Overall Satisfaction with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor is our prime network management software for our NOC, Network Engineering & Operations. We use it twenty-four seven to manage F5 Load Balancers both in the cloud and on-premises, routers and switches, wireless infrastructure, firewall infrastructure, LAN and WAN, and all other network elements. SolarWinds is also our alerting tool (red, amber, green) threshold management and performance reporting.
- Alerting
- Reporting
- Baselining
- Wide vendor support of network elements
- Cloud and on-premise element support
- Should be easier to customize UI
- Integrate inline dynamic network diagramming from within the UI (create & maintain)
- Simplify top menu in UI
- Ability to proactively manage the network
- Better capacity planning
- Obtain a baseline of the network performance
- Visualize the network
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor was chosen at Finastra before I got here however I have weighed the value of SolarWinds against competitors such as Netcool, ManageEngine OP manager, Nagios and NetApp and Splunk to mention a few. SolarWinds really shine when you incorporate additional modules to NPM such as Network Configuration Manager, IPAM, Network Insights, Netflow, Network Traffic Analyzer, Server and Application Monitor and Database Manager. There are more competitive products and there will be more but at this point if you take all the SolarWinds modules into account, SolarWinds gives you the best value for the money for a true end-to-end NOC tool.
Do you think SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)'s feature set?
Yes
Did SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) again?
Yes