SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Score9.4 out of 10

57 Reviews and Ratings

What is SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset?

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 tools such as Real-time NetFlow Analyzer, Config Downloader, and Config Compare. SolarWinds Orion integration is offered to make troubleshooting a network easier and faster, allowing users to start tools contextually from any monitored element in Orion and significantly cut resolution time.

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Perform network stress tests with Engineer's Toolset WAN Killer. You don’t need to use real traffic for studying network activities, like testing traffic and load balancing. Instead, deploy Engineer's Toolset WAN Killer to help interactively test connections and adjust the IP traffic generated to achieve the desired network load based on your requirements.

Quickly troubleshoot your network with enhanced ping capabilities and packet route tracing, among other network bandwidth usage and monitoring tools included in ETS.

Using ETS, you can run scans to gain insight into how routers, hubs switches, and other devices are configured by analyzing SNMP queries and viewing MIB attributes. ETS is designed to help you more easily understand whether your network and ports are using appropriate settings.

Config Compare, a part of ETS, is built to compare the running configuration of a Cisco router with the startup configuration. With the Cisco configuration compare tool, you can easily detect the changes made to the network, switch, and router configurations that are not committed to non-volatile memory (NVRAM).

Manage your IP network from discovery to address tracking. Discover subnets on a seed router and scan the subnet or a range of IP addresses, generate a list of subnets along with their mask, size, range, and broadcast address and actively monitor subnets to identify and track which IP addresses are in use on your network.

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Jacob Garrett View profile

Senior System Engineer in Information Technology at CASTO (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

Compare cisco configs
IP address management
Ping sweep

Cons

[The] Bandwidth gauges could use some updating

Most Important Features

Config Viewer
Ping Sweep
Ip address manager

Return on Investment

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

Alternatives Considered

Wireshark

Other Software Used

Orion, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

Network System Administrator in Information Technology at CentralSquare Technologies (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

Network Discovery
Monitoring
Device Configuration Management

Cons

UI could be smoother
Integration
More features

Most Important Features

Network Discovery
Configuration Management
Log Management

Return on Investment

Knowing the network is great
Stress testing our network helps show where we are week
Cost is reasonable

Steven Tom View profile

Public Safety Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Ada County Sheriff's Office (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

Multitude of tools in one set.
Wide variety of uses for the kit.
Addresses proactivity and reactivity well.

Cons

I wish it looked a little better on the eyes. It looks a bit dated in some of the tools.

Most Important Features

Config Downloader
Port Mapper
Network stress testing/monitoring

Return on Investment

Quicker monitoring for new devices.
Easier visibility into more of the network.
Quick troubleshooting tools.

Nikhil Kumar Sharma View profile

Associate Consultant in Engineering at HCL Technologies (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Debugging Tools
Saves Time for basic checks
Ping, Telnet, SSH right from the console and hence easy user management from console itself

Cons

Licensing structure
More debugging commands support
CLI based automation for script based checks

Most Important Features

Ping Check
Telnet Login
SSH Login
Realtime monitoring

Return on Investment

Diagnostics and Debugging is easy
Diagnosis access on servers are no longer required for end users
Licensing is little tricky
Product bought but not much used

Alternatives Considered

LogicMonitor, PRTG Network Monitor and Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold)

Other Software Used

LogicMonitor, PRTG Network Monitor, Progress WhatsUp Gold (formerly Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold)

Eric Stephenson

Manager IS in Information Technology at Crayola (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

MIB walks on SNMP objects
IP scan of network for discovery
Port scan

Cons

I think as a tool set, it is very solid. If you wanted more, you would be looking for NPM or other management suite tools.

Return on Investment

It shortened the time to diagnose basic issues by deploying the monitoring functions.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM)

Other Software Used

Wireshark, Cisco Firepower 4100 Series, Juniper SRX

PRTG Network Monitor