Network Performance Monitor Reviews

Excellent features.

Pros:

It has features for real-time network monitoring, automated network discovery, advanced network alerting, and wireless network monitoring.

Cons:

The UI has a basic design. The visuals aren't the best.

Network Performance Monitor Gives Us Value for Money

Comments: Network Performance Monitor gives us incredible experiences and insights.

Pros:

The features of Network Performance Monitor are easy to understand. I also love the accuracy of Network Performance Monitor.

Cons:

Network Performance Monitor is easy to use and flawless. Network Performance Monitor meets our needs.

SolarWinds NPM feels outdated and performance is lacking

Comments: I'd rate this product a 3/5. It does what you need it to but it requires more administration that it should and the performance is poor.

Pros:

The tool does what you need it to do from a network performance standpoint. The features allow your typical network monitoring, including devices applications and services. As such it helps to troubleshoot and avoid unnecessary downtime.

Cons:

Product feels dated and the performance is pretty bad when compared to other tools out there that are cheaper

Network Performance Monitor Is Easy to Use and Reliable

Comments: Network Performance Monitor has incredible capabilities.
I have a great experience.

Pros:

I am impressed by the accuracy of Network Performance Monitor. Network Performance Monitor is easy to use.

Cons:

I do not dislike Network Performance Monitor at all.. Network Performance Monitor is exceptional.

Best tool we have for NPM

Pros:

Ease of implementation and usage we see a lot!

Cons:

The interface could use a refresh and I hope its coming on a future release soon

My NPM for critical NOC Monitoring and its operations

Comments: NPM is the best solution when it comes to performance monitoring as for sure no other product can beat in terms of monitoring like Netflow, web filtering, interface, CPU, bandwidth, disk, servers, DB, etc... and many more.
Even though it is best but has complications in learning and budget issues.

Pros:

if there is something that everyone is interested in this product is its capability and performance. It makes network engineers' jobs easy and to identify errors quickly and focus on things that were really required. Analysis of network firewalls on a very high basis like bandwidth utilization, Netflow, web filter, etc.. for engineers to analyze and identify when any issue comes up.

Cons:

Budget is always an issue so many times after POC clients prefer for alternate solutions as it is best in capabilities of monitoring but its concerns about the budget when it comes SMB customers especially.

Solarwinds npm

Comments: I have used multiple network monitoring softwares and there is no comparison with the support and quality of software with SolarWinds. A perfect monitoring tool with out of the box reporting and alerting with extreme customizations.

Pros:

I have been using this software for a very long time and its graphical representations and reporting is so top notch and its very easy to install, configure, and troubleshoot and interact with highly skilled individuals on its Thwack Community and share and discuss new ideas and look for guidance/assistance and documentation with labs and we can collect points to exchange with gifts and certification vouchers.

Cons:

Its a bit costly and fortigate firewalls are not supported completely to provide its site to site vpn details like it shows for cisco asa. It would be great to be able to monior our vpn and who gets in and out of our network.

SolarWinds Orion NPM Review

Comments: I can consider it the best NPM software out there, it is suitable for types of organizations starting with small till large & very large, I have been using it for more than 4 years & i'm satisfied.

Pros:

NPM is one of the best Network performance Monitoring software out there, it allows me to add any type of objects within my Network Environment, Network nodes, Server nodes either Windows or Linux, and i can select the elements that i need to add & add the needed reports & alerts based on my needs.

Cons:

What is least that i like about it is that when it crashes, or stops all of a sudden, then the Alerts & the Reports stop working & i have to login to the Application server to troubleshoot the problem, yet the support is always good & helping.

We use NPM to monitor our network stack.

Pros:

Fast, clear status of performance and possible outages. Easy integration with other tools and custom alert mechanisms. A focused company who is very involved in making great tutorials.

Cons:

The GUI is starting to look dated, it could use a complete overhaul. License needs can be tricky to determine.

Excellent system for monitoring

Pros:

This has to be by far the best networking and services monitoring tool I have ever used. It is rich in features and it just works.

Cons:

It is an amazing system and I would recommend to anyone. It is however a little time consuming to set it up, for some people even a little challenging.

NPM and Sam Application review

Comments: No emergency work,

Pros:

Stable, easy to us. Customizable reports.

Cons:

Sencers cost then software costs are too muchNo active support.

Pricey but worth its weight in (insert item here)... Must have tool.

Pros:

Complete network monitoring tool. Allows you a near single pane of glass approach to you network. You have details and i mean details about every server, switch, I even have my consumable good inventory vending machines monitored with NPM. Detailed level for switch ports and routers, Cisco UCS, HP, DELL, and the list goes on and on. When there is no identified MIB, you can create your own. You can label your undefined items so they mean something to you. The Agent for servers installs on Windows and Linux and is SO EASY. It offers WMI, SNMP and ICMP monitoring as well as the agent which gives you several flavors to monitor equipment. Ease of use is good, interface is above average, and saving my score is 1000 out of 10

Cons:

For me there is only one real things that gets me with NPM. Licensing. SolarWinds has a great set of products, but the licensing costs are really high. Even a small company needs this software but its hard to justify. The way they count nodes against your license total is in my opinion unfair. 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. 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. But the price to jump up is super crazy expensive. They need to rework that.

Solarwinds NPM Review

Comments: This product is great when tuned and customized properly. We use it for alerting via email and for NOC (Network Operation Center) setups.
For those not familiar - this is when you set up a large monitor in a "monitoring " room to view network conditions in real time. Custom NOC views allow you to present pretty much any monitored information on a screen. It also allows you to configure a single display monitor (perhaps a 70 inch TV/Display) that scrolls through multiple screens of valuable information.

Pros:

Allows for customized views and alerts to really lock down your essential requirements. (The problem is most users do not customize)

Cons:

I do not like that they promote how easily you can roll out this software to start monitoring your network. 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. By default the system shows you too much irrelevant information and it alerts on way too many general conditions. BE Warned - without tuning the alerts you will get many false positive alerts.

Excellent Network Monitoring Software from SolarWinds

Comments: We love this software - it gives us alerts and generates ticket emails when a node has been down or is having a packet loss issue, or if we need to monitor bandwidth usage. We will likely stick with NPM for quite some time.

Pros:

We can see at a glance if a client connection is down or has an issue. We have to be able to see at times if there is a packet loss issue at the ISP level, and NPM definitely helps with this.

Cons:

After spending some time thinking, there is not much to complain about. The client node window does contain a LOT of info and can be slightly overwhelming until enough time has been spent navigating around.

Experience with Network Performance Monitor

Comments: It is a very good tool, they have better results with the most used and modern brands and models on the market, but many times in environments there are devices whose brands and models no longer even have support. It is in those cases where more work has to be done in order to obtain a result close to the needy.

Pros:

The tool is easy to implement and configure, plus you don't have to wait long to see the results.

Cons:

Not all makes and models are supported out of the box, and the certification of your MIBs can be complex and even cumbersome.

Solarwinds for server and network monitoring

Comments: I have good expereince with the tool , its easy to use and implement.

Pros:

This is one of the good tool , we can easily configure and monitor servers and network devices in SolarWinds.

Cons:

I think licensing capabilities or complexity can be reduced , sometime I feel its more complex.

NPM is a very reliable and powerful network monitoring tool

Comments: It can use some improvements, but still, in 8 years we've been using NPM on a service provider scenario, it has solved about 80% of our customers requirements for network monitoring. When complemented with other products from the same vendor, it provides maybe 95%, since there's always something than need a specialized tool.

Pros:

In the world of enterprise network monitoring, NPM has one of the shortest learning curves, its web GUI is very inutitive and you can start monitoring your assets almost immediately. It's support for different monitoring mechanisms (snmp, wmi and agent) provides adaptability to mostly any network. It possesses a very robust engine to configure thresholds, events and actions, so you can get the proper reaction to different events. SolarWinds provides a very complete ecosystem of network monitoring and management tools with seamless integration.

Cons:

The licensing model is not the best for a service provider scenario and it seems like the vendor doesn't even consider this option. Reporting capabilities are sort of buggy , specially when exporting complex and large reports. This tasks will also consume a lot of resources. There's an opportunity for the vendor to maybe decouple reporting capabilities to a BI module which can be deployed on an independent server, and maybe use for it a read only replica of the production DB.

The Best of the Best

Comments: The ability to monitor, report. and alert on our Network Infrastructure.

Pros:

Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is by far the industry leader. The system is robust and offers real-time and indepth analysis of network interfaces, nodes, devices, etc.

Cons:

The platform did some take some time to setup. Unfortunately, some of the alerting can be very vague. There are templated alerts, however, they do not fit the needs of our business. We spent countless man-hours in developing new alerting templates.

Great network monitoring tool

Comments: I use NPM to monitor the health of the network routers and switches and the bandwidth used in the WAN links and switch uplinks. I also use it to monitor several Windows servers, including free disk space, memory and CPU occupation, the load of Hyper-V and VMWare hosts and the load, battery status and runtime of UPS devices.

Pros:

It's very easy to setup and use and everything is configurable. It's really easy to configure dashboards and visualize every piece of information the way we want to. It can be used to monitor network equipment from a lot of vendors, as well as Windows systems and virtualization hosts and guests. Basically, anything it can connect to using SNMP or WMI.

Cons:

It's not good at all to get information about endpoints. The information is unreliable: it doesn't find a lot of endpoints in the network, reports them with old IP addresses and in places where they are not connected anymore, etc.

Good aspects of Solarwinds

Pros:

Being able to view the traffic levels passing through the circuit or port and being able to view how long it has been down if there is any interruption here are the best aspects for me.

Cons:

As the number of nodes increases, there may be some slowness.

Solarwinds NPM easy to manage and setup. Easily integrate other Solarwinds Products

Pros:

Easily monitor network devices and their performance .Track for network issues and have to ability to narrow down issues to specific ports. Easily customize view to show only what I need to see.

Cons:

Not able to limit events across solarwinds platform to only devices I need to monitor. Have to manually Setup maps. (option to purchase mapping software separate) .

network management in minutes

Pros:

SolarWinds NPM (Network Performance Manager) is one of the most gratifying products to use. After installing on a server, you can literally in minutes begin collecting actionable network performance if you have previously configured SNMP on your network equipment. Most of the products integrate, building on each other and adding more value. I have always been impressed with how their new versions add significant features and value for just paying maintenance on the product. Their online training is also very valuable.

Cons:

More advance features will take more effort to configure and generate actionable results. You can easily be overwhelmed by alerts and syslog if you do not make an effort to manage what you really need to see.

Works well overall but can get slow over time

Comments: We use this software to monitor our network equipment and servers and for the price it works well for doing that.

Pros:

Was easy to setup and maintain and their support seems to be great to work with.

Cons:

Over time it gets really slow and the server needs rebooted. Nothing I've tried including putting it on a new server seems to rectify this.

You get what you pay for, mostly

Pros:

This is a full featured product with many optional add on modules to keep a "single pane of glass" for IT departments.

Cons:

Finding personnel with fine tuning experience, education and knowledge is somewhat difficult at times, making many implementations half completed.

Monitor the network

Pros:

You can see the lines bandwiths and poor cable connection with it.

Cons:

Sometimes it is freezing and late to open the monitoring page.