SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Information Reviews & Insights

Score9.4 out of 10

57 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

IP Address Management: Several users have found the product's IP address management feature to be very helpful for comparing Cisco configurations. This has made it easier for them to identify discrepancies and troubleshoot network issues.

Ping Sweep Functionality: The ping sweep functionality of the product has been particularly useful, with many reviewers mentioning that it allows them to quickly check the connectivity and availability of multiple devices on the network. This saves time and effort in troubleshooting.

Debugging Tools: Many users appreciate the debugging tools offered by the product, as they find it convenient to be able to perform tasks like ping, telnet, and SSH right from the console. This streamlined approach makes user management more efficient and enhances overall productivity.

Reviews

3 Reviews

Information

A bit out dated and not fancy - but gets the job done

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Some of the modules included with the toolset are invaluable, such as the bandwidth interface monitors and other monitoring modules. It's useful to have locally installed software that engineers can use without the need to be logged into monitoring or jump servers, or rely solely on using the monitoring system.

Pros

interface monitoring
real time bandwidth monitoring
mib walk

Cons

outdated ui
refresh of features is needed
some tools should be EOL and new ones introduced

Likelihood to Recommend

It's tricky to determine if you should recommend or not recommend the Engineer's Toolset because there are SolarWinds modules that might be already running on the monitoring system that people can use, however, the real time bandwidth monitoring and the ease of being able to run these tools locally on your machine instead of through a browser is definitely a win.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Computer Networking company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Great collection of tools for a wide variety of needs

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 18, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is used as an improved toolset for many common functions that exist otherwise in Windows but with greatly improved features over the native tools. The SNMP tools, ping and port sweep, and DNS tools are especially helpful. Network discovery and WAN Killer are tools that don't exist natively and are often especially useful.

Pros

The SNMP tools are great for discovering and troubleshooting monitoring issues.
DNS audit is great for validating existing records and discovering inaccuracies.
WAN Killer works well for testing out QoS and verifying the WAN circuits delivered are provisioned properly.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Overall the toolset is a great collection for a wide variety of needs. Some individual tools are the best I have seen and some could use some improvement to become best in class. The monitoring tools, specifically, could use some improvement. The unifying tool front-end is clunky and should be improved.

Verified User

Former Employee in Information Technology (Newspapers company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

10 years of experience

Great monitoring tool!

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 18, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use [SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset] on a regular basis to monitor our production database servers. It helps to identify issues, sends alerts and allows to see the historical data up to 2 weeks, which is helpful when you have to research the blocking that happened off hours. The monitoring system is very robust and useful in many ways. Also helps to tune the queries and monitor the instances. Highly recommended tool.

Pros

Various monitoring
Stores history
Suggests indices
Helps to find the SQL query text
Helps to see what machines/users the bad queries are coming from
Shows current blocking session

Cons

Navigation could be better
Please, create the favorite instances links, custom made, that i can create for myself (for those servers that i check the most)
Create RDP button, so i can connect to the instance from the monitoring page

Likelihood to Recommend

[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.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Telecommunications company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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