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PathSolutions TotalView

Score7.3 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

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What is PathSolutions TotalView?

PathSolution’s TotalView is a network performance monitoring tool. PathSolutions emphasizes the platform’s issue diagnostics and recommended remediation assistance as a key differentiator.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features PathSolutions TotalView has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Baseline threshold calculation

    Calculation of baseline thresholds so to establish warning thresholds

    Category average: 8.4

  • Automated network device discovery

    Automated network device discovery allows all devices in the environment to be found and tracked

    Category average: 8.7

  • Packet capture analysis

    Interception of data packets provides performance-related information such as network and application response times, and traffic type analysis

    Category average: 7.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Alerts

    Alerts warning of critical infrastructure component failure can be sent via email or SMS or other channel

    Category average: 8.7

  • Hardware health monitoring

    Ability to monitor key hardware metrics including temperature, fan speed, and power supply

    Category average: 9.2

  • Customizable reports

    Ability to schedule, generate, and deliver custom performance and availability reports

    Category average: 7.9

Reviews

What users are saying about PathSolutions TotalView.
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TotalView - An Amazing Diagnostic Tool

Zachary Davis
Network Engineer in Information Technology at Monadnock Community Hospital (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • In-depth device interface performance
  • Daily Utilization with a historical view
  • Call Assessment and VoIP phone monitoring

Cons

  • I currently do not have any cons with the software - PathSolutions support is phenomenal.

Return on Investment

  • TotalView has been greatly beneficial and allows for a quick view of impacted devices within my infrastructure
  • Bandwidth monitoring and historical tab has been great for correlating past slowness events

Other Software Used

SolarWinds IP Address Manager, Palo Alto Networks URL Filtering PAN-DB, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Cisco Nexus, Aruba Networks Wireless LAN (WLAN), Cisco Routers

All your network are belong to us

Bryan MularcikView profile
Senior Voice and Collaboration Administrator in Information Technology at WesBanco (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Probably the best value I have ever seen in a network monitoring product.
  • Phenomenal customer service and support.
  • Features galore!

Cons

  • If you have some complexities in your network addressing, the network diagram tool will lay everything out automatically, but it will be confusing to look at. There is a way to edit the diagram so it looks more intuitive, but it may require some time to edit everything the right way.
  • TotalView will count virtual interfaces such as voice dial-peers and service modules as "ports," which counts against your license count. However, there is a way to edit each device to remove these "false positives" so it doesn't suck up licenses, but it can take some time to clean those up.

Return on Investment

  • Faster turnaround on network troubleshooting frees up Administrator time for other efforts.
  • Significant cost saving is going to allow us to free us some budget, especially after replacing other tools.

Alternatives Considered

SolarWinds IP Address Manager, SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer, WhatsUp Gold, ManageEngine OpManager and Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution

Great network focused tools for semi-automated network troubleshooting

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • The setup is fast and easy - 500 devices in 20 minutes.
  • The ability to go back a day or a week in time allows us to more easily troubleshoot the "what happened at 3 a.m. yesterday" question.
  • It gives us easily accessible stats for checks and balances like device types, counts, models, serial number etc.

Cons

  • Customization can be difficult to achieve - although well documented and support is willing to help.
  • Some configuration steps are cumbersome but strides have been made to fix that in recent years.
  • Automation and discovery of devices aren't the easiest to do, it is one of the short comings. While it is achievable it's not as up front as other tools

Return on Investment

  • There is certainly an increased saving of time when dealing with issues - troubleshooting time is at least 75% less for basic issues.

Alternatives Considered

NetBrain, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor and PRTG Network Monitor

Other Software Used

PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark

Easy to use. Easy to implement. Support is phenomenal

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Simple, intuitive interface.
  • Support Team is great.
  • New features being added all the time.

Cons

  • I don't have any complaints or suggestions right now.

Return on Investment

  • Wuite possibly the best spent money i have recommended in my 20+ year IT career.