
Do More Than You Ever Thought Possible
With N-central, your business is boundless. Available as an on-premises or hosted solution, SolarWinds® N-central® helps you:
- Onboard, configure, or patch hundreds of devices with powerful automation tools
- Protect your customers with advanced security solutions
- Resolve issues faster with information at your fingertips and robust remote support
- Improve customer uptime with proactive alerts and self-healing capabilities
- Monitor and manage Windows, Mac, Linux, virtual machines, and network devices
- Organize your services and customers in a single interface
- Customize scripts to meet specific customer or device-type needs
- Improve technician efficiency, customer retention, and service margins
Key Features
Endpoint Detection & Response
Leverage integrated endpoint protection to prevent, detect, and respond to ever-changing threats and recover quickly when ransomware or other exploits strike—all without leaving SolarWinds® N-central®.
This includes
- Automated rollback
- Rapid agent deployment
- Policy-driven automation
- Near real-time file analysis
- Signatureless approach
- Behavioral artificial intelligence engines
- Forensic analysis
- Protection even when endpoints are offline
- Autonomous responses to threats
Network Topology Mapping
Automatically discover your entire network and create comprehensive, detailed network topology maps that allow you to quickly and easily know your network.
This includes
- Easy-to-understand visual representation of your network and its interconnectivity
- Auto-detect any changes to the network
- Automatically map your network for clear visibility
- Save time when troubleshooting issues with the network
Remote Monitoring
Remotely monitor desktops, laptops, servers, and mobile devices across operating systems and platforms.
This includes
- Alerts and performance checks
- Security monitoring
- Windows, Mac, and Linux compatibility
- Network performance monitoring
- Mobile device monitoring
- Virtual machine monitoring
- Granular roles and permissions
- Automation and bulk actions
Patch Manager
Keep Software Up to Date Across Multiple Client Sites.
This Includes
- Automated rollout
- Detailed manual rollout
- Optimized for resource usage
- Scheduling
- No server required
- Maximize Efficiency
- System patches
- Patch on or off-site
- Reporting
Automation Manager
Get More Done with Automation without Learning a New Scripting Language.
This Includes
- Helps efficiency
- Self-healing
- Detailed reporting
- Automated onboarding
- Drag and drop
- Prewritten policies
- Integration with other scripting languages
- Complete control
Backup Manager
Help Protect Your Users’ Data with Sophisticated Backup and Rapid Disaster Recovery.
This Includes
- Cloud and on-premises backup
- Back up a number of devices at almost any level
- Fast backup and recovery
- Bare metal recovery
- Virtual machine support
- Ultra-secure with private keys
- Secure data centers
- Data archiving
Security Manager
Protect Your Users with Top-tier Security Features That Are Easy to Deploy and Manage.
This Includes
- Signature, Rule, and behavioral-based scans
- Proactive notifications
- Firewall
- Web content filtering
- Reporting via Report Manager
- Profiles and application control
- Auto deployment
- Competitive uninstall
- Disk Encryption Manager available as an add-on
Report Manager
Clearly Demonstrate Your Value to Clients with Detailed, Custom Reports.
This Includes
- Multiple report formats – default and custom
- Executive summary
- Network assessment
- Security overview
- Patch reports
- Device and capacity management
- Help desk reports
Remote Access
Perform maintenance and fix issues without leaving your desk.
This includes
- Provide faster support with lower costs
- Reporting
- Anytime access
- Contact lists
- File system
- System configuration
- Performance issue maintenance
- Service management
Mobile Manager
Manage and Improve Security for Smartphones and Tablets Without Breaking a Sweat.
This Includes
- Quick onboarding
- Device profiles
- Manual onboarding
- Device locator
- Application control
- Remote device wipe or feature disablement
- System management
Mobile App
Provide Outstanding IT Management from Anywhere.
This Includes
- Identify problem servers and workstations
- Perform tasks such as running scripts and automation policies
- Review alerts and manage your devices on the go
- Run remote control sessions using MSP Connect right from your iOS or Android device
NetPath
Understand your network's performance and infrastructure past your firewall, from source to destination and everything in between.
This includes
- 24/7 Monitoring and History
- Performance and QoS Monitoring
- Network Visibility
- Node/Hop Information
Comprehensive Device Management
Microsoft and SolarWinds MSP have collaborated to provide MSPs a unified view of client devices in one place.
This includes
- Detect devices monitored by Intune
- Standardize alerts and policies
- Consolidate reporting
- Switch between N-central and Microsoft Intune consoles
- Universally configure backup and security policies
Ways N-central Can Help Your Business

Automation can help you easily handle diverse, complex environments while saving hundreds of tech hours. N-central’s automation manager goes beyond simple automation, allowing you to set up complex, sophisticated tasks using a drag-and-drop editor—no need to write code. Whether you want to standardize your onboarding process for new clients, simplify patching, or streamline the ticketing and billing process, N-central lets you customize your experience for maximum efficiency.
Your clients depend on you to keep them safe, and one breach could spell the end for them or you. So fortify your security profile with N-central’s built-in web protection and antivirus, powered by Bitdefender. Add SolarWinds Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to offer new security services to boost proactive detection and response at the endpoint level. SolarWinds EDR even allows you to automatically roll back endpoints to a known safe state without you having to intervene.


A good RMM augments your workflows, instead of forcing you to rethink how you work every day. N-central uses flexible rules and custom field options to trigger precise actions from alerts in one machine or thousands. For example, you could set up a custom field to mark an important device (“CEO’s laptop”), then set a rule to automatically send tickets directly to you. Fully integrated with popular PSAs, including the AutoTask, ConnectWise, and SolarWinds MSP Manager PSAs, N-central also has open APIs, so you can use the tools that make sense for you.
SolarWinds N-central gives you the tools you need to help continually take on bigger and more lucrative IT contracts. N-central’s infrastructure and software is built to help you handle massive networks with minimal hassle and maximum protection. With profiles, rules, and filters, you can preconfigure or update devices in bulk across customer sites. On top of that, our support for all types of devices—endpoints, servers, smartphones, tablets, virtual machines, printers, and IoT devices—makes N-central an ideal solution for managing complex environments.

Not sure if N-central is the right remote monitoring and management solution for you?
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