Solid product for simpler monitoring tasks
February 04, 2019
Solid product for simpler monitoring tasks
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds ipMonitor
Department level. Monitoring about 80 servers. Configured to monitor ping, selected services start/stop, CPU and RAM levels, notify engineers of trouble or impending trouble.
- Monitoring of server basic status items like ping, memory and CPU levels. Configuring alerts based on event log event IDs. If you don't need the advanced features of some other monitoring systems, ipMonitor is much simpler to configure and use.
- Configuration is simple and easy, menus are clear and simple to follow. Alerting is straightforward to configure also.
- Switched to Idera because of a need in the department for more advanced features such as triggering scripts for certain events. The downside is it is much more complex to configure and use.
- Identifying trouble areas (high CPU or RAM) and heading off situations before they become incidents that impact users.
- Faster notification of outages and downtime on servers, enabling faster resolution.
Used ipMonitor for 7 years. Switched recently to Idera because of larger feature set and monitoring capabilities not available on IPmonitor. For tasks that both products can do, I still prefer IPmonitor.