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About Join the thousands of MSPs and IT professionals who use N-able™ N-central® to remotely monitor and manage devices and complex networks. 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	About RustDesk is a full-featured open source remote control alternative for self-hosting and security with minimal configuration. Works on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and web. Supports VP8/VP9/AV1 software codecs, and H264/H265 hardware codecs. Own your data, and easily set up a self-hosting solution on your infrastructure. P2P connection with end-to-end encryption based on NaCl. No administrative privileges or installation needed for Windows, elevate privilege locally or from remote on demand. We like to keep things simple and will strive to make them simpler where possible. Supported by a network of early advocates, contributors, and champions. If you are using RustDesk you should have your own RustDesk server. The ports required for RustDesk server self-hosting depend largely on your environment and what you want to do with RustDesk.
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 IT service providers and managed service providers (MSPs)	Audience Teams in need of a solution to manage and secure their remote desktop access operations
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
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Pricing No information available. Free Version Free Trial	Pricing $9.90 per month Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 3.6 / 5 ease 4.1 / 5 features 4.0 / 5 design 4.1 / 5 support 3.7 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 2.3 / 5 ease 3.0 / 5 features 3.0 / 5 design 3.3 / 5 support 2.0 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros There are no pros to this company at all. The only pro was that when all the negatives happened, I found a better RMM solution. Ninja is cheaper and a better solution. Everyone you speak to is very curious. They say all the right thing and agree with your assessments of there product. Platform is easy to work with. Solarwinds N central is an ideal tool for remote security and network monitoring. Its control and ease of monitoring make you feel you are monitoring at the office. On a broader scale, it helps you in security, backup, performance tracking and helpdesk monitoring. I like how its UX is designed. This tool is versatile as well as powerful to make remote security monitoring responsive and functional. The installation process was fun for me. It gives every bit of data to monitor. It's a very easy and effective app. App is available on multiplatform gives ease to access. It gives you remote control features to manages issues from anywhere. Current system scripts that can also be edited remotely. Cons Everything. Support is diabolical. The account not activated on time. Bills are always wrong. Features that used to be standard are now microtransactions. There are 2 issue I have been complaining about since I onboarded with Solarwinds back in 2019. Neither has been resolved! Now I am have another issue with AV and the most frustrating thing is a case was created and I cannot reply to it or see it in my cases. I have spoke to 4 different techs and asked them to put it in my queue, yet it has not been done resolved. One is AV detecting Webroot which has been uninstalled in over 50 computers. Each time they roll out an upgrade of Bitdefender I have to uninstall reinstall it. I have ask too many times where is it looking for Webroot so I can correct the problem. The other is getting error messages from Patching. Patches that are declined randomly come up as failed to install making my job harder having to dive in to see what the error is. Issue comes and goes. In my limited function usage, I got a positive response. No cons experienced. Reporting should have more information to study. SolarWinds N-central is a remote automation tool to manage issues. No cons.	Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Even though it's fast when it does work, since it's self hosted and runs through your own relay server. - Self Hosting - Speed - Security - This means nothing, but the form told me I needed at least 100 characters in the text box. Lorem ipsum quick red fox yadda yadda yadda. Unattended Mode plus the OTP Mode, faster connection and better display and resolution handling on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Cons Their support staff are not helpful, blunt, not trained at all to work with the public and quite rude. The system is full of bugs which are not being addressed, even though the internet is full of the discussions of these. - Additional charge PER endpoint - regardless if you need unattended access or not - Support is terrible/non existent. - Server installation was a pain. Remote Connection have no 'on-premises' options just like AnyDesk.
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Company Information N-able Founded: 2014 United States www.n-able.com/products/n-central-rmm	Company Information RustDesk United States rustdesk.com
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Categories Antivirus Endpoint Management Help Desk IT Asset Management IT Infrastructure Monitoring IT Management IT Service ITSM Mobile Device Management (MDM) MSP Network Management Network Mapping Network Monitoring Network Security Network Troubleshooting Patch Management Remote Desktop Remote Support RMM Server Management Server Monitoring	Categories Remote Desktop Remote Support
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