SolarWinds NPM review
December 01, 2018
SolarWinds NPM review
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
We use it within a single department to track uptime and inventory of about 4000 field devices on vast private WAN.
- Tracking network inventory and uptime.
- Extensibile to include other functions if needed.
- If something does not exist, the Online help can show you how to do it, and the system allows you to write a lot of different custom reports and even database calls.
- Some things do need to be set up custom. Even some things that have been asked for a many years.
- Many functions and very Cisco-centric. The industry has a wide array of network devices, and they are not all Cisco.
- Pricing can still be very high.
- With the vast network we have, it would be impossible to keep track of all the equipment any other way.
- May take an entire FTE to manage a SolarWinds installation.
We used Big Brother many years ago, and Nagios, but they did not last, and did not scale as well.