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N-able N-central pros and cons

Vendor: N-able
4.3 out of 5
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Pros & Cons summary

N-able N-central offers robust features such as remote connectivity, asset tracking, a reporting suite, patch management, and integration options, with a commitment to enhancements and easy scalability. Although reliable, it requires improvements in remote access, integration, custom monitoring, and mobile management for Android. Ensuring a smooth client migration, it faces occasional stability issues while transitioning from SNMP to Redfish. N-central remains a comprehensive tool for IT management.

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PROS

N-able N-central offers robust remote connectivity, reporting suite, and patch management capabilities.
N-central includes powerful asset tracking and smooth, secure remote access capabilities.
Integration with ticketing systems and tools like CrowdStrike and N-able EDR enhances network monitoring and security.
Automation features in N-central help schedule tasks, respond to triggers, and automate problem resolution.
N-able N-central provides a unified view for insights on patching, assets, devices, and active issues.

CONS

N-able N-central's remote access is lacking, with technicians resorting to other tools like TeamViewer.
Integration with other applications could be improved.
The support is inconsistent, with direct support being good but ongoing help desk support needing improvement.
There is limited mobile device management support, especially for Android devices, impacting client deals.
Stability issues with N-able N-central are encountered occasionally.
 

N-able N-central Pros review quotes

Rodrigo Daphanis - PeerSpot reviewer
Rodrigo Daphanis
Owner at FK+ Tecnologia
May 9, 2022
The most valuable feature of N-able N-central is the many options it has.
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Brian Hershey - PeerSpot reviewer
Brian Hershey
Platform Manager at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees
Dec 5, 2022
I like the remote connectivity, reporting suite, and patch management module.
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reviewer1484211 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1484211
Senior Security at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Feb 28, 2023
It's a very robust product. They're continuing to invest and put new enhancements into the product. They're very open about what their roadmap is, which is very good for us because then as a business, we can plan.
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Dimitri V G - PeerSpot reviewer
Dimitri V G
Team Manager Fiber & Backhaul Solutions Center & South at Telenet BVBA
Aug 9, 2023
The support is at a good level. So normally, we can always get to a solution when we are stuck with some monitoring problems that we encounter.
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Gideon Gideon
Senior Network Engineer at Netcotech
Oct 13, 2023
The solution's service is good.
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Yazan Albaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Yazan Albaw
Customer Success Director at We Cybers
Sep 4, 2024
N-able N-central has numerous good features. The asset tracking capability is powerful, allowing you to track hardware and software on devices connected to your network. The remote control is smooth, securely enabling remote access to servers and routers. It can be integrated with ticketing systems and other tools like CrowdStrike and N-able EDR for comprehensive network monitoring and security. The automation feature is handy, allowing you to schedule tasks, respond to system triggers, and automate problem resolution, such as handling disk space issues automatically.
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Jallad Ahmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Jallad Ahmad
Senior Manager, Cloud at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 20, 2024
The most valuable features of N-central are its ease of deployment and ease of use.
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reviewer2647377 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2647377
Senior System Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Feb 13, 2025
N-able N-central is an easy tool to implement with customers.
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Dimitri V G - PeerSpot reviewer
Dimitri V G
Team Manager Fiber & Backhaul Solutions Center & South at Telenet BVBA
Jun 26, 2025
The most helpful features of N-able N-central include providing a single pane of glass for many insights in an environment regarding their patching, their assets, their devices in general, and the active issues that they show.
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Nyiko Malapane
Senior Operations Specialist at Tagit cc
Aug 19, 2025
The transition to N-able N-central was very smooth; we were confident that our migration would not affect any operations, and it was easy to migrate our clients into the new solutions.
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N-able N-central Cons review quotes

Rodrigo Daphanis - PeerSpot reviewer
Rodrigo Daphanis
Owner at FK+ Tecnologia
May 9, 2022
N-able N-central could improve the remote access, my technicians have complained about it. They have used other free tools instead to compensate, such as TeamViewer. Additionally, when using remote access on the web, it is lacking reports.
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Brian Hershey - PeerSpot reviewer
Brian Hershey
Platform Manager at a outsourcing company with 11-50 employees
Dec 5, 2022
The integration with other applications could be better.
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reviewer1484211 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer1484211
Senior Security at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Feb 28, 2023
The support from our direct team is very good, but the support from their day-to-day ongoing help desk isn't that good. They have still got some work to do on that, but they have been focusing on that a lot over the last number of years. So, it has gotten a lot better than it was.
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Dimitri V G - PeerSpot reviewer
Dimitri V G
Team Manager Fiber & Backhaul Solutions Center & South at Telenet BVBA
Aug 9, 2023
There is room for improvement in the development of custom monitoring services.
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Gideon Gideon
Senior Network Engineer at Netcotech
Oct 13, 2023
The solution's overall integration should be improved.
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Yazan Albaw - PeerSpot reviewer
Yazan Albaw
Customer Success Director at We Cybers
Sep 4, 2024
N-central has limited mobile device management (MDM) support, specifically for Android devices. This limitation affected a deal with a client who had numerous Android devices to manage. It would be beneficial if N-central could expand its MDM support to include Android devices.
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Jallad Ahmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Jallad Ahmad
Senior Manager, Cloud at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 20, 2024
Involving AI in the platform could improve it further.
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reviewer2647377 - PeerSpot reviewer
reviewer2647377
Senior System Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Feb 13, 2025
The industry has moved towards Redfish for out-of-band and in-band monitoring, yet N-able N-central still relies on older protocols like SNMP.
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Dimitri V G - PeerSpot reviewer
Dimitri V G
Team Manager Fiber & Backhaul Solutions Center & South at Telenet BVBA
Jun 26, 2025
We have to do the effort ourselves because Enable is not really strategically going there because I assume there's not much money to make to improve that or to convince customers to start with their product.
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Nyiko Malapane
Senior Operations Specialist at Tagit cc
Aug 19, 2025
It was previously expensive and tedious to manage different licenses.
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