SolarWinds Patch Manager

Can be sluggish at times, but works better than mostr

What do you like best? Easy to use application and I've yet to have any major issues with it. Patching is easy to manage and tends to work without problems. What do you dislike? Error logging isn't great, so it's hard to tell why something fails when it does. This doesn't usually come up, but it does some times. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? This is a solution we use for all of our clients to manage workstation and server ...

Good product part of the RMM

What do you like best? Makes it easy to approve, decline or hide updates for an individual device or multiple device. More straight-forward than other patch management solutions and doesn't require a lot knowledge to implement or deploy. What do you dislike? The patch scans some times fail for various reason and you have to manually re-run them. There are times when you need to reinstall the agent to fix this issue. But lately the product has improved and this failures are less often. ...

Quick tool for software vulnerabilities

What do you like best? Compliance reports, Easy integration with SCCM,Patch status visual board, Test packages which is prebuilt What do you dislike? There is nothing that i dislike in this product What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have used this as a part of DevOps automation for building a software product. The automation helps to save lot of time to do manual patch management

Easy to navigate and implement

What do you like best? User friendly interface that allows teams to monitor their work and clean up the implementation What do you dislike? Slow to load and constantly down for maintenance What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Migrating networks and monitor mission critical patches on network

Excellent

What do you like best? Works well to monitor the devices and integrates well with service now. What do you dislike? Ease of accessibility to import data on a excel file What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Integration with service now is a challenge , support is limited

Very easy

What do you like best? The software is easy to use and integrated with my RMM tools. Very easy to understand and navigate. Information is very clear and precise. Gives standardized information I can easily relay further along the chain of command. Color coding allows the status to be viewed at a glance. What do you dislike? Login and loading can be a little slow at times. With it integrated with my RMM, it may take a little time to navigate to as the different window panes have to ...

Easy solution included in Solar Winds RMM / MSP package.

What do you like best? Complete control of windows patching from a centralized dashboard. What do you dislike? Many times, there are service failures on workstations that prevent the whole patch system to work. Recommendations to others considering the product: Awesome for desktops but expensive for servers What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Keeping desktop computers that may not get IT people on them all the time up to date ...

PM must better than SCCM

What do you like best? PM is much easier to use and implement. It's a front end for WSUS and does not replace WSUS. What do you dislike? There is a bit of a learning curve. But pretty much the same as SCCM. Recommendations to others considering the product: Easy to deplay third-party patches. Much easier than SCCM. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Pushing out patches for common patches. Very easy to set up polices and rules.

Makes patch management a breeze.

What do you like best? It is an easy to use single online platform to manage multiple devices across a number of operating systems. What do you dislike? To be honest I haven't had any issues using Solarwinds patch management. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We recently had a number of issues with laptops crashing due an out of date driver which was resolved by forcing the update to silent install through patch management. ...

SolarWinds Patch Manager best software we used for patching

What do you like best? Its an Automated patching of Microsoft servers, workstations, and 3rd-party applications. What do you dislike? As of now we havent faced any issues with the software What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? In the past we would patch manually at each workstation during routine time but with patch manager its easy for us.