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it_user657444<\/a>Works at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees<\/span><\/div>
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I am among the few Solarwinds Certified Professional and have been working on Solarwinds for around 8-10 years now. I have been amazed at the way it has been consistently improving to cater to the ever-growing needs of infrastructure monitoring. The extreme reliance on IT in the current scenario makes monitoring of the system more critical than ever. From the days of Up/down monitoring things have gotten smarter and smarter and Solarwinds has been keeping up very well. I have worked on majority of their modules at Small, Medium as well as Large enterprise level. And for the most part Solarwinds suite has not disappointed me. Agreed that there is no perfection and always a scope to improve what keeps Solarwinds surging ahead is their agility to quickly encompass path breaking enhancements or an altogether new module. <\/p>\n\n

Some highlights:\n
The quick installation which results in a satisfying experience of having the system up and running in no time is still their advantage.\n
The seamless integration and lucid interface makes it easy to get to the root cause in no time.\n
Flexible options now to have a few standalone modules as well.\n
The fantastic Thwack community with priceless contribution.\n
Ease of administration for the most part. A small portion is a bit convoluted which can be due to the fact that it has many features and is now a giant suite of software.\n
Abundance of knowledge base<\/p>\n\n

Some areas of improvements:\n
Some features are still old school - like requesting new OID/MIB and then downloading and updating them\n
Complicated upgrade\n
Some features have been requested for years and is still not implemented. \n
Web based alerting is a pain compared to the original windows application where once could simultaneously work on multiple alerts at the same time and copy paste content.\n
Not the most satisfactory Failover/standby solution.<\/p>\n\n

Overall it is an extremely feature rich suite of monitoring software with a hunger to get into the Gartner\'s leader quadrant . <\/p><\/div>

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it_user216399<\/a>Senior Network Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees<\/span><\/div>
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NPM works well on VMs also. Its been a year using NPM and other modules on VM. Solarwinds technical support is good also. <\/p><\/div>

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it_user262428<\/a>Wireless Network Engineer - Indoor Technical Head at a tech services company<\/span><\/div>