My use cases for N-able N-central always start with hardware monitoring, but since Enable expanded its portfolio, it's always getting more and more options and use cases. Sometimes we start with the hardware monitoring, but then we include patching of Windows servers and Windows devices. For now, we are still using their antivirus, although we are changing to Windows Defender, but that's a strategic decision in the company. We still have the central one as our second option, which is still through Enable.
The dashboarding at the moment is not yet through N-able N-central, but it would be that case in the near future.
The most helpful features of N-able N-central include providing a single pane of glass for many insights in an environment regarding their patching, their assets, their devices in general, and the active issues that they show. The fact that I can do 90% of my job through this platform is significant as I do a lot of monitoring for customers. I don't need VPN almost, I can send my scripts for certain things or check something directly through a device, which means I don't have to remote connect in many occasions.
I can just go to command prompt, start session and I'm connected to command prompt from the server, just send something, or I can do a script or an automation policy just through task execution. I can get information about the running services, processes, the registry. On the file system, I can retrieve files, I can send files directly from this single pane of glass, which is my office.
N-able N-central provides me with the Automation Manager that allows us to use their agents and probes to send scripts and other checks regarding the patch management.