Solarwinds within Education
October 15, 2018

Solarwinds within Education

Kenneth Englehart | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

NPM is used by the Technology Department to monitor our infrastructure, I need to know in advance if a switch is having hardware or network traffic issues. Our facilities manager also uses it to monitor power outages throughout the district.
  • Real-time monitoring of crucial network areas.
  • Network mapping of our district which extends over a 20-mile radius.
  • Server analysis - the majority of our servers are virtual, this helps us keep up with deploying server resources.
  • I would like to see an option to embed switch configuration within the mapping tools.
  • Positive. Education has very limited funds, so every purchase we make has to justified.
Well suited for any organization with extended infrastructure and that lacks staffing.

SolarWinds NPM Feature Ratings

Automated network device discovery
8
Network monitoring
10
Baseline threshold calculation
10
Alerts
10
Network capacity planning
10
Packet capture analysis
10
Network mapping
10
Customizable reports
8
Hardware health monitoring
10