We performed a comparison between Lenovo XClarity Controller and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Server Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product's most valuable feature is its ability to provide insights into server status and alerts."
"The most valuable feature of Lenovo XClarity is the ease of use because of the interface browser that is highly compatible and it has mobile web management."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"Monitoring the components on your devices with out of the box monitors or the ability to create new ones (SAM)"
"I am impressed with the tool's AppStack feature which mainly helps us in the identification process. This feature can give an overview of the fault and help us identify the issues for performance degradation. Instead of looking at multiple places, we can look at a single place to identify the issues."
"It is simple to implement and can provide fairly decent Windows-based monitoring, beyond simple SNMP. It is great for monitoring newbies and smaller shops."
"The solution is end-to-end from the network and the application to the processes. Everything about the enterprise infrastructure is being covered by the solution. It's easy to use and easy to navigate and one of the leaders among monitoring solutions."
"The product integrates with Remedy."
"The most valuable feature is application monitoring."
"Management Console - Managing service to each server enrolled in the Solarwinds is much easier. Using a web base console, you can control your service much convenient way. There is no need to login remotely. It save a lot of time and effort."
"They could enable notifications on emails and phones regarding control panel information."
"Lenovo XClarity can improve the dashboard integration. For example, graphs could be better. Additionally, more integration with other vendors is needed. For example, VMware has integration with a lot of vendors."
"It would be helpful if the solution could integrate more with the security compliances, like this IDSS, etc."
"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."
"Nodes in Azure are able to be monitored with the use of agents, but this does not apply to cloud service offerings that are not node based."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"The product needs to reduce its price."
"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."
"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."
"The templates could use improvement. Currently, they are quite complex. They should have drag-and-drop functionality instead. It would make it easier to use."
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Lenovo XClarity Controller is ranked 15th in Server Monitoring with 2 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 11th in Server Monitoring with 38 reviews. Lenovo XClarity Controller is rated 9.0, while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Lenovo XClarity Controller writes "Quick scaling, easy to use, and useful mobile management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor writes "We use this product for base and application monitoring. ". Lenovo XClarity Controller is most compared with Zabbix, HPE System Management and Huawei iBMC, whereas SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is most compared with Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Prometheus. See our Lenovo XClarity Controller vs. SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor report.
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