BE Warned - without tuning the alerts you will get many false positive alerts. By default the system shows you too much irrelevant information and it alerts on way too many general conditions. What they do not tell you that by doing a non customized quick roll out you will receive unlimited number of alerts to the point they will be ignored. I do not like that they promote how easily you can roll out this software to start monitoring your network. (The problem is most users do not customize) CONS PROSĪllows for customized views and alerts to really lock down your essential requirements. It also allows you to configure a single display monitor (perhaps a 70 inch TV/Display) that scrolls through multiple screens of valuable information. Custom NOC views allow you to present pretty much any monitored information on a screen. For those not familiar - this is when you set up a large monitor in a "monitoring " room to view network conditions in real time. We use it for alerting via email and for NOC (Network Operation Center) setups.
This product is great when tuned and customized properly. But the price to jump up is super crazy expensive. However if you have 2 48 port switches, that is 96 nodes, you want to monitor, guess how fast your 100 node license gets used up. I think of a server as a node, and everything on that server should be covered as 1 node, but they see everything down to seems like the vlans on a switch port, but to be clear it is not counting vlans. The way they count nodes against your license total is in my opinion unfair. Even a small company needs this software but its hard to justify. SolarWinds has a great set of products, but the licensing costs are really high. Ease of use is good, interface is above average, and saving my score is 1000 out of 10 CONSįor me there is only one real things that gets me with NPM. It offers WMI, SNMP and ICMP monitoring as well as the agent which gives you several flavors to monitor equipment. The Agent for servers installs on Windows and Linux and is SO EASY. You can label your undefined items so they mean something to you. When there is no identified MIB, you can create your own. Detailed level for switch ports and routers, Cisco UCS, HP, DELL, and the list goes on and on. You have details and i mean details about every server, switch, I even have my consumable good inventory vending machines monitored with NPM. Allows you a near single pane of glass approach to you network.
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