SolarWinds NPM Review
December 01, 2019
SolarWinds NPM Review
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
SolarWinds is used to monitor the OT side of the network. This includes switches, virtual environment (servers and workstations), RTU's, PCL's, etc across many locations. It monitors devices via SNMP and alerts on issues accordingly. It allows us to do reporting on all our devices and look for historical trends. We can be proactive in the event of issues as we get alerted by SolarWinds rather than users.
- Ease of installation and monitoring.
- The customizability of alerts and reports let you design what you're looking for.
- The bonus of NetPath and PerfStack makes issues that much easier again to work out where the problem may be.
- The upgrade of how syslogs are handled in the GUI needs more improvement to match the old version it replaced.
- Without SolarWinds, you really have no idea of what's going on in your network. So in times of issues, you have no idea where to start in certain situations.
- Network monitoring is a must! You can never be proactive unless you have the right tools.