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"Has really nice roll-up dashboards."
"The tool for forecasting capacity is valuable."
"The best thing about this solution is that you can check for the infrastructure and system updates that you might need to be compliant with the Cloud."
"Mobile application is the most valuable feature for us. We can monitor all the storages on our phones. It's really good."
"Fewer vulnerabilities have been observed in the four years we have used the solution."
"We are able to go in and actually leverage the thick client for a nice easy drag and drop solution."
"MultiWAN and Balance service"
"It is easy to implement."
"The benefit is easy installation. Thus, the model approach of the product and out-of-the-box probes, which deliver direct value."
"DX UIM is scalable."
"It is the foundation for our monitoring solution."
"I can use the Drag and Drop feature to build dashboards within minutes."
"This solution allows us to have an overview of the infrastructure and identify areas where the performance isn't optimal, or where upgrades could be carried out."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"It's easy to understand, even if you are not too technical."
"The benefit of this solution is the reporting. We're able to report on and see our network in a graphical form. We are able to detect when a device is added to a network."
"SolarWinds NPM is a scalable solution since it can handle a huge number of users."
"I like SolarWinds support because it's 24/7. You describe your issues, your situation and maybe two or three hours later you can discuss a solution with a technical engineer."
"Supporting legacy systems is an area that can be improved."
"The reporting capabilities of this solution could be improved."
"PowerScale is the only file system offered and that is limiting."
"In terms of improvement, they should enhance the product range."
"Doesn't do well in terms of integrating with technologies other than Dell."
"DX UIM's reporting and customization need to be improved."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"We've had issues with pulling reports."
"We would like the navigation of this solution to be more user friendly for our system administrators."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue."
"I think it can be improved by a greater provision of specialized technical support, as there are very few trained personnel there."
"Within this product there are individual probes, and each of these probes doesn't always necessarily output the same kind of information into our database. So when we try to collect what's called QoS data, from one probe we might get a ton of information, lots of good stuff that we can use in our database, but then from another probe, we might not get so much or we might not be able to pull the things that we want to."
"The aesthetic widgets should be dynamic widgets, so the customization can be even more customizable."
"The solution could be more secure."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"The reporting module that got integrated into the system itself, used to be a standalone solution and I preferred that."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"The solution needs to integrate with additional SDN technologies that are part of the hyper market."
"The only real caveat that we have or that I have an issue with is when I go on vacation, it's a little hard for me to go and modify alerts so that I don't get alerted about things when I'm on vacation."
"Robustness of network element mapping tool could be better"
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