SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 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

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is a must for Enterprise environments

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 2, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

There are many features that this SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset provides. We use this toolset for stress testing on our network. We also use it for discovering devices on our network automatically. Also, and a huge one, keeping track of device configuration and log management. There is more [than] this toolset provides that we use within our [organization], but these are the main ones.

Pros

Network Discovery
Monitoring
Device Configuration Management

Cons

UI could be smoother
Integration
More features

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is well suited for any organization that wishes to gather more information about [its] network. When you have a small environment, this might not be as important. But, when you get to 20+ routers, multiple switches, and more, this toolset is great to keep track of what's going on.

Thomas Osborne

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

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Hidden Gem in SolarWinds Tools Suite

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is used in some of our customer's SolarWinds environment as an adhoc utility for quick debugging of some of the issues which requires user's to login manually on SolarWinds NMS servers and then test it. These toolsets helps suer to allow basic checks right from the SolarWinds orion console such as for ping check of the devices, SSH connectivity, Telnet connectivity of devices from SolarWinds NMS servers.

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

Likelihood to Recommend

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is well suited in dynamic environments where monitoring teams and network teams requires to login to the server again and again for basic troubleshooting such as Ping Check, Telnet logging and SSH Logging. However most of the users just purchase this product but never use this since the way its licensing is designed is not cost effective.

Nikhil Kumar Sharma

Associate Consultant in Engineering at HCL Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

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Must have network tools.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

June 25, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently have this installed on our network engineers 'Jumpbox,' server that is centrally located for all to use. This allows anyone to login and utilize the software to troubleshoot a vast array of issues, or even to simulate issues for proof of concept testing. With so many tools in the toolset, it is a troubleshooter's best friend.

Pros

Network Stress Tests.
Port mapping.
Open port checking.
MIB walking.
CPU/Memory monitoring.

Cons

User interface feels dated.

Likelihood to Recommend

We have used it to test our SDWAN bandwidth during our initial rollout. The WAN Killer does just that, and you can see how much traffic your wan links can take. It has also been helpful in identifying open ports that we need to lock down to ensure we are achieving compliance with SOX, HIPAA, and PCI. This is a tool for network engineers, I can't see use cases for non-network related tasks.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Law Practice company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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