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Read or contribute a user review for the network tools in SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. Discover how organizations like yours use Engineer's Toolset to troubleshoot their enterprise networks.

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calbor
May 20, 2011
irvine, ca, united states
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This is the best multitasking admin tool on the market!!

Pros:

Easy to Use & Intuitive, Feature Rich, Easy to Install & Maintain, Affordable, Simplifies Network Management

Cons:

The NPM Feature In This One Has A 2GB Max Size So Monitoring Thousands Of Nodes Will Require Lots Of Shrinking Of The DB It's Great For Small To Medium Business.
Reviewed Version 10.6.0
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The toolset is probably hands down the best Multitask admin tool you can ever have. When you need to deal with DNS, remote support, WOL and network performance monitoring on a small to medium level, this is the tool. Studio Workspace – Great for creating a troubleshooting and temporary monitoring GUI. Cisco Classic Tools: CPU gauge – Simple to use, Love it! Netflow Realtime – Great for tracking top talkers on a switch. Router CPU load – Great for consistent monitoring Subnet Calculator – Is a fantastic and quick tool for super, sub and mini nets! IP Address Manager – is a real life saver we’ve used this tool from day one and use it today to track all of our static IP’s. Bandwidth Gauges – Are so awesome!!! We have two sixty inch monitors in our NOC that are full or Gauge columns monitoring our Port Channels between our core and edge layer switches, our WAN interfaces, client legacy circuits and Bridge-wave link. It’s the first thing we look at when we begin to receive an increase in help desk call volume. Network Monitor – is also a great tool. It lets me know when switches go down, or when someone last made a change. Network Performance Monitor – Was a great tool. I was historically tracking all interfaced in our network. The two disadvantages was the horrible 2GB database max and the tediously annoying drill down feature which took forever to review the historical activity. For a small to medium business with little to no budget for Report Abuse
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