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 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."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to provide insights into server status and alerts."
"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."
"The solution has good alerts. Notifications are sent via email to technicians. You can filter the kinds of alerts you want to receive as well. It's excellent."
"I'd rate technical support at eight out of ten. They are helpful and fast."
"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."
"The component and cable monitoring are good. SolarWinds is more intuitive and user-friendly than AppDynamics. The AppDynamics console is more complex because it's a more feature-rich solution, so it's not easy for somebody to pick it up."
"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."
"The more valuable feature of this solution is the Exchange feature."
"SSL Certificate Monitoring and Expiry Alerting"
"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."
"They could enable notifications on emails and phones regarding control panel information."
"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."
"Support for the IBM Mainframe is needed."
"The setup was complex. We had local support to assist us."
"A lot of times, we have to do a lot of manual cleanups."
"This product has no real downside unless they fail to continue development of its capabilities."
"When you implement SolarWinds on a larger scale my customers complain about the speed."
"It lacks a user experience for measuring things like the end-to-end time for which a user waits for a specific response in the system. In the application layer, it has some very basic stuff. You have to build your own with manuscripts and things like that."
"It should also be easier to upgrade SolarWinds. AppDynamics is harder to deploy but easier to upgrade. So AppDynamics takes a lot of time and effort to install, but you can upgrade it in minutes. SolarWinds is the opposite. It's easy to deploy, but upgrades take forever. To date, nobody can complete it on time, so the production environment is sitting idle."
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Lenovo XClarity Controller is ranked 16th in Server Monitoring with 2 reviews while SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is ranked 10th 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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