- What was life like before using SolarWinds? (Include what you were using and why you decided it was time for a change)
- Before SW, we used multiple monitoring tools. We had a horrible case of tool sprawl and did not use full functionality of the tools.
- Which SolarWinds product(s) saved your bacon?
- NPM, WPM, NTA
- Did you consider other options, and why did you choose SolarWinds?
- We did consider other options( Nagios, HP Openview) however, the granularity and ease of use was a major deciding factor that lead us to SW.
- How has life been since you've rolled out SolarWinds in your environment?
- We slowly rolled out SW as the licensing on our other tools were coming to an end. After we stood SW up with a few nodes, management decided to skip the testing and head straight to production. It has been a bit stressful implementing SW as there are so many products, but much nicer to have everything we need in one location. As we continue to enable functionality of the products, the more we like the tool. With the additional knowledge and support of Thwack, I dont know why we didnt switch earlier.