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Thanks, totally valid feedback. Any specific products you'd recommend adding? Or just more advanced filtering?

Two tools I think are great that a lot of people don't know about are PDQ Deploy/Inventory for software deployment too big to do manually but too small to justify buying SCCM, and PRTG is a pretty robust modern network monitoring system.

But yeah, mostly filtering.

I’ve been in the industry for over thirty years, and I’ve never heard of these tools.

I’m not saying that they’re not great at what they do for their segment, but I do think they’re more specialized.

As I said, a lot of people don't know about them. ;) PDQ Deploy is a remarkably affordable software deployment tool, they charge by the admin using it, not by the PCs covered by it, and the yearly cost gets them automatically building for you... most of the deployment packages for common Windows software IT environments deploy. I've never used PDQ Inventory, but it ties in pretty closely with Deploy if you use it as your auditing and asset management tool.

PRTG is in the vein of Nagios and WhatsUpGold, but far more delightful to use.

I wouldn't call either specialized, except perhaps in terms of organization size. If you're in Fortune 500s, probably not going to end up with these tools.

Ahh, right. Enterprisey Windows stuff. The stuff that I have spent my entire career avoiding at all possible costs.

Yeah, you definitely have different answers for these spaces than I do.

For my deployments, it’s either Chef or any of various tools on AWS.

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