SolarWinds Patch Manager

It helps me see what updates need to be installed and which have failed.

Works well but has issues with 3rd party updates.

What do you like best? Patch manager was great when pushing out Microsoft updates and the other approved vendor updates supported by Solar Winds. This was very useful when keeping within compliance and made patching easy by creating deployment groups. By creating different deployment groups, we were able to update our systems within a timely fashion and without overloading our network during peak times. What do you dislike? Although most updates were easy to deploy, we had issues ...

Patch Management Made Easy

What do you like best? It shows what patches are missing and if we have already a solutions working in place like WSUS etc, it also shows what patches were missed by them and their unavailability will cause vulnerability. What do you dislike? Nothing to dislike, so far. It has shown many things which i did not imagined. Recommendations to others considering the product: It helps you identify which patches are missing and if you have an existing patching software, it also shows ...

Good Patch Management Solution

What do you like best? Patch Manager is great if you use Solarwinds N-Central or RMM. It has very thorough integration with both products. What do you dislike? Patch Manager reporting is not very user friendly, and does not offer a ton of customization. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are using Patch Manager to keep client devices up-to-date with the latest patches, utilizing auto-approvals to quickly push through the most ...

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 ...

Solarwinds patch management

What do you like best? I love the ability to choose specifically what updates are installed on the servers and workstations I managed. I am responsible for over 2000 nodes, and Solarwinds patch manager makes patch management a breeze. What do you dislike? I am not find of the amount of time it takes to retrieve patch install status of machines. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I have brought over 2000 unique nodes into full ...

Effective patch manager

What do you like best? This product integrates well with Microsoft products, which we use org wide, and other SolarWinds tools (we use remote desktop and manager functionality for our IT team). It also conveniently sends emails and updates on the status of all machines that our agency uses, which is around 200 computers/devices that are difficult to track otherwise. What do you dislike? It can sometimes be slow and slow other device functionality when doing agency wide scans. ...

Good product with competitive characteristics

What do you like best? This program seems very authentic to me since it contains alerts and notifications that allow me to be attentive to any circumstance. In addition to having very good customizable reports, which makes it much more interesting when creating them. The problems of network are easy to identify, allowing me to save time in investigating the causes of some problems. What do you dislike? The cost is a problem for small businesses or individuals, no doubt those, who are ...

The ultimate monitoring tool

What do you like best? The way we can monitor each and everything in this tool What do you dislike? It takes alot of time to load certain thing like processes window What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? For those node down, I try to troubleshoot the error and solve them

Is good

What do you like best? It's good. It helps me manage patches!!! What do you dislike? Nothing. When my patches need to be managed it does that. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? I need patches. Solarwinds helps me patch.