N-able N-sight RMM vs. SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

N-able N-sight RMM

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
N-able N-sight RMM	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds Remote Monitoring & Management (RMM) is a cloud-based system monitoring offering for Managed Service Providers. It provides a full monitoring and management suite, including automation and threat detection capabilities, and can integrate with other SolarWinds products.	N/A
SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps users monitor and troubleshoot a network with over 60 tools for network management. ETS allows users to monitor and receive alerts in real time on network availability and health, and perform network diagnostics for faster troubleshooting and resolution of complex network issues. With ETS users can deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper or advanced Subnet Calculator, manage Cisco® devices with specialized…	$1,585 Per Instance

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Community Pulse
	N-able N-sight RMM	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Considered Both Products	N-able N-sight RMM MR Matt Relouw Senior Technical Specialist Chose N-able N-sight RMM Economical pricing, scalability from a small start, ease of setup were major factors in choosing N-able RMM over other platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose N-able N-sight RMM Recently evaluated NinjaOne and was very impressed. Have been with the (original) N-able RMM tool for nearly a decade, but considering a switch. NinjaOne's interface is very modern and slick. Lots of great features and integrations. Incentivized Helpful? JB Jack Bowling Computer and Information Systems Manager Chose N-able N-sight RMM Much easier to use and less bulky of a program. Also cheaper and easier to manage. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose N-able N-sight RMM It is the same product. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Hannagan Support Team Leader & 3rd Line Support Consultant Chose N-able N-sight RMM Single pane of glass for the majority of applications from Web Protect to Patch Management and Antivirus. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose N-able N-sight RMM Solarwinds RMM is designed as a tool for Remote Monitoring. The other guys have their RMM as a platform to sell their other products. With SolarWinds RMM, you don't get hassled to buy another part of the program or put your entire business into their ecosystem. It's a program … Incentivized Helpful? MM Marco Medde Technical Sales Engineer Chose N-able N-sight RMM I chose SolarWinds for its easy-to-use HUB, for payments, but also for all technical features which other programs don't show. It's done well with all the releases (agents for mac, windows, and Linux OS). Incentivized Helpful? Eric King Owner Chose N-able N-sight RMM SolarWinds seems a much cleaner and easier to administer solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose N-able N-sight RMM We only tested an older version of Labtech. By comparison, the newer version of Labtech is much more competitive to Solarwinds RMM than it used to be. Connectwise automate has far better integration options for our PSA than Solarwinds RMM, down to very granular changes for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose N-able N-sight RMM SolarWinds definitely is the the most ready out of the box as far as getting is up and running and you can start using it where other system go from need ing a little setup like importing MIBS to completely needing to configure the system. As far a performance once things are … Incentivized Helpful? T.J. Young Account Manager Chose N-able N-sight RMM We have been very pleased with our transition, primarily because of cost. Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Forward Technical Analyst Chose N-able N-sight RMM SolarWinds offers more customization out of the box and allows us to build the monitoring environment to the specifications we require. We are not locked into a specific tool set with no customization options. Incentivized Helpful? Les Klassen Hamm Owner Chose N-able N-sight RMM SolarWinds provided the easiest entry into the RMM game, requiring a smaller upfront commitment, great tools, and the best early experience with sales reps, engineers, and onboarding. Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Widjaja IT Consultant Chose N-able N-sight RMM We moved away from Kaseya to Max Focus, which later became SolarWinds. At the time we were having lots of issues using Kaseya, with failed alerting as well as reporting. SolarWinds (Max Focus) addressed our issues. As a small MSP, the dashboard panel is intuitive, allowing the … Incentivized Helpful? BL Bryant Lee Managed and Cloud Services Lead Chose N-able N-sight RMM SolarWinds supplies a price competitive product that is feature rich and constantly adding new offerings in an ever-changing market. Incentivized Helpful? Adrian Takacs Infrastructure Engineer Chose N-able N-sight RMM Labtech didn't offer as many tools as SW RMM at the time I was using it. LogMeIn is one of the worst tools I had to use, I got feed-up with the fact that I always had to provide a username and password to connect to a PC. TeamViewer is not quite the product SW RMM is. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose N-able N-sight RMM It gives you the ability to control your setup without over-complicating things. You have the option to set up in your own environment, whether it's a public cloud or on-premise, or you can use their hosted solution. Some of the other RMMs may not allow the flexibility to do … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose N-able N-sight RMM We went with Solarwinds as the interface from the IT standpoint was better, and they are a trusted company I have worked with for 20 years. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Gombosi Network Engineer I Chose N-able N-sight RMM They're all apart of the same family and work with one another to give you the best awareness possible. Incentivized Helpful? Tyler Despain Help Desk Manager Chose N-able N-sight RMM I haven't uaed any other remote monitoring software. RMM was the only one at the company we used. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose N-able N-sight RMM Solarwinds RMM is very easy to use and can be managed with very little training. All other RMM tools tested were overly complicated and did not fit our current business needs. We were able to implement this solution to all our customers within 3 months of our start date and … Incentivized Helpful? Steve Putnam Senior Cloud Services Architect and Engineer Chose N-able N-sight RMM Solarwinds (at the time Maxfocus) was a better value proposition then the other products evaluated. The low per unit cost and entry point allowed us to gradually add additional features. The installation process was very easy, as is adding new devices. We have very few … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose N-able N-sight RMM Solarwinds is making a comeback, in that when it was purchased the development was put on hold for what seemed like multiple years, because of that we moved to LabTech (which I feel is superior in many ways). I've heard that Solarwinds is getting better, but still not up to par … Incentivized Helpful? Derek Schroeder Service Manager Chose N-able N-sight RMM Solarwinds RMM is a superior product to Kaseya, although they are extremely similar. ConnectWise Automate is an extremely powerful software which does a better job of handling scripting and third party application updates. It also provides a few more options when it comes to … Incentivized Helpful? Dave Gillam President & CEO Chose N-able N-sight RMM Best overall feature set, longevity in market, pricing model. Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset [Wireshark is just] not the same. It feels like in incomplete product. [SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset] is complete, not buggy and is supported[.] Incentivized Helpful? TO Thomas Osborne Network System Administrator Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I haven't compared any tools similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. This might be because I'm pretty biased when it comes to monitoring, and reporting solutions. I've found that SolarWinds provides the biggest bang for the buck in my opinion. I'm sure there are other … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Tom Public Safety Systems Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We honestly didn't look at much beyond this because of all of the tools this toolset had in it. We found a use for a good chunk of them right away, and are finding more every month it seems like. We really wanted to make use of the majority of the tools included so we could … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset To be honest, I'm not aware of any other toolset from a competitor that is remotely comparable. All other monitoring systems/vendors tend to use standard browser viewable monitoring systems and the option to use a locally installed software, to obtain the same results is not … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We have used LogicMonitor, PRTG and WhatsUp Gold previously which are similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset capability. However SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is completely unique with features like - Realtime monitoring, diagnostics on the fly, network discovery, easy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset The suite of tools included is better than any other offering that I have found. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of … Incentivized Helpful? ES Eric Stephenson Manager IS Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I love the NPM package, but if you are doing one-off monitoring to diagnose, SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is more than adequate. The main drawback with SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is the monitoring is only valid as long as you have the laptop on (obviously). NPM provides for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Because it's a great tool. Very useful, convenient and reliant, We use it to monitor out production servers and it works just great. I use it pretty much every day, and it is very good monitoring system, that allows proactively troubleshoot certain areas, because you can see … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds by far exceeds the abilities of other products, and is more easily tuned to the environments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds NPM and NCM use a lot of the tools available in the toolset. This is a nice combo of the two with a little bit of IPAM thrown in. I would say the toolset is geared more toward the field engineer, that will be doing work that may sever communications to the rest of … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

N-able N-sight RMM

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Monitoring Tasks

Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
	N-able N-sight RMM 10.0 Ratings 30% above category average	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset - Ratings
Remote monitoring	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network device monitoring	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

Management Tasks

Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
	N-able N-sight RMM 10.0 Ratings 29% above category average	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset - Ratings
Patch Management	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Policy-based automation	10.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	N-able N-sight RMM	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Likelihood to Recommend	6.2 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Usability	9.3 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.4 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	N-able N-sight RMM	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Likelihood to Recommend	SolarWinds patch management has had issues over the years. Sometimes requiring manual intervention to get resolved. The UI [with N-able RMM (formerly Solarwinds RMM)] makes it easy to see status of systems and identify any alerts easily. Remotely monitoring the status of servers/computers. Managing the systems, patching, systems maintenance and remote support. Incentivized JB Jack Bowling Computer and Information Systems Manager Read full review	[SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is] a great tool for monitoring database servers, highly recommended. The very good thing is that it keeps the history for two weeks, and you can see the time slice for all the server activities. Helps a lot to identify the memory and CPU bottlenecks, research blocking issues and kill the sessions, if necessary. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Thanks to RMM I never feel like I'm unaware as to what's going on in my network. I can be in the office or half a country away and feel completely aware of what's going on. We've had numerous situations over the years where a part of our network is having issues (latency or errors) that the RMM alerts have saved us from a major outage. You can't ask for better proactive alerting. The advanced alerting allows us to stay ahead of issues instead of reacting to them. This gives us confidence in our network and our end users better support. Incentivized Michael Gombosi Network Engineer I Read full review	Debugging Tools Saves Time for basic checks Ping, Telnet, SSH right from the console and hence easy user management from console itself Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Read full review
Cons	There are so many features and options that it can be overwhelming in the beginning. Wish there was a way to add custom fields to reports. The GUI is crowded or links aren't clearly described on certain pages. I find myself forgetting how to get to certain views. The software can start to lag after a while even if the hardware is specced out correctly. I would definitely recommend over-speccing the device. API is just OK, wish they would put more effort into this. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The unifying component that is intended to be the initial interface to the tools seems clunky. I prefer to start the tools individually rather than using it. The port scanner could use some improvements to make it easier to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	The interface is easy to navigate. Setting up policies is straight forward. The antivirus and web filter are simple and exceptions are easy to make. Upgrading the agent is made simple and creating scripts is made fool proof. (Well, almost) Incentivized JB Jack Bowling Computer and Information Systems Manager Read full review	Very easy to use and intuitive. Just be careful with the WAN Killer...it does what it says. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	The ease of use, full functionality, reliability and excellent support.[N-able RMM (formerly Solarwinds RMM)] gives users a full suite of tools with a single installable file. Unlike standard tools, you don't have to install several different executables to be able to have fully protected end points. Incentivized JB Jack Bowling Computer and Information Systems Manager Read full review	Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We only tested an older version of LabTech. By comparison, the newer version of LabTech is much more competitive to Solarwinds RMM than it used to be. ConnectWise Automate has far better integration options for our PSA than Solarwinds RMM, down to very granular changes for automated ticket templates. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of monitoring needed for these types of issues. Having said that the toolset is not made to do full time enterprise level monitoring. With these tools and the toolset I am able to have a more complete view of the network and deliver higher levels of service and quicker responses to issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	The SolarWinds name carries a good bit of clout in the industry. This has definitely helped secure a few deals. The addition of Cloud Backups had a positive impact because we were able to easily add it as a bolt-on for existing clients. We have now added this offering to almost 20% of our managed servers. We are in the process of moving into a "co-managed" business plan. SolarWinds RMM has facilitated this by allowing us to help in-house IT teams with offloading server management and maintenance while they are able to focus on big-picture objectives. Incentivized BL Bryant Lee Managed and Cloud Services Lead Read full review	Spend less time downloading free buggy tools All the tools in one spot, so you don't have to look around for tools Get to the solution sooner Incentivized Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Read full review
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