds. We monitor individual applications via real time process monitor. I would be dead in the water without this great tool running. We have done nothing but improve performance since the implementation of the SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor.,Triggered Alerts
Custom Thresholds
Integration with IIS, Exchange, Active Directory out of the box!
Top 10 Lists - Monitored,
Integrationg with Orion,I would like to see SolarWinds Server & Application monitor have 2 modes or themes available; day time or what you currently have available. I would like to see a second option available, a dark theme.
I would like to see SolarWinds Server & Application monitor to allow for unlimited nodes and applications to be monitored with a base license. The end user is responsible for resources!
I would like to see SolarWinds Server & Application monitor have additional configuration features available to the end user on the Settings page. For example, SMTP configuration specifically for SAM.,10,SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor has been designed to monitor the performance and availability of on-premises, hosted, and cloud infrastructure with associated applications, all from a single tool. This has not really impacted my organization quite yet. It is great news, as my organization will definitely benefit from the services in the future when we do start using resources in "the cloud". I can't imagine not having visibility into performance now that I am used to the great service. How do you gage THE CLOUD?,We have definitely benefited from having SAM and Virtualization Manger running in the same environment. I have a full view of all resources running and the alerts are just a little bit different on what the tools are looking at... for example, I have SAM looking at the health of the application and VM looking at the storage, CPU, and other resources. The two tools together, you can't go wrong!,My organization has definitely benefited from the capabilities SolarWinds has developed. We are so much more responsible to our applications, hardware and software. The benefits of SolarWinds Server & Application monitor along with the other great tools, have totally outweigh the cost! I am proud of my environment and the performance that we have achieved. It was a long road. The SolarWinds reporting allowed me to speak in a normal business tone instead of with passion and anger! You don't have to say much, the reports say the good, bad, and ugly!,SolarWinds Server & Application monitor has definitely paid for itself. The renewals for maintenance are no longer a conversation, as management obviously understands the value of the relationship to their success!
SolarWinds Server & Application monitor has allowed my team to deep dive into issues. We have made a tremendous jump in up time and overall performance.,Jennifer AguilarNo nonsense review of SolarWinds2018-12-21T17:06:51.821ZSolarWinds is used as an operations alerting center for our networks. We have 70 branches across 12 states. With SolarWinds, we can see the health of our network and know when a problem arrives and can quickly work on resolving the issues.,Monitor voice network and quality
Monitor exchange databases
Monitor network connectivity
Server uptime,The ability to remove modules without having to rebuild the whole system. The recent test of WPM has shown that when using the trial version it becomes embedded and difficult to remove all parts
The requirement for 3.5 dot net. The system is old and should be updated.
I like the SolarWinds help group, but sometimes you don’t get replies for weeks regarding some of the more obscure problems. Easier to open tickets than have to wait for help from others.,9,SolarWinds has been the single best monitoring tool in our companies arsenal. It has impacted every part of our IT department from help desk support to database and network engineers. Each has alerting rules that target our key infrastructure and can alert them in minutes of problems.,We tend to grow every quarter and the complexity of our network shows this. The ability to automate the discovery has helped to catch every change and easily update our alerting rules and maps.,We have several servers and level of servers being monitored. From developing applications servers to production servers. Each requires different alerting rules. The ability to define the different rules easily and across varies, VM makes this task simple. The engineers responsible for each level can monitor the things most important to them and quickly respond when they have problems. One recent example is related to exchange database monitoring. We run four exchange servers and have them load balanced for best use. We were alerted to a single database that was corrupted and was able to quickly rebuild the single affected database before the company users noticed.,The monitoring tools have grown by 50% in the last 3 years. We have increased our original network monitoring to include virtual servers, Cisco voice network quality manager, and server application management to name a few.
We have been able to alert our network carriers before they can see the problem. This has helped our uptime connectivity by being proactive and not waiting for an outage to occur.
One of the unexpected benefits is UPS monitoring at every location. We have set up alerts to notify us of aging UPS devices so we can swap them out before a power outage occurs and we find out too late and cannot handle the loads.,LiveActionstephen schleeperSolarWinds alerts free up our time from constant reporting.2018-11-18T01:25:49.383ZWe currently use SolarWinds as an uptime monitor as well as software configuration. It also serves as the main source of reporting on disk space and network utilization for our organization. We use it in combination with SCCM and ServiceNow to be able to prove the growing needs of our department and the current issues that our systems teams need to address.,Uptime reporting
Memory Utilization reporting
CPU Utilization reporting
Managing and sending alerts,Adding servers is not as intuitive as I'd like. It seems like there are multiple places to add, but only one method is correct.
There's a learning curve for new users to have to get past in understanding the administrative portions.
Sleeping email alerts for times during maintenance windows is not something we have gotten fully worked out.,7,Reporting to the upper level management team and to the business side of our company has become a lot easier in using the reporting between SCCM and SolarWinds. It also has made patching windows far easier to maintain as all other teams can check to see when machines are restarted and back up from the patching and do not have to use a separate tool.,Between our various tools, SolarWinds tends to be the bottom line on our discoveries that we check. We usually compare the discoveries made in SolarWinds to other tools to see if the other tools at our disposable are picking up the machines we need. SolarWinds tends to be the one that pulls in the most systems.,CPU utilization, disk space, and memory utilization were always hard to report to our teams so that the server maintenance team could clear issues away and have full information on what needed work. They now receive the alerts to ensure they have the information at their disposal and no longer have any excuse to not fix these problems before they cause more issues.,Reporting has been easier and more consistent.
Alerting is allowing our teams to always have the information they need for remediations.
SolarWinds has a lot of capabilities other tools do as well, but it allows us to cross-check our information from other programs as well.Kay PeekSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor perfect for monitoring applications and servers for issues2018-11-06T18:27:48.237ZWe use SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to monitor all of our servers and the applications they run. I will let us know if there is an error with any application we have running and we can set up alerts to notify us that there is an issue via email and MMS message with the details we set up in the alert.,It has some out of the box commonly used application monitors for Windows
It has some out of the box commonly used application monitors for Linux
You can set up custom application monitors for Windows systems
You can set up custom application monitors for Linux systems,I wish there was more out of the box Linux application monitors
I wish it could communicate with TR-069 for monitoring our LTE,9,We mostly have on-premises server systems. We also sell cloud environment for our customers and monitor that as well for issues. We also monitor our customers modems and phone equipment for issues and when they go down. We often know about an issue before they do and are already troubleshooting to resolve issues.,At this time we do not use the automated discovery function of Solarwinds Server & Application Manager,We have used this function to tweak our performance required systems onto our Fastest storage and been able to reclaim some unused CPU and RAM from other machines.,Recently we have put in place an alert to notify us when a user gets locked out. This in turn tells us they are locked out before they usually even know it and we can quickly unlock them for less downtime.
Our chat in the company often will not start all services after updates on a server we set up a notification on that tells us that services are not running allowing us to get it up and working before users even come in for work.
Our dialer also frequently will not start services after server updates. We setup a notification to alert us when this happens so that we can fix the issue before our users that use the dialer even know there is a problem preventing downtime.,,We use it to monitor all our applications for issues
We use it to monitor all our servers for updates needed
We monitor all our servers for certificates that are about to expire
We monitor all our servers for low disk space
We set up alerts for critical issues on our applications and server issues,Product Features
Product Usability
Prior Experience with the Product
Vendor Reputation
Existing Relationship with the Vendor,9,20,2,Set up alerts to notify us when users get locked out during normal business hours. This cuts down on calls.
Use it to monitor our certificate expire dates so we can stay ahead and not have downtime on our websites due to certificates expiring
Use it to monitor updates that need to be deployed on our critical servers. this way we can see if we need to plan maintenance for update installation,As we get more and more Linux servers we will be able to monitor processes on those systems.
We could monitor for excessive password changes in the environment to see if there has been a breach.,9,SharePoint Designer, Juniper Ethernet Switches, Solarwinds Database Performance Analyzer for SQL Server, Unitrends Recovery Series Backup Appliance, Veeam Backup & Replication, WatchGuard XTM - Discontinued Product,No,I do not think I would change anything we have not had really any issues with the product as well as when we did support has gone as far as to get their engineers on the phone for a call to figure out the best way to monitor a solution we have in place.,No,10,No,We were trying to monitor our LTE wireless which does not communicate through SNMP. We set up a call with our LTE provider and SolarWinds to be able to monitor this system. They were able to provide 3 or more different ways to monitor the system when they got their engineers on the phone with us.,Updating the software was very easy and they went as far as to update all the other products at the same time now so its less time consuming
Easy to set up and you can scan your systems for applications that are running on servers and SAM will auto monitor them with default out of the box selection.,Monitoring Linux systems can be difficult but that may be because i do not have much experience in linux systemsRyhlen SchoeberlSolarWinds is an interesting system for keeping the place from burning down.2018-10-19T15:41:37.714ZWe are using the server and application monitor to ensure high performance to our end users. We utilize it to track down performance issues, hardware issues and network issues before the users are able to see the issue. Our end users are very sensitive to performance slowdowns, and with our VDI infrastructure, if one user sees an issue, they all do.,In depth monitoring. You can monitor practically any portion of a virtual or physical server.
Easy to read front page. Once the front page is configured, broad issues can be found early for further investigation.
Constant updates. New updates are always available for whatever you are monitoring.,Price. It's a good product, but they know it.
Complications. It can be intense to learn every nook and cranny of the product to get the most out of it.
Speed. While we do not have it running on the fastest hardware, it can be laggy.,7,We are only using on-prem systems at this time. While the features and capability of monitoring hosting and cloud technology is appreciated, at this time, we are not using it.,We have benefited, as it's pointed out several issues with performance that we'd have either never noticed, or would have had to dig very deep to find. Discovery is less optimal, but I don't believe it's SolarWinds' fault. I believe that there is little unification between the different platforms, which makes discovery needlessly difficult.,We have benefitted, as we have an environment with several vendor types spread across multiple sites. Since each vendor has it's own monitoring solution, it's very beneficial to be able to look into the full stack to determine the issue. Without that capability, finding the problem would have been nearly impossible.,It's difficult to put into numbers, as the network admin.,vRealize OperationsBrandon Koehler
Windows
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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