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  • Likelihood to recommend8.26/10

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They are responsive, helpful, and reliable. Their forum is full of advise from other users and it is a great resource not just for solarwinds products, but in general.
What i like most about SolarWinds RMM is the the integration of multiple software solutions in one location. Also the SSO to other RMM software like Backup is great.
SolarWinds has a great solutions and been happy with the support. They give generous discounts and allow very attractive solutions to provide more features and products to our clients.
I got a call that we would get extra charges and the value of the product dropped. I paid and asked to cancel.
Needs training to use, so many things to do, it can become easy to get lost or forget where the lesser tools are placed or what their called.
The biggest problem is that the agent can really take over CPU and memory.
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Derek S.

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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SolarWinds RMM (formerly N-Able) is a great RMM tool

Reviewed 4 years ago

Great solution for an RMM tool. The management of the alerts and system is the best overall of the competitors. Would recommend as long as the PSA tool links to it well.

Pros

Very intuitive interface and easy to learn. Easy to navigate and manage individual endpoints and quiet noisy alerts. Great integration with direct hardware monitoring as well.

Cons

Remote access software has historically been an additional feature. Very competitive market and some aspects are not the "best" in the market, including remotely connecting to computers. SolarWinds is also only breaking into the PSA market so there is not a direct connecting service to link on day 1 without looking at other vendors.

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Chris B.

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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A decent mix with different tools

Reviewed 3 years ago

Their platform has absolutely put us in a better position for supporting our users working across multiple locations and offices.

Pros

Solarwinds is building a very broad set of tools helping MSPs and admins manage corporate IT users, networks, and assets. I really like that a big part of their strategy consists of recurring available trainings of not only their own software, but best practices. I have already learned a great deal working with their platform.

Cons

They are still growing and adding on. It sometimes gets a little frustrating that all the toolsets are not directly integrated into their RMM platform.

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Shane S.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend1/10

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Loaded with Hidden Fees, Quick to Try and Scam You

Reviewed 5 months ago

An utter nightmare.Within literally ONE WEEK of signing up, we got a notice saying that the rates were being hiked by 10% for all customers. We had to fight to just keep out $99/mo introductory rate.But they had the last laugh, as they continuously billed us at $148/mo for more than half of the time we've been with the service. We deactivated a user that had left our organization and activated a new...

Pros

The initial price of $99/mo for up to 3 users seemed very attractive to us as an affordable entry into the space. A unified platform for all RMM tools also seemed attractive to us. However, we were very wrong with assuming it was unified.

Cons

The "N" in "N-ABLE" apparently stands for "Nickel-And-Diming" as that's exactly what they did at every turn. After an exciting trial period with the platform (which was kicked off with great sales people), all of the features that were represented to us in the sales calls were suddenly stripped away and pitched as "add-ons" to the introductory price that we should have known was too good to be true.Beyond...

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Javier G.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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You don't need to spend more money elsewhere

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

The main pro for us has been that it is pay what you use. Many other RMM tools will lock you into 3 year contracts and make you buy hundreds of seats and you will pay for them regardless if you use them or not. We loved that the remote control tool was based on Teamviewer

Cons

The initial interface was kind of clunky. And we really didn't like when they changed the remote control client. We've gotten used to it now though.

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Danny M.

Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Amazing remote manamgement software

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

I love how simple it is to manage my systems with this software. I can remotely control every single endpoint in my organisation, pull an assest list when I need it, keep an eye on virus threats and even deploy virus protection all via a simple interface

Cons

The only additional feature I'd like to see is the ability to freeze the remote display, so the user cannot see what actions are being performed, like entering sensetive parts of systems etc.

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Nigel Z.

Computer & Network Security, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Great features and value

Reviewed 4 years ago

I am able to keep the clients I have engaged and continue to service them with other IT needs. It works great for improving the client's performance and increasing my bottom line.

Pros

I like that this software is cost effective for a startup and can expand with many features to use. I can be sure that the clients have their machines up and running all the time.

Cons

I would like the software to have an option for the client to cancel a reboot of their machine.

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Rex S.

Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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It is WORTH a Consideration!!!

Reviewed 5 years ago

SolarWinds has a great solutions and been happy with the support. They give generous discounts and allow very attractive solutions to provide more features and products to our clients. Its a new solution, so they have issues, but they do seem to take care of them rapidly. If something does not seem to work for us they will discount it, and allow us to integrate it slowly. The price is attractive and a consideration for anyone in the MSP RMM or MSSP business.

Pros

Starting using SolarWinds shortly after they offered a reseller solution for RMM and MSP's. The features are wide and the prices is mostly on par with other mid tear offerings. The ease of loading the remote client software is good, and better than many others. The broad range of addons is nice, but can be costly fast! Tailoring to each client is what we do, so we add the features based on the...

Cons

The user interface needs work to be easier for entry level staff. The reporting details in some modules seem to be incomplete. The cost structure for each item, needs to be redone. Very hard to determine exact pricing for wholesale cost versus retail selling price.

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Darell B.

Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Solar Winds is a Great addition to any technician doing remote monitoring and management

Reviewed 3 years ago

My overall experience has been positive as the software is a setup and forget automation for updates and detection of harmful software or sites on your client computers

Pros

I like the dash board setup and being able to select features for all my clients or individually. The antivirus software detection's are very accurate without false positive infections. The reporting feature can be scheduled and sent to clients emails concerning alerts or problems.

Cons

The software is a little frustrating to get setup and monitoring sometimes errors occur but when you work through the issues the software does an outstanding job of watching your clients

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Computer & Network Security, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Pretty awesome stuff

Reviewed 4 years ago

Great software, we implement it for all our contracted customers and use it on a daily basis. :)

Pros

What i like most about SolarWinds RMM is the the integration of multiple software solutions in one location. Also the SSO to other RMM software like Backup is great. The option to use Take Control is something we use everyday to support our contracted customers.

Cons

Little things like not beeing able to backup an SQL server on a normal pc, you'd need a server installation for that. and then also pay the price of the server. Also, the RMM console is a bit slow at times.

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Accounting, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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SolarWinds makes a fantastic RMM tool.

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

What I like most about SolarWinds RMM is it's value. I believe you get the most bang for your buck compared to other RMMs. In a recent survey among MSPs nationwide, SolarWinds was even ranked the best overall.

Cons

Patch management could be better, but I know they are working hard on it. Right now it's a bit complicated to setup and use.

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James W.

Information Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Solid software with good function, but not perfect.

Reviewed 4 years ago

We've been using this dashboard for a long time and it does everything light solid antivirus for my residential clients up to medium scale commercial asset tracking and maintenance operations.

Pros

The single pane of glass to manage antivirus, backups, in detail alerts, and asset tracking is really nice. I use it to manage nearly a thousand workstations and have used it since it was called "hound dog RMM"

Cons

several parts have a fair amount of hassle to set up and administer, notably the antivirus installation and patch management. Alert status is always green or red, there's no functionality to have a "low priority issue", so I have to treat every failed check as a possible emergency. I'd like to be able to say something like "if the backup is one day out of date, mark it yellow, 2 days mark red" or something like that.

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Bill B.

Information Technology and Services, self-employed

Used other for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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There is no perfect RMM tool

Reviewed 5 years ago

Solarwinds was one of my stops on the way to the perfect RMM system. After trialing a number of them for months, I learned there is no perfect RMM. Each one has different strengths and weaknesses. Solarwinds RMM is strong on usability, integration, and pricing. They were, when I trialed it over a year ago, weak on patching and to a lesser degree, automation.

Pros

The trial period is a full 30 days. The sales and support teams are available to help with setup questions and problems during that time. My experience with sales was overall positive - they were not pushy. The product is cloud hosted, no option for self-hosting (they offer another RMM that can be.) The monitoring agent is unobtrusive on the target PCs. It's possible to remotely manage most of what...

Cons

Running tasks and scripts is anything but real time. You might wait hours to learn if a script had run or not, or what the output was. Patch management gave the appearance of being complete and granular, but again, for me, confidence in the actual state of systems was not there, needed lots of double checking. AV and backup were reliable.

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Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Just OK

Reviewed a year ago

It’s OK. Not sure I’m ready to change from it. Have created many custom jobs.

Pros

Been using the product for years. It’s hard to change another one. It does have many features and integrations.

Cons

It’s expensive and hard to navigate. When a job fails it gives you little to no information about why it fails.

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Marcio P.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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Nice to have all your customers in one place

Reviewed 4 years ago

Customer service is hard to reach and slow to respond

Pros

The fact that I have all my customer computers in one place

Cons

Updates fail constantly and the reason is not clear. Also it doesn't work with trendmicro antivirus which is my solution

Vendor response

We're sorry to hear you've experienced some challenges with customer service as we always strive to deliver the best service experience possible. This obviously wasn't what you experienced and that's troublesome. We will reach out to you shortly to hopefully assist you further.

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Jonathan H.

Computer & Network Security, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Super produit mais relativement couteux

Reviewed 2 years ago

Globalement très satisfait, je n'aurais pas forcément changé si leur politique de prix n'évoluait pas si souvent sans prévenir à l'avance.

Pros

Très complet, permet d'aller au bout des choses, Interface claire présentant l'essentiel rapidement

Cons

La politique de prix trop volatile. Certaines fonctionnalités plus difficiles à trouver, mettre en œuvre

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Matthew C.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Does what it says no exaggeration.

Reviewed 4 years ago
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The software does exactly what the sales team say.

Cons

None really. Issues are with post sales team have them set up your accounting correctly the first time.

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Jim M.

Retail, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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SolarWinds Monitoring Tool

Reviewed 4 years ago

I would recommend to start with one or two features and add others to reduce the overall impact of its initial rollout and use

Pros

This software will monitor just about anything on your network (except for the coffee pot). Server status is its best known function. You can set parameters for the monitoring both local and devices over the network. Other features available are anti-virus, help desk, notifications, etc

Cons

With all of the options available for this software, the screen can become busy.

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James K.

Machinery, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Works as a remote desktop for remoting into computers or servers

Reviewed 4 years ago

Overall it has been good. It has allowed me to remote into computers and servers and correct issues with no problems. Only if the agent eats up a lot of CPU and memory will you have an issue with slowness.

Pros

Easy to get setup. Install the windows agent on a computer or Server and then add a discovery job to find that device. Can also be used for cell phones, printers and any network device you need to monitor. Allows multiple options form Take Control to Remote Desktop, Java web control.

Cons

Can sometimes be flaky. The biggest problem is that the agent can really take over CPU and memory. Sometimes to the point of making the device you are remoted into really slow. Tried everything suggested on SolarWinds website to mitigate this to no avail. Location tracking for cell phones is also buggy. Soem phones report location correctly, others will not report at all, so if soemone loses a phone, good luck trying to find it. Good thing for Google tracking.

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Kevin E.

Information Technology and Services, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Powerful, but complex monitoring and backup

Reviewed 5 years ago

I'm using the software to monitor and back up business servers across multiple clients. Other than an outage due to the removal of less secure SSL and TLS protocols from the servers I monitor, the software has been solid. In the case of the outage, support stuck with me for quite some time over multiple sessions to make sure the issue was resolved. TOP MARKS FOR SUPPORT!!

Pros

A wide array of sensors to monitor servers and workstations. A powerful dashboard provides a quick look at the state of systems being monitored. Integrated file and SQL backup and antivirus provides a one stop shop for protection and monitoring.

Cons

It can be challenging to resolve issues when they arise with the software, or underlying issues that affect the software. Given the complexity and nature of it, this can be expected to an extent.

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Carl K.

Computer Networking, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Long Time User

Reviewed 4 years ago

Scheduled automated reboots, seeing issues before they become major problems.

Pros

It's easy to use and deploy and is packed with functionality.

Cons

Nothing that comes to mind at the moment - I'm satisfied with it.

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Ron S.

Education Management, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Good Patch Management Software

Reviewed 2 years ago
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Easy to deploy and set up automation's.

Cons

Sometimes windows updates need to be manually pushed, this is common for this type of software.

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Louis B.

Information Technology and Services, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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An all-in-one solution for providing IT monitoring

Reviewed 4 years ago

This platforms allows me to manage about 50 customers with more than 20 servers and 100 desktops from one single location. Thanks to the remote access feature, I can solve more than 80% of my customer problems without having to go onsite.

Pros

Complete solution: rich monitoring features including SW updates management and backups Easy to deploy: o need to spend lots of time reading the documentation Flexible: it does what you need to do

Cons

Nothing really! The backup/restore option could probably be more user friendly The Android version is a bit disapointing today

JR
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Jacob R.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Great for small to medium sized MSPs

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

The ease of use, and how everything just works.

Cons

I wish there was more integration with their ticketing software.

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Used daily for 2+ years

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Network monitoring tool with a lot of information to help you track your environment

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

The tool has a lot of features out of the box with the basic module purchased - add the nodes of your environment and collect historical data on them. The main features make network monitoring and tracking simple - with stats and graphs. Reporting is also great for giving to managers. Excellent support when calling in.

Cons

Out of the box a simple setup, each module though becomes pricey for small/medium businesses - each comes with it's own maintenance plan. Reporting takes some knowledge of SQL for setting up the reporting profiles and can be confusing.

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Simon E.

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Remote Monitoring made easy

Reviewed 5 years ago

Overall and cost effective solution for monitoring systems which normally would be a manual process.

Pros

Extremely easy to deploy with default agent settings you setup in minutes. Advanced users can customise the alerts, monitor events of any type. Email alerts on failures. Other addon's can be added to the console such as patch management, antivirus, backup and more.

Cons

If I had to pick something I would say occasionally (once a year if that) the agent service would need a restart as the server would stop reporting it. You still get notified of this so not a massive problem.