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NTA - Changed how we view our network
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to drill into the nodes and quickly determine the cause of high utilization or an outage.
What do you dislike about the product?
It takes time to get everything setup and configured to meet your needs, but once it is done it is worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
High traffic utilization, link changes and types of traffic on our network.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Ensure you understand how the Node count works, so you don't get in a bind for your licenses.
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SolarWinds SAM - Most feasible and optimal monitoring solution for Systems & Application Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
For me SolarWinds Orion Suite of products is everything that i need to monitor my infrastructure and SAM is one such critical pieces which is a feast, let me give you an overview on its capabilities and whats best i like about the module
1. Easy to install, administrators or monitoring engineers would love the tool for what it is.
2. Easy to manage and license the product
3. Discover your infrastructure within no time into SAM and start monitoring the same.
4. Provides great dashboards which can be customized to any extent (views)
5. Provides great alerting and can be customized to any extent
6. Provides great reporting features
7. Provides good amount of authentication to login into the tool
8. Data at rest and in transit can be encrypted
9. Can consume SNMP Traps from underlying infrastructure
10. Can consume syslog messages from underlying infrastructure
11. Base monitoring (device up/down, cpu, memory, disk utilization) could be enabled in no time on the
12. Provides Hardware Health monitors
13. Provides Asset Inventory
14. Can manage process, service, tasks and events in real time
15. You could build an Application Template in no time with component monitors in it to monitor your applications and same could be reused as and when required to 'n' of devices (there are close to about 49 component monitors which does it all - script monitors, File monitors,db monitors, directory monitors, process/service monitors, URL monitors, Pool, JMX, SOAP, Apache, Tomcat etc .....)
16. There are some cool alert actions that could be triggered when an alert is triggered on SolarWinds SAM (actions like sending an email, calling an external script, creating a ticket, calling a vb script, resolving certain issues using restart or other commands etc .......)
17 . It as well provides some cool features like AppInsight
There are several other features along with whats mentioned above (like Perfstack etc ......)
1. Easy to install, administrators or monitoring engineers would love the tool for what it is.
2. Easy to manage and license the product
3. Discover your infrastructure within no time into SAM and start monitoring the same.
4. Provides great dashboards which can be customized to any extent (views)
5. Provides great alerting and can be customized to any extent
6. Provides great reporting features
7. Provides good amount of authentication to login into the tool
8. Data at rest and in transit can be encrypted
9. Can consume SNMP Traps from underlying infrastructure
10. Can consume syslog messages from underlying infrastructure
11. Base monitoring (device up/down, cpu, memory, disk utilization) could be enabled in no time on the
12. Provides Hardware Health monitors
13. Provides Asset Inventory
14. Can manage process, service, tasks and events in real time
15. You could build an Application Template in no time with component monitors in it to monitor your applications and same could be reused as and when required to 'n' of devices (there are close to about 49 component monitors which does it all - script monitors, File monitors,db monitors, directory monitors, process/service monitors, URL monitors, Pool, JMX, SOAP, Apache, Tomcat etc .....)
16. There are some cool alert actions that could be triggered when an alert is triggered on SolarWinds SAM (actions like sending an email, calling an external script, creating a ticket, calling a vb script, resolving certain issues using restart or other commands etc .......)
17 . It as well provides some cool features like AppInsight
There are several other features along with whats mentioned above (like Perfstack etc ......)
What do you dislike about the product?
I cant think of it for now, its been a great tool so far and with new features coming in every now and then I am pretty happy with it. SolarWinds have been pretty aggressive in releasing new features and they have done a great job till date and I hoping they would continue in the same fashion going ahead.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Most Business Critical applications for our clients are being monitored via SolarWinds Orion platform and as mentioned above its been a feast to me as I come from a monitoring background and my primary role is keep the monitoring going which is apt to the client at any given point of time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
SolarWinds SAM is a great tool for systems and application monitoring and fits in for any size and scale, I have been using this tool for quite a while and have implemented it for multiple customers.
SAM is a good product with a some work
What do you like best about the product?
I think the SAM product is very good at what it can monitor. I would highly suggest that you spend a lot of time trying to decide what needs to be monitored and what doesn't. The applications are monitored and you are able to see the history of any issues that occurred that is great.
What do you dislike about the product?
The licenses is crazy. When using the SAM for certain applications you will notice one application can consume 20-100 licenses depending on what you monitor. With that said you will under buy your licenses. Just to be clear the SAM is good but just use the demonstration so you can get the number of licenses required to monitor all of your applications.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to see deeper into just server up, down or high memory or low disk space. We are able to see when the actual application is having a problem. This helps in diagnosing when help desk calls.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would highly recommend using the trial software. You must know how many licenses that you need otherwise you will consume way more product licenses than expected.
Robust Performance Monitoing Tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's ability to handle real time monitoring from server to application. The alerts that can be set up so that users can get
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't think there are any specific areas that I don't/didn't like about SAM.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoing all the servers (Windows as well as Unix).
monitoring agent makes surface triage simple and fast
What do you like best about the product?
the drill down features make identifying issues in term meaningful to a developer great.
What do you dislike about the product?
At this time I have not had any issues with this product
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SQL issues mostly
Fan of SAM
What do you like best about the product?
Building our own application monitors for custom programs. Being able to monitor anything and everything we need to monitor. Building alerts and custom actions to those alerts.
What do you dislike about the product?
As with all Solarwinds products there is a lot of options to SAM. You are able to do so much it can get overbearing. Just take the time and make it happen.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One issue we have had is an application locking up. While we were working out the bugs we created a monitor and had the application restart when it went down.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Give it a trial it is free for 30 days. A must have especially if you have home brew applications.
Pretty good templates and basic application monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
I like the templates, either canned or ones you can build, to apply across a line of servers to monitor applications. It is fairly easy to monitor processes or services for availability and performance. They recently (in 6.6) added some application dependency mapping (using an agent) to show what network connections are made by what services out to other servers/services, this is a nice addition if you are using the agent.
What do you dislike about the product?
The web interface is not always the easiest to use. If there is a problem with an application you click on the red text thinking it will tell you what the problem is, but it is often a few more clicks away.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to apply the same template across multiple deployment tiers, allowing our developers to get access to the same monitoring that we will use in production. This allows them to make sure their applications are performing and reporting properly before we have it deployed for real.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have other solarwinds products this is a good addition. They are also adding a bit more application monitoring (using an agent) in to SAM, which is nice. NPM is still their strongest offering. Support has gotten worse over the past few years though, and SolarWinds as a whole seems to be branching out in many (too many?) directions.
Solarwinds SAM @ Western Reserve Hospital
What do you like best about the product?
The monitoring setup is straight forward and easy to setup.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am very happy with Solarwinds and there isn't much I dislike
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it alert us of unexpected downtimes. We use it restart services after maintenance windows so admins do not have to be on site.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend this product to any one who is requiring monitoring of the servers in their environment. It is easy to setup with great grouping options and custom fields.
Solarwinds Server & Application Monitor
What do you like best about the product?
Provides a huge library of available component monitors from snmp and wmi to various script based options such as powershell. Recent additions of AppInsight monitors for IIS, Exchange, etc are incredibly useful. Automatic detection of which AppInsight template is applicable to which node keeps implementation pretty simple and straight forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes understanding how and where to apply certain templates can be a little confusing.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have gained a much deeper level of visibility into some of our critical environments that we did not have with previous monitoring solutions.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Spend some time on the thwack.com user community, even if you don't end up purchasing the software, you can still participate there and learn a lot of stuff from the community.
SolarWInds NTA Review
What do you like best about the product?
Netflow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is a great product for finding the who, what ,when of traffic utilization. I have seen first hand how this product has identified traffic, applications, and conversations that were causing bandwidth issues or concerns. By taking this information and reviewing it, it has saved Clients from having to spend money on upgrades or have caught rogue systems or applications performing actions during business hours. It is easy to define custom Applications and even IP groups to look for aggregate bandwidth usage.
What do you dislike about the product?
NTA is based on Layer 3 flow data, which in some environments are limited and thus missing out on seeing traffic data.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
WAN Upgrades, WAN usage during business hours, general data communications and amount leaving the organization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Have a good plan on what sources you want to configure to provide flow data into SolarWinds Orion NTA.
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