Hello, We use Solarwinds at my current employer. Solarwinds is more comparable to eHealth in that it is a Network Performance Management tool. It does have a better looking GUI than when I last saw eHealth back in 2007, but there are quirks about it. One that frustrates me is that it refreshes every couple of minutes and then you have that short time interval (a few seconds) where you don't see anything but the browser being refreshed.
As David noted, it is not geared towards a large enterprise for many reasons. A few it that it does not seem to be as stable as either Spectrum or eHealth. It is very cheap, but on a per device basis the cost increases as you add in required servers / pollers and internal support, etc. As for comparison to Spectrum, Solarwinds does not provide a lot of things that Spectrum does. Some of the keys are the Alarm Console, Fault Isolation and Root Cause Analysis (though Solarwinds claims to do it, it not what you expect from an enterprise tool), Topology views that are interactive and easily created, etc. Another key thing I will note is that when we've had problems with devices, Solarwinds does not record all the events that have occurred on that device. For instance, with Spectrum you can look at all events from a device and see whether it was contacted successfully or not. With Solarwinds we may have a situation where the last event recorded for that device is from months in the past. What is bad about this is that we don't know when the last time Solarwinds successfully contacted the device. It boils down to this. If you are a small shop that only needs to know about individual devices than a tool like Solarwinds might work. But it you are a larger shop and have requirements beyond just the individual devices, such as knowing that your networked infrastructure is up, than you need a solution like Spectrum offers. I hope this helps. Regards, John ________________________________ From: david t. klein <[email protected]> To: spectrum <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, June 3, 2010 4:50:40 AM Subject: RE: [spectrum] Spectrum VS SolarWinds Solar Winds is easier to set up and has a better looking GUI, but it lacks some enterprise capabilities, and does not scale well past small/medium enterprise. -- david t. klein Cisco Certified Network Associate (CSCO11281885) Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPI000165615) Redhat Certified Engineer (805009745938860) Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? From:Mahmut Tuncer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 2:15 AM To: spectrum Subject: [spectrum] Spectrum VS SolarWinds Hello, I wonder what are differenses between solarwinds and spectrum. Do you have any comparement between them. Regards * --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] * --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
