We performed a comparison between Lenovo XClarity Controller and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's most valuable feature is its ability to provide insights into server status and alerts."
"The most valuable feature of Lenovo XClarity is the ease of use because of the interface browser that is highly compatible and it has mobile web management."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"Hardware health: It allows for proactive monitoring of the hardware health and is a game changer."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"The features like trends, capacity planning, recommendations, and diagnostics are the main items I focus on for added value."
"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."
"Management Console - Managing service to each server enrolled in the Solarwinds is much easier. Using a web base console, you can control your service much convenient way. There is no need to login remotely. It save a lot of time and effort."
"We use the solution as a central monitoring tool. We use it to monitor every transaction that has a relation to the organization’s infrastructure."
"They could enable notifications on emails and phones regarding control panel information."
"Lenovo XClarity can improve the dashboard integration. For example, graphs could be better. Additionally, more integration with other vendors is needed. For example, VMware has integration with a lot of vendors."
"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."
"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"I would like to see support for non-Windows or non-Microsoft domains, especially Apache and other non-Windows servers."
"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."
"It needs time-based functions for monitoring. Some things need to be polled on a specific schedule or only during a specific window."
"Some custom applications cannot be monitored, and a lot more applications need to be included."
"Mapping interactions between systems."
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Lenovo XClarity Controller is ranked 15th in Server Monitoring with 2 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. Lenovo XClarity Controller is rated 9.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Lenovo XClarity Controller writes "Quick scaling, easy to use, and useful mobile management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Lenovo XClarity Controller is most compared with Zabbix, HPE System Management and Huawei iBMC, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Prometheus. See our Lenovo XClarity Controller vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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