SolarWinds IPAM Reviews

I have been working with SolarWinds IPAM whenever there is a requirement, but it is not a day-to-day product. NTA, NCM, and NPM are the products I work with daily, while I work on SolarWinds IPAM once in a while since it is not highly used.

I normally do not have other tools experience to compare with, but with SolarWinds IPAM, they actually integrate with the DHCP DNS server, allowing us to get the scopes, and from there, we can retrieve the information, which is a good feature for managing the DNS DHCP server.

The automated discovery feature of SolarWinds IPAM is fine, but I am unable to compare it with other products from different vendors due to my lack of experience with them. It starts with discovery, and we can discover things through the gateway router or even subnet, so supernet, which is possible and a good feature.

The benefit of integrated DHCP and DNS management in SolarWinds IPAM is significant. It can gather proper information such as MAC addresses from the DHCP server, so having DHCP and DNS servers integrated is vital to get complete information, otherwise some details may be missed.

I commonly use the centralized dashboard for multiple products in SolarWinds IPAM.

SolarWinds IPAM effectively helps resolve IP address conflicts. The centralized dashboard has significantly helped resolve IP address conflicts. SolarWinds IPAM has provided a centralized dashboard for a long time now rather than requiring separate management of individual features such as managing IP addresses across separate subnets, which used to be very difficult. Nowadays, there are tools to manage them easily, integrating them with the DHCP server, DNS server, and even IP request-related functionality, which helps a lot in management.

In terms of improvement for SolarWinds IPAM, I think there needs to be a greater focus on the alert side. If they can work more on complicated alerts, that will be useful, and I believe we need to focus more on the alert part.

For SolarWinds IPAM to get closer to a ten, I would like to see additional features, specifically if it can provide scanning level features and integrate IP scan related features that would be more valuable.

I have not come across complaints related to compliance standards about IP version four or version six in my customer companies, so I do not have an idea regarding that related to our company.

I would rate the technical support by SolarWinds a six.

In terms of improving their technical support, it should focus on response time. SolarWinds directly seems to have response issues, and as a vendor, we are supporting quickly, but when we go to the direct SolarWinds support, the response is slow, so that needs to be improved.

Neutral

The initial setup for SolarWinds IPAM is efficient, especially now that we have the observability platform which allows for automatic implementation. Adding the nodes is not complicated, so SolarWinds IPAM is not difficult to implement.

We are not using the reporting and visualization tools for capacity planning in SolarWinds IPAM. We are a vendor supporting the solution by implementing it, providing training, and offering after-sales support, so we do not manage SolarWinds IPAM in the client environment.

I do not deal with the pricing of SolarWinds IPAM; my focus is solely on the technical side.

I usually recommend SolarWinds IPAM for various types of companies. It is useful everywhere rather than being limited to a particular area.

We are a partner of SolarWinds.

I would rate this review seven out of ten.

I use SolarWinds IPAM in my company for IP address management.

SolarWinds IPAM is not a tool on which I have extensively worked since I have been just using it in my company to manage the database of IP addresses. In general, my company uses SolarWinds IPAM as a database.

I am unsure if SolarWinds IPAM is good for network management. I know that the tool can manage IP addresses. From any improvement perspective, SolarWinds IPAM should consider working on the area where the tool lacks, which is its network management capabilities.

SolarWinds IPAM offers the functionalities it has promised to my company. There is nothing much that one can expect from a tool meant to manage IP addresses.

I have been using SolarWinds IPAM for four years.

It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

My company has approximately 20,000 to 30,000 users or IP addresses we manage with SolarWinds IPAM.

I have experience with the solution's technical support. Based on my team's interactions with the technical support team of SolarWinds, I rate them a nine out of ten. My team has always received very good responses or solutions from the technical support team of SolarWinds.

Positive

The initial setup of SolarWinds IPAM is simple.

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

I have been using products from SolarWinds for the past fifteen years, because of which there has been no need to look into other products.

SolarWinds IPAM is a good product.

I rate the overall product a ten out of ten.

SolarWinds IPAM is a simple and user-friendly tool. The product’s most valuable features are IP configuration and IP authentication.

They should provide more details on the full stack feature. It needs to be integrated with the hypervisor. It helps us in system analysis and capacity planning.

It is a stable product.

It is a scalable product.

The technical support services need improvement. It is time-consuming to escalate the issues to the Level 2 engineer. It takes a minimum of five days to resolve the problems.

Neutral

The product is easy to deploy. The client has already purchased the product. Thus, it is installed and connected with the database. We have to add a DNS server for configuration.

The product is costly. It costs around $4000 to $5000 for 25000 IPs. It has options for purchasing either perpetual or subscription based licenses. There are no additional charges involved. For renewal, we have to pay around 20% of the total cost. It means $1000 to $1500.

I rate SolarWinds IPAM an eight out of ten.

We use the solution for IP management.

We use the latest versions to avoid any security concerns.

The solution is deployed on-premises. There are 50 people using this solution in my organization.

I like the option to keep all of the available and used IPAM addresses in the central organization. Our teams are using Ansible Playbooks and taking IP addresses for available iPads with IPAM.

We are very pleased with the IPAM solution. It's very efficient.

The solution could be faster. Sometimes we have to wait for screens to load, so faster operations would be better.

I have used this solution for two years.

I haven't experienced any problems with stability. I would rate the stability as nine out of ten.

It's scalable. I would rate the scalability as eight out of ten.

We aren't working with the SolarWinds team directly. We have local contacts, and we're very pleased with them. Technical support is very good. I would rate it as 10 out of 10.

In previous jobs, we used Excel tables instead of an IPAM solution.

Setup is very easy. I would rate setup as 10 out of 10. 

We had a team of about 15 people for deployment. They are mainly engineers and in operations.

I would rate this solution as nine out of ten.

The management of all of our IP ranges and bringing in our DHCP and DNS servers was quite easy. We got a complete view of our network addresses, and we got rid of a lot of Excel sheets after introducing this solution. We now have valid, not outdated, information.

Some processes are a little bit bumpy. There is always the question of where you want to design your processes, and this is may be better in a central service management tool and not in the IPAM. If you could request new IP addresses and stuff like that, it would be a little bit more straightforward.

The solution needs a design refresh. It does everything we need, but it's an old design approach. 

I have been working with this solution for ten months.

I would rate the stability of the solution as a ten out of ten. It is trustworthy and does what it should. 

You don't run into scaling problems with a solution like this. It's so easy. There are currently about 15 users of the solution at our company. 

The technical support was quite responsive. There were not many problems, but they solved all of them and were easy to work with. I would rate them as a four out of five.

The setup process is quite easy and straightforward. 

On a scale of one to five, where one is high and five is good, I would rate this solution as a four. It is quite affordable. 

We looked at other options, but I don't remember their names. We looked at two or three of them but we came back to SolarWinds IPAM because it totally integrates into the other SolarWinds products, which is quite nice. We just have one console and our requirements were not that heavy.

I would recommend this solution for all companies that have to deal with a lot of networks. There is no limitation to how many seats a company can have or how many employees. It is about how many different networks you have to manage, and the size doesn't matter. It is a solution for all companies with a lot of networks. 

On a scale of one to ten, overall, this solution is a solid eight. 

It's for IP address management. It has been more than 12 years since I have been using SolarWinds products in this firm. We are using seven to eight models of SolarWinds, such as SAM, IPAM, Virtualization Manager, UDT, and NPM. Over these years, we have done customizations and created so many dashboards and alerts that it's quite difficult for us to switch to a different application because we would have to do that customization again. If I bring new applications to my firm, I would need almost two years to make that equivalent to what we have now with Solarwinds.

We have an on-prem environment where we keep on deploying servers, etc. So, we need a tool like this to keep track of the static IPs. This is the only application that we use, and we are happy with this.

Its setup is simple. Its interface is simple. It's very easy to manage.

My understanding is that IPAM cannot be used for the AWS environment. I might be wrong, but that's what I believe it cannot do. On AWS, SolarWinds IPAM cannot do what it does on the on-prem side. They should explore how to make IPAM capable and scalable on AWS and Azure environments.

It has been more than 12 years.

It's stable.

It's not about scalability. It's about IPAM's capability. IPAM is not capable enough to manage the IP address on AWS. I can scale it to AWS, but it's not going to perform how it's performing in the on-prem environment.

In terms of the number of users, SolarWind IPAM is completely administered by my team. We are 18 in number. We are using it very frequently. It's almost on a daily basis.

About 10 years ago, support was very good, but in the last two to three years, we are observing that the support quality has degraded in terms of knowledge and responsiveness.

In some cases, we had to escalate to the account manager or territory manager, and even then, I didn't find them helpful. This is the level of support that we are getting. It's because of the number of SolarWinds users they have now. Sometimes, they take a long time to receive our call. Sometimes, even when they receive our call, if we are looking for some urgent solution from them, they download files and ask us to give them some time to get back. They might take half an hour, or they might take one, two, or three hours. During that duration, my system is down. They're not able to provide quick responses nowadays.

Neutral

It's very easy. I would rate it a five out of five in terms of the ease of the setup. We are not just using IPAM. We're using multiple modules of SolarWinds, and in a single day, I can bring up my entire SolarWinds setup. It's very simple.

It's on the costlier side. It's expensive.

I haven't explored other applications in the market. I have seen a couple of open-source ones, which are comparatively low in price but they can't be exactly compared to SolarWinds. IPAM is an expensive solution for any firm to adopt.

It's on the costlier side. If you can afford it, I would definitely recommend going for SolarWinds because it's simple and easy to manage. It depends on how much you want to spend on an IPAM tool. If you do not have a very big environment, then you can also manage IP addresses in a simple Excel sheet, but for a very big environment, you would need an IPAM tool.

Because I'm still not able to utilize my IPAM on the AWS cloud environment, I would rate it a 7 out of 10, but I'm happy with it on the on-prem side.

Our primary use case for this solution is assigning IP addresses.

The product is user-friendly and valuable.

The installation and storage could be improved.

We have been using this solution for about a month.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable. Currently, five people are using the solution in our organization.

I rate the initial setup a five out of ten. It was a bit complex.

The license is expensive as it could be priced lower. Therefore, I rate the price a six out of ten.

I rate the solution a seven out of ten. The solution is good, but the storage and installation can be improved.

The quality of the data with SolarWinds IPAM is very valuable to us.

I would like more updates.

I've been working with this solution for about three and a half years.

It is a stable product.

It is scalable. We're looking at about five large clients, and about 50 to 60 users.

Technical support is very good.

The initial setup is straightforward. It takes about half a day, and it can be done by one engineer.

Do a proof of concept study. I would rate SolarWinds IPAM at eight on a scale from one to ten.

We use the tool for discovery and IP address management. 

I am impressed with the product's reports. 

The product needs to improve its support. The response time is long and not very helpful. 

I have been working with the tool for more than five years. 

The tool is quite stable if you follow the sizing guidelines. 

The product is scalable. 

The product's initial setup is simple. 

I would rate the product's pricing a six out of ten. 

I would rate the overall product an eight out of ten. 

The most valuable feature of SolarWinds IPAM is its automated IP address management. Instead of working with Excel sheets, it's automated and saves a lot of time and effort. Additionally, it is adaptable, IT managers enjoy it, and it is high quality.

I have been using SolarWinds IPAM for approximately 10 years.

The stability of SolarWinds IPAM is good.

I rate the stability of SolarWinds IPAM a nine out of ten.

SolarWinds IPAM is scalable.

SolarWinds IPAM offers premium support, but the customer has to pay more money, and then they will have minimal response times.

I rate the support of SolarWinds IPAM a four out of five.

The price of SolarWinds IPAM is good. After the second year, you have to pay additional for maintenance, because the first year is included with the license maintenance and support. It's from the second year on, you have to pay about 20% of the list price for maintenance and support.

I rate the price of SolarWinds IPAM a five out of five.

I rate SolarWinds IPAM a nine out of ten.