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N-able N-central Overview

What is N-able N-central?

Join the thousands of MSPs and IT professionals who use N-able™ N-central® to remotely monitor and manage devices and complex networks. Built with security in mind, N-central provides the visibility and efficiency you need to monitor more, provide great customer service, and scale your business. Key features include: • Monitor almost any device, including support for Windows, Linux, and macOS • Gain complete insight across your network and cloud services without the need for extra network monitoring software • Create automated patch management policies to ensure devices are up to date • Streamline your workflow with drag-and-drop scripting in automation manager—no need to write a line of code • Provide remote support across devices and platforms with the integrated Take Control feature • Integrate your existing PSA software or use N-able MSP Manager to manage tickets and billing • Manage security with integrated backup, EDR, AV, and disk encryption • Available as an on-premises or hosted cloud solution to fit your business N-central is designed to help you run your managed services business or internal IT department more efficiently, so you can focus on scaling operations.

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Product Description

As networks grow in complexity and scale to thousands or tens of thousands of devices, IT service providers need powerful tools to help them keep up. N-able N-central gives you that power.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

We turn complex into simple! Easily manage hundreds of endpoints and continue adding customers. N-central lets you:

• Auto-discover and onboard thousands of devices in bulk
• Apply default service templates out of the box
• Use hundreds of prebuilt scripts in the powerful automation engine
• Drag and drop objects to customize policies without scripting knowledge

We know how hard our MSP partners work and the challenges they face. It’s why we created N-central in the first place: to make your job easier. To ensure your success, we provide the following (at no charge):

• Technical plans to support your migration and growth target
• 24/7 live support and a designated success representative
• Onboarding and business development assistance
• MSP Institute training on demand, daily live demos, and ask-the-experts sessions


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N-able
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Morrisville, North Carolina
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N-able fuels IT services providers with powerful software solutions to monitor, manage, and secure their customers’ systems, data, and networks. Built on a scalable platform, we offer secure infrastructure and tools to simplify complex ecosystems, as well as resources to navigate evolving IT needs. We help partners excel at every stage of growth, protect their customers, and expand their offerings with an ever-increasing, flexible portfolio of integrations from leading technology providers. n-able.com


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Recent N-able N-central Reviews

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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"indispensable for easy it management"
I love N-able and N-central for their robust remote monitoring, automation capabilities, and intuitive interface that simplifies IT management.
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4.5 out of 5
"N-Central Works."
N-central works really well, it's great at monitoring, good support team, and great at patching
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5.0 out of 5
"Excellent Manage Software"
How centralized everything is. Everything is so easy to find.
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N-able N-central Media

N-able N-central Demo - N-central Dashboard
See all your network devices, mobile devices, and SaaS devices in one centralized platform
N-able N-central Demo - N-central Patch Management Dashboard
Ensure that all of your monitored devices are kept up-to-date from a single dashboard.
N-able N-central Demo - N-central Remote Access
Remotely access and troubleshoot workstation issues with the integrated Take Control client.

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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

It provides an excellent way to manage systems for clients. The ability to execute scripts, perform hardware and software inventory for devices, create filters, and patch systems are just a few of the great features this software provides. Also the added ability to remotely access systems is great too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

Take Control does not have the ability to use a shared toolbox where we can upload apps to use on systems from within the sessions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

System management, patch management, script deployment, and remote access to systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

The amount of features that the solution has, and the versatility of the product platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

The layout, it looks clunky when compared to N-sight. The flow and manner of ease of use of N-sight compared to N-Able makes N-Sight a better usable product especially for a new user, but the amount of features of N-Able is what still draws us to use N-Able over the N-Sight.

The overall flow and UX of the platform makes it slightly harder to use, finding options and items within the platform can be cumbersome especially for new users, this also at times makes it harder to find the needed tool to execute actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping to identify problems on devices before users are aware such as insufficient system resources as well as notifying us about hardware / warranty issues needing addressing. The platform is further benefiting us by providing remote access to devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rene R.
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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

N-central relieves me of many small annoying tasks, so that I can concentrate more on the important things. I can automate repetitive activities very well and recurring errors can also be fixed with an automatic solution. Many users have wondered why there are suddenly fewer problems: N-Central fixes errors before the user notices. The support is really great and incredibly fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

The user interface takes some getting used to at the beginning and the menu navigation is not always logical for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

Everyone knows these little annoying time wasters in the everyday life of an admin. A service has hung up or a device needs a restart. I was able to fix many of these problems automatically with N-central and for the rest, the path has become shorter for me, so it takes less time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lorenzo M.
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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

The cloud hosted version of n-central can be implemented in just a few minutes and thanks to the numerous online courses it is very easy to learn how to use the many features present. It integrates easily with security and management software such as SentinelOne EDR, Microsoft Intune and DNS filter, all additional packages that we have purchased and are very satisfied with. Chat support is almost immediate and always ready to help those in difficulty. It has now become an indispensable daily tool for our team of Administrators and Helpdesk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

Quando si tratta di accedere al supporto per strumenti integrati di terze parti, come SentinelOne, i tempi di risoluzione sono spesso più lunghi, perché N-Able deve agire come intermediario per le richieste, non si può ottenere supporto diretto dal produttore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

Management, update, and monitoring of all our clients and servers of our local and remote offices. In a single console, we can manage all the systems without needing any server infrastructure in charge of us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel H.
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Director of Managed Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

N-central allow us to easily manage multiple customers and all their devices. We are able to pull great reporting to supply to our customers to show our value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

It's not a dislike but more of how to find things or do things being new to this tool. Over time I'm able to see how to do something that I was able to do in other products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping in patch security and providing detailed reports to help customers with audits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

Quality of support.

Ease of use.

Number of features.

Scalability.

Interface.

Easy to implement.

My go-to tool to remotely support customers on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

Missing expansion on Monitoring services client integration (i.e. Redfish).

Lack of adding pre-build Monitoring services.

Focus is drifting more to other services than Monitoring services.

Missing support for Powershell 7 in Automation Manager.

Integration requires some customization on the external tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

Remote Monitoring and management is mostly taken care by N-able N-central.

Patch Management is almost a set and forget experience.

Network Monitoring is limited in N-able N-central compared to other tools but the basic tools we have available do their jobs as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AF
2nd Line Engineer
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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

N-Central is an easy to use platform that is useful for gathering info about individual machines and remotely accessing them, whether it is directly using Take Control or via Remote Command Prompt. The customer support is always accessible for us as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

N-Central's use of filters are very clunky in how they are implemented, and the integrated features such as DNS Filter and Sentinel One can be cumbersome to setup, as they frequently fail to install properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use N-Central for the monitoring and management of all our client workstations and servers. It allows us to keep an eye on the performance and health of the machines and their relevant apps/services. It also allows us to deploy scripts and apps across multiple machines at once. Finally, we use it for remotely accessing servers and workstations, which grants us alot of flexibility in actioning helpdesk tickets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

N-central offers a lot of customisablity to allow you to monitor almost any Windows service or stat you can think of.

The Take Control remote access tool is top-of-the-line, offering quick and easy remote access not only to control the session, but run commands, access the file system and view the registry and other stats. N-central is a daily part of my workflow.

The built-in Automation Manager is a great supplement to powershell.

N-able has extensive documentation on their software, and their support team is quick to respond when you can't find a solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

The UI can be a little confusing, particularly the menus (the "Administration" vs the "Configuration" tabs) and the filters (it's not obvious when you have a filter applied, and filters don't remove themselves like most other programs). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

N-central provides our remote monitoring, patching and remote access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JD
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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

I appreciate the ease of access to all the tools that I need and the ability to offer my customers just the level of service that they need. The integration tools work very well with our ticketing system. It is quick to get ahold of support when you need it, and they are NOT outsourced! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

There are no downsides that I can think of. I am satisfied. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

N-Central has helped me get all of my customers backing up to the cloud, and I can easily verify that their data is secure. I can remotely access any of my customers to support them, and I know they have trustworthy AV/EDR protection under one roof. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about N-able N-central?

I've been relying on N-able's N-central for over 10 years, and it keeps getting better. Improvements are well thought out and useful. They make a real effort to connect with their user community through live training, community forum involvement, and the availability of one on one calls with experts in the various areas of N-central. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about N-able N-central?

Sometimes the only way to do something within N-central is the N-central way to do it. I'm probably spoiled by how much you can customize that sometimes I wish I could customize it even more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is N-able N-central solving and how is that benefiting you?

N-central lets us quickly monitor thousands of endpoints and proactively address issues before they become an issue for our users. N-central's built in monitoring tools are fantastic, but it can also monitor and alert on issues discovered through running custom scripts, SNMP traps, log events, or just about anything else you can think of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.