We performed a comparison between SCOM, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."
"With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"What I like about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it's useful for analyzing traffic. It also has an application visibility feature that lets you control applications."
"The most valuable features are the bandwidth analyzer, the monitoring, the network analyzer, it has overall good performance, and an easy deployment."
"The integration with other SolarWinds products is good."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical."
"Their support team is efficient, and it is easy to set up."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The other valuable system is the DSS (decision support system). If there's a fault in the network, SolarWinds is basically capable of rectifying and resolving that problem on its own without any intervention from an IP assistant or administrator."
"Can easily be interconnected with other management systems."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"There are a lot of options for customization of the dashboard, alerts, and reports."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution."
"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."
"If your network is on SolarWinds, and you notice that the traffic is bad because it says "user downloading a heavy file," it doesn't indicate which endpoint is downloading those heavy files. SolarWinds doesn't have the tools to be able to handle this kind of situation. You can just notice through your network device that the traffic is becoming overwhelming or heavy, but you cannot go inside and get more details related to the endpoint where it is happening. We would like SolarWinds to be able to handle this kind of situation and even manage the traffic inside a network from the endpoint to the network device. These would be good enhancements. It is mostly stable. The problem comes only when we want to add another SolarWinds model. SolarWinds has so many models, and sometimes when we want to add other models on the platforms that are reserved for our firm, it freezes. When this happens, we have to create a new VM for that model."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"It's scalable, but it could be simplified because it's not completely easy."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The problem is that SolarWinds is trying to bolt in too much and that can leave bugs, which you have to then sort out, leaving the product unstable. SolarWinds needs to try and slow down and improve the stability of the product, as opposed to bringing out more and more features."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"The root cause analysis and installation faults are not clear."
"The integration needs to be improved."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"The improvement would be that SolarWinds NPM thoroughly checks its patches before releasing them to the market. Better testing, alpha testing, and then releasing it to the market."
"The console could be more user-friendly. It would be better if SolarWinds updated the user interface."
"The integration with the APIs and the web servers deployed can definitely be improved."
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