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The SolarWinds UX (User Experience) team is interested in learning more about other tools you use in addition to/to supplement SolarWinds. Do you use other monitoring products in addition to SolarWinds? We want to see how you use those and understand use cases!  Do you use other IT products you wish integrated better with SolarWinds? We want to see that, too! Please comment below or email Kellie Mecham directly at kellie.mecham@solarwinds.com for more details.

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    Not really any.  We currently use SolarWinds for all our monitoring with the exception of log management.  We use another tool which will be going away and SolarWinds LEM might take its place.  We currently use NPM to monitor most of the network.  The best resources I have found so far are All nodes managed by NPM, Nodes not up, Hardware Health Overview, “All Groups” to monitor group status, Last ## Events, High Errors and discards, Interfaces with High Utilization and Nodes with Problems. I have also created a resource to monitor batteries that need to be replaced on our APC UPSs.  The other members of my team use NTA to determine what traffic is traversing our links and resolve congestion problems and NCM to push and track configuration changes.  We are just starting to dabble in SAM and VNQM.  I have caught many problems with hardware when I turned on hardware monitoring like switch power supplies and stacking cable issues.  The Down Interfaces helped us find an issue with one of our Cisco core switches/routers that had a bad/flakey card.  We do have WUG and EMC ViPR SRM in house, but it is not being used by our department.  My utopian goal would be to have SolarWinds become the tool of choice for end visibility into our environment and to expedite problem resolution via one pane of glass with a group of applications that are all working together to establish the source of the problem.

     

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    Not really any.  We currently use SolarWinds for all our monitoring with the exception of log management.  We use another tool which will be going away and SolarWinds LEM might take its place.  We currently use NPM to monitor most of the network.  The best resources I have found so far are All nodes managed by NPM, Nodes not up, Hardware Health Overview, “All Groups” to monitor group status, Last ## Events, High Errors and discards, Interfaces with High Utilization and Nodes with Problems. I have also created a resource to monitor batteries that need to be replaced on our APC UPSs.  The other members of my team use NTA to determine what traffic is traversing our links and resolve congestion problems and NCM to push and track configuration changes.  We are just starting to dabble in SAM and VNQM.  I have caught many problems with hardware when I turned on hardware monitoring like switch power supplies and stacking cable issues.  The Down Interfaces helped us find an issue with one of our Cisco core switches/routers that had a bad/flakey card.  We do have WUG and EMC ViPR SRM in house, but it is not being used by our department.  My utopian goal would be to have SolarWinds become the tool of choice for end visibility into our environment and to expedite problem resolution via one pane of glass with a group of applications that are all working together to establish the source of the problem.

     

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