We performed a comparison between SolarWinds ipMonitor and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature is the availability of end devices."
"I like the tracking feature to track devices and see where they are connected. This is very practical."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical user interface."
"There are a lot of valuable features with SolarWinds NPM. We can receive a lot of detailed data from the monitoring that can use useful for investigations, especially when you are troubleshooting. It is very helpful. Overall it was a very good experience."
"It covers everything from end to end, from the standpoint of endpoint machines and the routers and switches. The switch port also comes there."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution does not include enough features and has some performance issues."
"The solution is not always good with new features, so it's take a long time."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
"SolarWinds NPM can be very slow at times. The database optimization can be done to improve the product performance."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"SolarWinds could offer more support and insights for a broader range of devices. Currently, it focuses on routers, switches, and some load balancers. However, it lacks an out-of-the-box dashboard for monitoring firewalls and some other modern network security devices. We have to customize it a lot."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"Time: A worldwide deployment can be confusing for dispersed users with non-local times. Each node should have a local time (with summer offset if appropriate) & each user should view & report in their local time."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
SolarWinds ipMonitor is ranked 71st in Network Monitoring Software with 1 review while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. SolarWinds ipMonitor is rated 6.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SolarWinds ipMonitor writes "The solution is easy to setup and use but it lacks features and is expensive to scale". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". SolarWinds ipMonitor is most compared with , whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity.
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