SolarWinds Network Management Product Reviews

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor

Derek Schauland reviews Orion NPM v10: The application will give you a very comprehensive view of your environment. The reporting and mapping features alone will likely be a great help in getting others within your organization to see just what the network looks like and where its limits are. This could be a big step toward proactive correction of issues that pop up. Read review »

SolarWinds Orion Network Configuration Manager

Peter Stephenson reviews Orion NCM v5.5 Read the review »
 

Orion Network Configuration Manager Combats Unknown threats with Knowledge

According to reviewer Frank Ohlhorst,"Administrators will find that Orion NCM is much more than a change management tool, the additional features, ease of use and ability to integrate with Orion NPM make the product a unique entry in a growing field of change management solutions, while providing administrators with the most important element of all – Knowledge." Read the review »

A Look at Solar Winds Orion IPSLA Manager

Reviewer Frank Ohlhorst states, "...Orion IP SLA Manager is a must have tool for those supporting cisco powered networks that carry voice as well as other information across multiple sites." Read the review »

Orion Netflow Traffic Analyzer Keeps your Network’s Blood Flowing

Frank Ohlhorst reviews the current release of Orion NTA's improved features. Franks says, "...many of which are “must haves” for harried administrators, including flow-monitoring support for Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA), Application Mapping and the ability to build groups based upon IP Addresses." Read the review »

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor

According to reviewer Frank Ohlhorst, "For those running large heterogeneous networks, Orion NPM may very well be the must-have management tool today." Read the review »

Review: SolarWinds LANSurveyor 10

Mapping out your network with Visio alone isn't ideal. LANSurveyor, from SolarWinds, diagrams and maps your entire network automatically. NetworkManagementSoftware.com takes an in-depth look at how LANSurveyor handles the task. Read review »

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor 9.5

Aaron Leskiw, CCNA, and head technical writer at NetworkManagementSoftware.com, provides an in-depth review of Solarwinds’ Orion Network Performance Manager. Are the expanded features enough to merit the cost over basic tools? Aaron finds the expanded features do indeed pay off... Read review...»

Do You Know What’s About to Bring Down Your Network?

Joseph Moran, veteran technology writer and co-author of "Getting StartED with Windows 7," reviews SolarWinds ipMonitor. Moran writes that ipMonitor has a "simple, straightforward setup" and how "SolarWinds makes it easy to get ipMonitor up and running." Read the review »

SolarWinds Free Tools awarded 5 stars by LaoWei Software Depot

SolarWinds NetFlow Configurator, SolarWinds TFTP Server and SolarWinds Advanced Subnet Calculator all receive top honors.

SolarWinds Orion - Management Made EasyNetwork Computing

Midsize enterprises looking for a feature-rich and cost-friendly network-management product that enhances performance- and fault-management features need look no further. Read the review »

Orion VoIP Monitor earns recognition - awarded five stars by DownloadRage

VoIP Monitor enables you to measure and track the performance of voice quality across Wide Area Networks (WANs), where it matters most. Leveraging Cisco® IP SLAs, VoIP Monitor collects and analyzes VoIP performance statistics including MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss and other important quality of service (QoS) metrics. These features enable you to proactively find the root cause of VoIP performance degradation and measure expected voice quality in advance of a VoIP deployment. Orion VoIP Monitor also simplifies the configuration of IP SLA on Cisco routers – in fact, it can automatically configure the routers to collect VoIP QoS statistics without you ever having to lift a finger. VoIP Monitor delivers these powerful capabilities in an affordable, easy-to-deploy and user-friendly interface that offers the familiarity of Orion. VoIP Monitor ensures that every word is crystal clear with robust capabilities, such as:

• Collecting and analyzing VoIP performance statistics, including MOS, jitter, network latency, packet loss, and other important QoS metrics
• Facilitating capacity planning for existing multi-vendor VoIP deployments and measuring voice quality in advance of new VoIP deployments
• Automatically configuring IP SLA on Cisco routers

LANSurveyor receives top honors from IT Week

Verdict: LANsurveyor 10 is an impressive network management package, boasting features that are usually only found on packages costing three times the price. Read the review »

ipMonitor awarded 4 out of 5 stars from IT Week

IpMonitor 9.0 makes it easy for admins to spot anything untoward occurring on the network. Read the review »

SolarWinds Exchange Monitor Receives Top Review from Tucows

SolarWinds Exchange Monitor recently received a 5 Cow Rating from www.tucows.com for its ability to provide real-time insight into Exchange services, mail queue sizes, and host server health.

A quick look at the free SolarWinds Exchange Monitor dashboard tool

SolarWinds' Exchange Monitor gets high praise from blogger Henrik Walther for its ease of use and real-time monitoring capabilities.

SolarWinds Redefines Network Configuration ManagementeWeek

According to Frank Ohlhorst at eWeek, "Orion NCM 5.0 is a tremendous improvement over the previous product, Cirrus Configuration Manager, providing solution providers with a powerful tool for imposing change management over complex network infrastructures." Read the review »

Review: SolarWinds Gets It Right With Orion 9CRN

CRN reviewer, Samara Lynn, highlights Orion NPM’s ease of installation, detail-rich interface (“Orion 9 has a winning design here—lots of detail without looking cluttered.”) and embedded Thwack message thread as outstanding elements. CRN concludes that Orion NPM is “a great tool for monitoring mid- to enterprise-level networks.” Read the review »

TechWorld Recommends SolarWinds ipMonitor v9.0TechWorld

Techworld recognizes SolarWinds' ipMonitor as "top of the heap" among "the paid-for SMB system monitoring packages on the market right now." Read the review »