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Elegance and Efficiency In a Single Pane-of-Glass
November 13, 2019

Elegance and Efficiency In a Single Pane-of-Glass

Eric Engardio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager

We have a multi-site, multi-customer infrastructure and the centralized deployment capabilities of Network Configuration Manager have helped us tremendously. The fact that we can frequently push custom configurations to all of our customers from a centralized location has revolutionized the way we manage all of our customers. Thank you NCM team!
  • Centralized custom package deployment
  • Builds on WSUS' capabilities
  • Improves WSUS' limitations
  • The time it takes to do inventory patches is a little much.
  • The amount of system resources required is a little much.
  • Device inventory setup isn't very intuitive
  • Saves tons of time.
  • Scheduling app package deployments is really nice for our team so they have to work fewer hours.
  • Not having to solely rely on WSUS' feature set and Windows Updates for WSUS functionality has been a really nice thing to have.
Pros:
1. If you have a large multi-site IT infrastructure deployment, Solarwinds Patch Manager is great for centralized update management and takes a lot of the headache out of the process.
2. If you deploy a lot of custom-developed app packages, Patch Manager can push them out.

Cons:
1. If your infrastructure is smaller, it's not worth the cost.