MPA Tools vs. SaltStack Comparison


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Perform seamless faults and alerts management with real-time notifications and detailed logs for quick issue detection and resolution. Achieve network automation, with workflows enabling automated diagnostics and troubleshooting actions. Advanced network visualization-including business views, topology maps, heat maps, and customizable dashboards give admins an at-a-glance view of network status. 250+ pre-built reports covering metrics like device performance, network usage, uptime, facilitate capacity planning and improved decision-making. 1,577 Ratings Visit Website NinjaOne NinjaOne automates the hardest parts of IT, delivering visibility, security, and control over all endpoints for more than 20,000 customers. The NinjaOne automated endpoint management platform is proven to increase productivity, reduce security risk, and lower costs for IT teams and managed service providers. The company seamlessly integrates with a wide range of IT and security technologies. NinjaOne is obsessed with customer success and provides free and unlimited onboarding, training, and support. 3,935 Ratings Visit Website AdRem NetCrunch NetCrunch is a powerful, scalable, all-in-one network monitoring system built for modern IT environments. It supports agentless monitoring of thousands of devices, covering SNMP, servers, virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V), cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), traffic flows (NetFlow, sFlow), logs, and custom data via REST or scripts. With 670+ monitoring packs and dynamic views, it automates discovery, configuration, alerting, and automates self-healing actions for efficient remote remediation in response to alerts. Its node-based licensing eliminates sensor sprawl and complexity, providing a clear, cost-effective path to scale. Real-time dashboards, policy-driven setup, advanced alert tuning and 40+ alert actions including remote script execution, service restart, process kill or device reboot-make NetCrunch ideal for organizations replacing legacy tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or WhatsUp Gold. Fast to deploy and future-proof. Can be installed on prem, self hosted in the cloud, or mixed. 148 Ratings Visit Website Auvik Auvik's cloud-based network monitroing and management software gives you instant insight into the networks you manage, and automates complex and time-consuming network tasks. You get complete network visibility and control. Real-time network mapping & inventory means you'll always know exactly whats where, even as your users move. Automated config backup & restore on network devices means you'll mitigate network risk with no manual effort. And deep network traffic insights is a game changer. 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With actionable insights, you can now visualize and understand any element in your IT ecosystem and make the correct business decisions every time! 24 Ratings Visit Website ManageEngine Endpoint Central ManageEngine Endpoint Central is built to secure the digital workplace while also giving IT teams complete control over their enterprise endpoints. It delivers a security-first approach by combining advanced endpoint protection with comprehensive management, allowing IT teams to manage the entire endpoint lifecycle, all from a single console. With automated patching across Windows, Mac, Linux and 1,000+ third-party applications, it ensures vulnerabilities are mitigated before attackers can exploit them. Its next-gen antivirus (NGAV) feature, powered by AI-driven behavioural detection, provides 24/7 protection against ransomware, malware, and zero-day threats. Endpoint Central further strengthens enterprise defenses with a broad set of security capabilities, including vulnerability assessment and mitigation, peripheral device control, data loss prevention, application control, endpoint privilege management, encryption with FileVault and BitLocker, and browser security. 2,458 Ratings Visit Website PathSolutions TotalView PathSolutions TotalView network monitoring and troubleshooting software bridges the gap between NETWORK MONITORING and TROUBLESHOOTING RESOLUTION telling you WHEN, WHERE and WHY network errors occur. PathSolutions TotalView continuously monitors and tracks the performance of every device and every link in your entire network, going deeper than other solutions by collecting error counters, performance data, configuration information and connectedness. A built-in heuristics engine analyzes all of this information to produce plain-English answers to problems. This means that complex problems can be solved by junior level engineers leaving the senior level engineers to work on more strategic level projects. The core product includes everything needed to run a perfectly healthy network: Configuration management, server monitoring, cloud service monitoring, IPAM, NetFlow, path mapping, and diagramming. Get Total Network Visibility on your network and solve more problems faster. 43 Ratings Visit Website
About MPA Tools offers a comprehensive and unified solution for device management across multiple platforms, giving IT professionals a single, powerful interface to manage their entire endpoint landscape. Whether your organization relies on traditional Active Directory, modern Entra ID, Configuration Manager (MECM), or Microsoft Intune, MPA Tools seamlessly integrates with all of them—eliminating the complexity of juggling multiple consoles or inconsistent management workflows. Designed for environments where devices are scattered across hybrid or cloud-first infrastructures, MPA Tools brings everything together into one streamlined experience. Administrators gain the ability to deploy software, manage configurations, perform maintenance tasks, and troubleshoot issues in real time, all without switching tools or losing visibility. The platform delivers deep insights, advanced remote management capabilities, and intuitive controls, allowing IT teams to work faster, reduce downtime, and imp	About SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience System Administrators, SysAdmins, IT Pros, IT Professionals, Help Desk, Desk Side, Server Administrators, Windows Admins, SCCM Administrators, Intune Administrators, SCOM Administrators	Audience ITOps, DevOps, NetOps, and SecOps
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Pricing $500 Free Version Free Trial	Pricing No information available. Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 4.0 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 4.5 / 5 features 5.0 / 5 design 4.5 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person	Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information Veles Software Ltd Founded: 2008 Canada www.velessoftware.com/mpa-tools/	Company Information SaltStack Founded: 2012 Utah, United States saltproject.io
Alternatives SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor SolarWinds	Alternatives Ansible Red Hat
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Atera	CFEngine
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Categories Data Center Management Enterprise Architecture IT Management IT Service Network Monitoring Patch Management	Categories Build Automation Cloud Infrastructure Automation Cloud Security Compliance Configuration Management Container Orchestration Cybersecurity Data Center Management DevOps HIPAA Compliance IT Management IT Security Network Automation Network Security Patch Management PCI Compliance Server Management Software Configuration Management (SCM) Vulnerability Scanners
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Integrations Chocolatey Dash Device42 GitHub HostAccess Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft System Center NetWatch.ai OverOps Parallels Device Management Pliant Qualys WAS Rackspace OpenStack ServiceNow Snow Commander Swimlane Tenable One VMware vSphere Show More Integrations View All 3 Integrations	Integrations Chocolatey Dash Device42 GitHub HostAccess Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft System Center NetWatch.ai OverOps Parallels Device Management Pliant Qualys WAS Rackspace OpenStack ServiceNow Snow Commander Swimlane Tenable One VMware vSphere Show More Integrations View All 27 Integrations
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