2021-04-27T16:31:00Z

What is your primary use case for Auvik?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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LS
Real User
2024-02-22T19:29:00Z
Feb 22, 2024

We use Auvik for monitoring and alerting on customer environments. We lacked visibility into specific aspects of our Local Area Network. Therefore, we required a solution capable of monitoring and alerting us about port activity and other relevant information at the switch level.

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EA
Real User
Top 20
2024-01-12T19:04:00Z
Jan 12, 2024

We use it for managing our inventory of assets and for receiving timely alerts from our servers.

Bruce Carson - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2024-01-08T21:54:00Z
Jan 8, 2024

It provides comprehensive visibility into your network infrastructure, automates network mapping, sends timely alerts for potential issues, and facilitates configuration management. With Auvik, you can receive notifications directly, ensuring you stay informed about the health and performance of your network. When I integrated Auvik, the primary goal was to uncover issues that might be occurring without my awareness. Essentially, I wanted to identify potential problems before they escalated to a point where I became aware of them, often when it was already too late. I sought early warnings for network issues to proactively address and mitigate them.

AD
Real User
Top 20
2023-12-12T12:37:00Z
Dec 12, 2023

Our initial purpose was to look at network data from our endpoint protection units. We wanted more visibility into the traffic coming into and out of the organization.

BG
Reseller
Top 20
2023-12-08T20:07:00Z
Dec 8, 2023

We're using it just to monitor customer equipment and make backups for network device configuration changes. We're using maybe one percent of what it's capable of doing. We're trying to get some of our stuff straightened out since whoever set up our Auvik did not do a great job of organizing it.

JC
Real User
Top 20
2023-12-08T15:27:00Z
Dec 8, 2023

I use it as a first line of information gathering. When properly configured, I am able to quickly diagnose and troubleshoot issues from the network's infrastructure level and go up to servers and other devices.

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Dan Salazar - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-12-04T20:32:00Z
Dec 4, 2023

I use Auvik to create a network topology map for my business, which also serves as a monitoring tool for any downtime or issues within our company's network infrastructure. As a production company, we require continuous operation, so a tool like Auvik provides valuable visual insight even when I'm not physically present. We previously had a basic alerting system in place, but it was not sufficient when we experienced networking issues within one of our two buildings. Often, it was unclear which cables were connected to which devices and where the connections led. Auvik, unlike other tools I've used, excels at visualizing these connections, making it easier for me to identify the source of the problem.

CC
Real User
Top 20
2023-12-04T17:23:00Z
Dec 4, 2023

We manually use Auvik for network monitoring, configuration backups, and syslogs. We implemented Auvik because we wanted to have a redundant monitoring solution that has a cloud component. Auvik utilizes a cloud component that centralizes all data collection and aggregation. Additionally, we employ multiple on-premises collectors to gather data from individual devices. Therefore, our deployment will have a collector at each site, supplemented by a secondary collector at our main site. This configuration ensures redundancy and seamless data transmission to the Auvik cloud.

JW
Real User
Top 20
2023-11-15T19:25:00Z
Nov 15, 2023

We primarily use Auvik for managing and monitoring devices, including network devices, access points, and printers. We utilize Auvik's alerts to notify us of offline devices or any unusual behavior it detects, such as high interface utilization or low disk space. Additionally, we employ Auvik to automate the backup of our network switches. We implemented Auvik because we lacked visibility into potential network issues, such as switch or access point utilization. While I have a wireless controller that provides some insights, Auvik unifies this information into a single, comprehensive view. This centralized visibility enables us to proactively identify and address network problems. Auvik is deployed in a hybrid model because we have an on-prem collector that sends the information to the cloud.

Doug Miller - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-05-03T13:22:00Z
May 3, 2023

We install the product on all of our customer's endpoints. As an IT services consultant and provider, we depend on it to help us monitor the SaaS applications in use in customer environments. This includes monitoring for shadow IT, but equally important is being able to monitor license usage of approved apps and report that usage back to our customers. Our customers' environments range from a handful of users to hundreds. Most of them are heavy SaaS users, and most work in at least hybrid environments, if not completely remote. Many of our customers are highly regulated or work with highly regulated customers themselves. All of them have intellectual property they're concerned about safeguarding, as well as customer information. This solution is one of a set of tools we use to control and protect these environments. It's one of the most important. Knowing about and stopping data from being stored or otherwise transmitted to unapproved SaaS applications is a primary concern for our customers, as it can cause regulatory violations or data loss and exposure - of both their customers' data and their own IP. It works quickly and proactively, allowing us to prevent these problems.

CK
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-18T05:30:00Z
Dec 18, 2022

We use it for network monitoring. We don't do a lot of systems monitoring with it. We predominantly use it for core switches, external network adapters, and other similar things but not for the endpoints or server hardware. We are currently not using any of the automation functions.

BW
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-18T04:57:00Z
Dec 18, 2022

We use this solution to monitor our network devices and servers, get alerts if devices go down, and get alerts when they come back up, which is important. Auvik alerts us about abnormal network traffic and certain ports on certain network devices or high utilization and high bandwidth. We're going to use it to monitor our virtual servers and virtual systems that of which our servers run. It gives us good visibility into our network. We're a resort and have about 800 employees. It is a single network with multiple VLANs. It is relatively straightforward, but we have a lot of remote buildings connected by fiber lengths. Therefore, it's spread out over about 1600 acres of property.

Joseph Consolmagno - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-12-04T15:12:00Z
Dec 4, 2022

We use Auvik to monitor our customers' networks for performance and availability.

PK
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-04T14:27:00Z
Dec 4, 2022

We use Auvik to discover devices on the network, to get a good layout of the network, and to have the solution back up the configuration of certain network devices.

Anthony H. - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 20
2022-12-04T14:09:00Z
Dec 4, 2022

I'm a technical team lead managing other engineers and specialists for several clients. I utilize Auvik for strategic discussions, escalations, and support tickets. I'm on the backend trying to coordinate responses to outages, feature requests, etc. We use multiple applications to manage our network. Auvik is our network mapping and discovery tool that creates alerts in our ticketing system. We use ConnectWise Automate and that suite of products for ticketing. It's not like Auvik is a ticketing help desk system with remote control, but it can do just about everything from a monitoring standpoint. We still use AppNeta for board mirroring or finding latency in network traffic.

Dexter McCrea - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-12-02T21:11:00Z
Dec 2, 2022

We use Auvik for monitoring networks across all of our sites for alerts, reporting, configuration backups, and troubleshooting. Auvik does a little bit of everything when it comes to networking. I'm not the only person that utilizes Auvik, but I'm the only network engineer. The infrastructure team uses it for server monitoring. Security guys can also access it, but I'm the primary caretaker. I monitor 34 sites with 200 managed devices, and about another hundred are unmanaged. Altogether, I have over 2,600 devices that are not networked. If you subtract the network from that, it's about 2,300 devices that aren't network devices, including printers, servers, and computers. Auvik crawls and finds those kinds of things on the network. That's what I mean by total picture.

Jeffery Giddens - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-11-28T14:04:00Z
Nov 28, 2022

We're a managed services provider that caters primarily to movie theater clients. Most of our Auvik collectors are deployed at active movie theaters and point-of-sale environments. We use Auvik to get alerts on network activity and server resource utilization. We monitor firewalls, interfaces, traffic bandwidth utilization, and VPN usage. Auvik alerts us when a VPN or other device goes down. We monitor aspects like port utilization and which switches are being used for what or how much traffic goes across ports. We don't automate anything through Auvik. We have other tools we use for automating tasks on our systems. We're utilizing Auvik specifically for visibility into the networks and SNMP-assisted log alerts and functions like that. When those are triggered, other tools outside Auvik run the daily automation routines. It provides a single integrated platform for monitoring, but we use some other RMM tools to log into our servers and things like that. Those have some monitoring built into them, so we get duplicate alerts along with those. If a hard drive on a server fills up, I'll get an alert from Auvik and our RMM solution. But there's no other platform offering more monitoring or alerts that Auvik's not giving us. Auvik gives us more than what all of our other platforms give us, and it's all in one spot.

Thomas-Fischer - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant
Top 10
2022-11-25T21:35:00Z
Nov 25, 2022

We manage IT infrastructure for 400 companies, and Auvik allows us to monitor it remotely. We have a portal to monitor these companies' servers, devices, routers, and APs constantly so we know when something is down and needs to be repaired in real-time. It's nice. We have it implemented in our Autotask and service desk portal, so it can automatically open and close tickets.

NS
Reseller
Top 20
2022-11-25T17:26:00Z
Nov 25, 2022

My company is a managed services provider managing network infrastructure for multiple clients. We use Auvik to monitor firewalls, routers, or switches. When network devices go offline, get instant email notifications so we can investigate the issue. We also use it to manage devices directly through a web browser remotely.

BF
Real User
Top 20
2022-11-16T02:27:00Z
Nov 16, 2022

We're a managed services provider using Auvik to monitor our clients' infrastructure. It is part of a set of tools that keeps us informed when something goes wrong, and we use it to build network maps. You can get an idea of what's happening on-site even if you're unfamiliar with the client's setup. Sometimes it's the only thing on the network. It's competing with Ubiquiti if we have a Ubiquiti network. Not all the time, but sometimes.

LM
Real User
Top 20
2022-11-16T02:21:00Z
Nov 16, 2022

We use Auvik as a network scanning tool so that we can detect devices that are connected to our office network. We can get information from those devices and track them down. It's a network monitoring and scanning tool, so we can detect rogue devices and network traffic as well. It's essential to see what's on our network. Auvik provides a single integrated platform from a network monitoring perspective. Having a single integrated platform is important for our organization because we obviously don't want to check multiple systems. It's deployed in a single location with multiple networks for different departments. There are 200 endpoints in our organization.

MA
Real User
Top 20
2022-11-16T01:58:00Z
Nov 16, 2022

We use Auvik to monitor our client's infrastructure. It gives us real-time visibility into the devices, their status, and their availability at the device and interface level. Auvik monitors bandwidth utilization, TPU utilization, RAM, memory utilization, etc. Auvik is deployed in a mesh environment consisting of five locations and the data center. We'll be moving toward Azure, but I'm not sure how well Auvik could cover us in that space.

WT
Real User
Top 20
2022-11-14T18:37:00Z
Nov 14, 2022

We are using it for more visibility on our network devices.

DV
Real User
Top 20
2022-11-11T19:12:00Z
Nov 11, 2022

We're an MSP, and we support small to medium businesses from end to end, including printers, servers, and networks. We use Auvik to manage our clients' infrastructure. Our customers include companies running factories and hotels.

MI
Real User
Top 20
2022-11-02T20:06:00Z
Nov 2, 2022

We have several different physical sites and we run our own network. Auvik has some exciting capabilities for aggregating Syslog from switches and having remote console administration across geographic locations. The solution puts a common off-wall in front of switch management but also makes it easy for us to go in and make changes. We use the solution across multiple locations and departments. We use Auvik where we have the most pain points because it's a charge per device brought online model. We use Auvik in a smaller proportion of our infrastructure, around 30% of our architecture.

Robert Bicking - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-11-01T12:52:00Z
Nov 1, 2022

We mostly use it for network monitoring. We also use it for configuration backup.

LA
Real User
Top 20
2022-10-30T19:05:00Z
Oct 30, 2022

I use Auvik to monitor, check, and access all network licenses for different companies, including firewalls, servers, and other devices. The Auvik collector is deployed on the servers and in the management station. The agent collects all the information in the network and sends it to Auvik. Auvik's network map will display all of the devices. If a device is offline, it won't show, but the collector will automatically add it to the Auvik platform when it comes online.

David Laureys - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 10
2022-10-25T21:10:00Z
Oct 25, 2022

We're an MSP, and we have deployed it to monitor the customer network and environment and make sure that the configurations are backed up and know when things were done.

Alec Milam - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-10-25T19:56:00Z
Oct 25, 2022

We use it for our clients that have managed network services. We monitor their networks to see if there are any anomalies or unknown devices, and we use it for troubleshooting as needed.

Ryan Watson - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 20
2022-10-25T19:37:00Z
Oct 25, 2022

We use it for insight into an entire network, all the devices on it, and for monitoring their health. We also have it hooked into our ticketing system for automated ticket generation from any of the devices that we need to manage.

GG
Real User
Top 20
2022-10-23T19:05:00Z
Oct 23, 2022

We are on MSP with multiple clients. We set up a site for each client, and that way we can review and verify all their network equipment: firewalls, switches, routers, even servers, and VMware ESXi. We also get alerts and notifications when everything is disconnected so that we can quickly find the reason and make sure clients are not affected.

MD
MSP
Top 20
2022-10-22T00:25:00Z
Oct 22, 2022

We use it for our small and medium businesses, specifically for data collection. We also use it for network mapping.

Russ Wall - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 10
2022-06-22T20:09:00Z
Jun 22, 2022

We are an MSP. We've got about 500 clients. So, multitenancy is pretty important to us. We're only interested in monitoring and managing network devices, and we define that as switches, routers, access points, and ESX hosts. Even though some of the things that we traditionally consider to be a computer—such as a laptop, a workstation, or a server—appear in Auvik, we do not do any management of them there. The RMM platform that we're currently using is wonderful when it comes to servers, laptops, desktops, and all that, but it is absolutely horrible for properly detecting or identifying a network device. In other words, SNMP to properly identify a device flat out did not work and does not work in our other solution. Auvik fills that gap and does a pretty good job when it comes to that. We have always used multiple applications, and it comes down to finding out what the strengths are of a particular application. Auvik does a great job when it comes to networking devices, but we couldn't do nearly as much as what we do for servers and workstations. So, we use it according to its strengths and our other tools according to theirs. Auvik is a SaaS-only product. There is no on-prem version. There are some definite pros and cons to it. Having to rely on someone else to handle all of the security aspects of something that's SaaS, especially in today's world, can be a little bit nerve-racking. When it is on-prem, you've got full control of ingress and egress. You can lock down the firewall and do all of that good stuff, but at the same time, not having to mess with all of the infrastructure and the things that are required to make a product function is pretty valuable. So, we don't have to worry about storage space, server speed, etc.

Edward Tregunna - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2022-05-10T09:45:00Z
May 10, 2022

Our primary use case is to have a monitoring solution for our managed service clients. That was something we were offering, but we weren't really doing well on that front, in terms of having a proactive monitoring solution. That was the primary pain point we were trying to fix.

DG
Real User
2021-11-11T01:06:00Z
Nov 11, 2021

We initially got Auvik to monitor our network devices and equipment mainly for outages and that sort of issue. We have integrated its alert system and email-to-text solution from a local New Zealand telecommunications provider so that our IT staff can get text alerts to their phones. It's quite handy because you're not constantly monitoring your email. So for our different alerts, we get texts now as well as part of that. It might be on the weekend or something like that, and you're not sitting there monitoring your emails, so texts are a bit easier for our on-call IT person to get a text, and then they can check out what's going on. One of Auvik's services we use is TrafficInsights. It's reasonably new and wasn't around when we first got it. We can feed all the logs into there to see what connections are going and where things are connecting to the environment. It's pretty useful from a security perspective. For example, you can search and see when a specific IP address might have come into your environment if you need it to do an audit or a review. We generally use it for audits or checking where certain things are connecting from around the world. It's a good security feature we can use when we're worried about a device talking to a particular IP address. We can see how long it may have been talking to that. We haven't actually used it for network bandwidth as such. Auvik also acts as a config register, connecting and pulling the configurations of switches. It's good to have that stored there. If we need to restore or roll back to a particular config, those are saved somewhere else in addition to saving it manually before we make changes.

CP
Real User
2021-11-02T21:16:00Z
Nov 2, 2021

I use Auvik every day for everything. I can remote-terminal in, meaning I can be anywhere and jump in from my phone and make any changes I need to on switches.

JD
Real User
2021-10-12T22:54:00Z
Oct 12, 2021

I use it on a daily basis to monitor the portion of my network that is backbone. I have cloud access, but the collectors are on-prem.

BW
Real User
2021-08-18T10:14:00Z
Aug 18, 2021

I used to work at a managed service provider, and we needed a network topology mapping solution and discovered Auvik. So, we tried it out, and then we used Auvik until that MSP was bought out. I left the MSP world and became a network engineer at Greater Nevada Credit Union, where I'm now. We pretty much use it for topology mapping. We use it for mapping out the network and then monitoring the availability of the network infrastructure devices. There is also alerting whenever there are problems. So, we basically use it for monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting. We also use it for configuration management and automated backup. It is a managed solution, so they handle all of the platform upgrades and all that stuff. We have got whichever version they have got.

SW
Real User
2021-07-22T20:17:00Z
Jul 22, 2021

It gives me an overall idea of our network. It shows me where things are at. It tells me about devices being down, e.g., printers. I also use it to see web usage, e.g., what sites people are going to. It has a lot of uses. I check to see the overall network topology, when things go down, or whenever I get alerts from Auvik. I use the reporting part of it. Every day, I take a look at the reports every day. We are using the latest version.

PP
Real User
2021-07-21T17:09:00Z
Jul 21, 2021

Our primary use cases are for monitoring the network and backup for the switches and firewalls.

PB
Real User
2021-07-20T17:13:00Z
Jul 20, 2021

I have access to Auvik as the system administrator to use it to view my network and manage the various pieces of it. I needed a solution like Auvik because I wanted real-time network mapping. At the time, we were using Visio diagrams, which are obviously very hard to keep updated. And so to have something that is running the cloud in real-time on what our network looks like was something I really was interested in.

GB
Real User
2021-07-15T03:30:00Z
Jul 15, 2021

It is our primary monitoring tool for devices. We have virtual machines running the Auvik application. The collectors are also installed on the virtual machines.

GB
Real User
2021-05-03T17:53:00Z
May 3, 2021

I do internal IT for a company and I use Auvik for most of my daily tasks as they relate to firewalls, switches, and routing.

DS
Real User
2021-04-27T16:31:00Z
Apr 27, 2021

We are a multinational company in almost 55 countries. One of the reasons why we selected Auvik was we wanted to have insights into our networks. Ultimately, we can control them at a central level. Auvik was the best fit because it has: * A cloud-based solution using a SaaS model. * Visibility into end users using tools. * Terminal auto-connect, where we can connect devices from Auvik. * Some sort of an audit. * Backup consultations in the tool, which it maintains. It has really eased our life in terms of network operations.

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