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SolarWinds | 2024.1Windows, Windows Server 2022 Base windows-server-2022-english-full-base-x86/x.x.x - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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SolarWinds Orion Netflow Traffic Analyzer is a must have tool.
What do you like best about the product?
What I love about NTA is that I was able to implement it quickly. It was easy to let novices or other technical personnel use the tool to get valuable information with out have to give them a lot of training, This tool is easy to learn how to use via it's intuitive user interface. It gives the ability to see what and how your network is being used.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have any major dislikes. I have been using NTA for over 10 years, I have been able to work with this tool as it has evolved and improved over that time. It is an integrated part of our network management strategy. I can't imagine not having access to this tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are continually using this tool to measure how the network is being used, I have created a number of reports that show utilization of applications and conversations, that used to track the overall use of the network and is reported monthly to upper management.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try the evaluation, In one month you you see the benefits of this tool. I know there are other tools being offered from other vendors. I have looked at them, Nothing I have found can compare to NTA.
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Server and Application Monitor review by Naren
What do you like best about the product?
I liked that with the SAM templates we can monitor the appications like AD, DNS, DHCP, etc. We can also monitor the generic Windows services as well. It helps to monitor the applications to avoid down time and speed up the resolution as well. The new feature AppStack introduced and help you to look at the issues directly which shows in Red Color. When you hover the mouse point, you can see the health of the server or resource or application.
What do you dislike about the product?
We exerienced some of the parameters were not available like, mails queue count. It utilizes more resources, if we assign to more number of devices and forget to remove them, when they are not in use.
For agentless monitoring services, we need to provide the WMI credentials to connect to the server
A better application monitoring should be provided for Exchange, IIS and SQL.
For agentless monitoring services, we need to provide the WMI credentials to connect to the server
A better application monitoring should be provided for Exchange, IIS and SQL.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of windows services, CPU and Memory, etc.
I see the main benefits as Proactive alerting, avoid down time, speed up troubleshooting, proactive alerting, access to detailed performance metrics
Easy to Configure and easy to use the templates
I see the main benefits as Proactive alerting, avoid down time, speed up troubleshooting, proactive alerting, access to detailed performance metrics
Easy to Configure and easy to use the templates
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The Server and Application Monitor (SAM) module is easy to configure and use. I would recommend that it is best for Windows servers. You can do medium level monitoring for Exchange, IIS and SQL.
Solarwinds SAM saved us hundreds of thousands!
What do you like best about the product?
ease of use and the flexibility to get most anything accomplished. There are few barriers from the software.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Linux and AIX monitoring is a bit harder if you are not familiar with the OS, although the new agents make this somewhat better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We started monitoring our critical applications, services and processes, but over time we started monitoring items that with the old system we couldnt afford to monitor. Today we monitor over 9000 applications compared to 250 with our old solution.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
download and play with it, youll find its very easy
Monitoring services, directories,files,event etc. done with ease
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the Real-Time Event Log Viewer, Service Control Manager, Real-Time Processor Explorer, Exchange module, Active Directory module and all the AppInsight modules.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like the ability to change gauges and remove columns and go to a blank canvas
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring services, directories, SQL, IIS and events. We are able to identify problems proactively before an application has problems or goes down. Our downtime for applications have gone down and uptime has gone up since we've starting monitoring these elements.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's simple, you need an IP address and credentials to authenticate with then the rest is easy
Solarwinds SAM reivew
What do you like best about the product?
The flexibility it gives you to monitor different aspects of your environment such as websites, certificates, Exchange and many others.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the application templates can use better instructions on how to implement them, or possibility give some examples as to how they can be implemented.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use this product to monitor services on various application, we have eliminated the issue of SSL certs expiring on our websites when we setup SSL monitors in SAM.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Document the app templates better and provide step by step configurations to help people use them.
Great for Monitoring all your applications
What do you like best about the product?
I am able to setup custom monitors to alert me if there are issues with my applications
What do you dislike about the product?
The only think i have run into an issue with (not really a dislike) is adding applications to monitor each part of the application being monitored is using what solarwinds calls elements in doing this we have had to purchase unlimited license. It is understandable they had to setup their pricing somehow though
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to get alerted when an application is down and be able to resolve the issue by restarting a service if it stops right in the SAM in solarwinds
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Using this has minimized our outages because we get notified when issues happen usually it is before we get notified by our internal users that there is an issue.
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
What do you like best about the product?
It covers a wide variety of application monitors.
What do you dislike about the product?
SolarWinds' tech support is horrid. You are expected to use the Thwack community to solve problems, but you will regularly find your question asked 7 years ago and never answered.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Just trying to maintain a vigilant watch on specific server performance.
SAM - A must have for IT pro's
What do you like best about the product?
I really like the application health overview on the main SAM page, the APP Stack is a wonderful addition. The App insight for SQL and IIS is a game changer as well and we utilize it daily.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is not much to dislike. I wish I could afford a larger license to be able to monitor every application with SAM
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring SAP applications was a huge issue for us, we were able to use SAM to give us all the information we need.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a mandatory product. I would recommend all companies to utilize SAM for internal use.
Flexibility meets demand
What do you like best about the product?
With SAM the Orion platform really feels like a Swiss Army knife. There is so much flexibility and the options are nearly limitless. It is very rare when I come across something I cannot monitor effectively.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would like to see a way to define a service, and add subsets of servers, applications, components etc. Critical KPIs that make up the service. I know you can kind of do this with Groups today, but it's not quite the same and the Availability reporting with Groups isn't nearly as good as what we can get with SAM. So getting that same functionality with SAM would be great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of Server and Virtual infrastructure. I'm now monitoring Office 365 products as well, leveraging the MS API and powershell capabilities of SAM. This allows us to alert on the Office 365 products, when currently there isn't a native solution for alerts (except SMS) from Microsoft.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great Product that can fill many many gaps with all the flexibility it can offer. This product however, is not an APM so do not look for it to solve that issue.
Why the network is slow?
What do you like best about the product?
A quick NTA glance I can pin point why the network is slow and who is the culprit
What do you dislike about the product?
Slow to access the NTA, extra server for database.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Go ahead blame the network for the latency. Just a quick NTA glance I can pin point why the network is slow and who is the culprit
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you already have NPM, NTA is no brainer. NTA can be right on the desktop with NPM
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