We performed a comparison between ManageEngine ADManager Plus and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Active Directory Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Makes it easy to administer your active directory."
"Almost every feature of the solution is valuable to me. This includes the importing and exporting to the active directory from the CSC firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the dashboard. They allow me to see everything in real-time and drill down and pick and choose versus running scripts."
"Simple with good automation."
"The solution provides oversight, reports, and logs that are easy to understand."
"It makes our job easier, especially for managing data for a bulk of users."
"The scalability is also good. ADManager Plus is being used by seven to eight system administrators right now, and it has been working fine."
"It is a stable solution."
"The solution is great for monitoring. If something is going wrong, we can immediately find the root cause."
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."
"I find it to be a strong product suite, particularly when you need a comprehensive monitoring tool."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"Lacks sufficient integration with management tools."
"The solution should be made tablet friendly because it works well on iPhones and Android phones, but does not work on tablets."
"Other products have more flexibility and integration in managing identities."
"The solution is very complex, especially when there's an active directory of more than 1,000 users, which makes it hard to administrate. They need to improve the management of the administrative process."
"It would be nice if the solution offered some sort of brochure with some high-level information that would help sell it to management. If they had details around how much time it saves an engineer, for example, to show the ROI, it would be helpful."
"I think the cost of this product is a little higher than I would expect."
"This solution is not stable, it wasted my time."
"The number of main controllers affects the database for creating the hardware specs."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"Solarwinds should come up the same monitoring system for other certificate expiration alert apart from SSL."
"I think they need to make reporting easier and more simple & dynamic."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"There is one feature that is a report writer. And they are currently trying to take it out from being a stand-alone application and integrating to the web. This doesn't give us the flexibility and it doesn't expand what we can get when it comes to reporting. So, putting it on the web is going to make it difficult to get some information. Leaving it where it is now will help us a lot."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"The tool's AppStack needs to improve in the storage monitoring part. It should also include an analytics and recommendation approach. If I have found a fault in a server or application, I would like to know what caused it and how do I recover from it."
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ManageEngine ADManager Plus is ranked 1st in Active Directory Management with 13 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 8th in Active Directory Management with 38 reviews. ManageEngine ADManager Plus is rated 8.2, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ManageEngine ADManager Plus writes "An effective auditing solution that scours your AD and produces easy-to-understand logs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". ManageEngine ADManager Plus is most compared with One Identity Active Roles, SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, Microsoft Entra ID, ManageEngine ADAudit Plus and Microsoft Active Directory, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Prometheus and Nagios XI. See our ManageEngine ADManager Plus vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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