SolarWinds Network Device Monitor Reviews

We use SolarWinds Network Device Monitor to keep track of all network devices and manage their configurations. It helps us monitor critical links, showing us real-time utilization graphs. We organize devices by location names, enabling us to receive alerts specific to each location on our summary screen. Additionally, we use SolarWinds Configuration Manager to back up configurations and ensure compliance. This includes using reporting tools to check for any missing compliance elements in our devices.

I find SolarWinds Network Device Monitor to be both simple and complex, offering a wealth of data that meets our requirements effectively. It has definitely saved us time when troubleshooting specific device issues and provided valuable information. As for cost, that decision is managed by higher-ups, so I can't speak to that aspect.

Our company uses the solution to monitor all network connectivity throughout the country and provides results to our client's stakeholders. 

We have a network topology that establishes a certain set of macros and frameworks throughout our entire organization. 

There are 6,000 interfaces that are monitored 24/7/365. The nodes are very sensitive and each has its own service. If a node goes down, we recover it immediately. 

The solution and its interface are elaborate and fully integrate all monitored items for easy analysis and troubleshooting. We have added all nodes to the system and look at events or problematic alerts to troubleshoot. 

The solution is configurable and has many features. 

In my current company, I am using SolarWinds primarily for device management. We need to monitor our network features, including routers and servers, to check the CPU, memory, and bandwidth utilization. Additionally, SolarWinds Network Device Monitor collects NetFlow logs and allows us to identify the top ten network talkers regarding bandwidth usage.

Since our devices are spread out across the world, we can see the status of these devices without having to send someone physically to a remote location, which saves money.

I use the tool for network performance monitoring or NPM of WAN connectivity. In the past year and a half, I have started to use my enterprise LAN with the tool. The product is basically used for link and node monitoring as well as for utilization purposes.

The most valuable feature of the tool for network management tasks is the historical utilization as well as the alerts that I get during jitters or any latency-related issues.

We use SolarWinds for network monitoring and make some dashboards to provide information to other members about which device is working or not. 

We use SolarWinds Network Device Monitor for monitoring and managing IPs. Additionally, we have the IPAM, IP administrator management on SolarWinds, which monitors all the devices and CIs for the servers and network. 

The most valuable features of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor are the reports. We are configuring the reports, and the first reports are only about the devices. We are configuring the thresholds in order to monitor all the devices.

We use this solution for network monitoring, SNMP, WMI, queries against services, and occasionally for certain devices that have stopped, we would restart services.

I like the mapping that you could do and the dashboards were very pretty.

We created dashboards that would provide visibility. We could look at a site and at the surface and we would be able to tell if there was anything going on.

Overall, it is a good user experience and the dashboards are very usable.

Before cementing it into the production environment, we used to test it in a UAC environment - part of which we are using like the NPM. We're using it when we want to monitor certain things. The NPM display perfectly shows the information we need, especially in the threshold configuration. We have a threshold window as well. For example, if memory goes from 50% to 70%, we can set a threshold to get notified.

The Network Device Monitor itself is very useful. It's also easy to use. 

We like how you can select an individual device and basically, in NPM Network Performance, there are two types of settings. You can discover the devices on auto network discovery. On top of that, you can individually add a device, and if the device is not recognized in the auto-discovery procedure, you can add it manually. You can add MIBs in the Network Device Monitor if the MIBs are not supported. 

We are just monitoring a UPS, and the UPS is not supported in SolarWinds NPM, so what we need to do is individually add that device to the Network Device Monitor. We can individually import the MIBs from the vendor and install them into the NDM Network Device Monitor, and that's the beauty of it.

The initial setup is straightforward. It doesn't take long to install everything.

The product is stable. 

We can scale the solution if we need to.