Intermapper vs. SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds ipMonitor

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Intermapper	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Intermapper is a network monitoring and mapping software for hybrid environments. Intermapper provides real-time performance alerts and bandwidth monitoring with cross-platform functionality.	N/A
SolarWinds ipMonitor	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds ipMonitor is a lightweight performance monitoring tool. It enables monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available.	$1,570 installation

Pricing

Intermapper

SolarWinds ipMonitor

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

ipMonitor - 500 Monitors: $1570
installation
ipMonitor - 1000 Monitors: $2620
installation
ipMonitor -2500 Monitors: $5770
installation

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Intermapper	SolarWinds ipMonitor
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

Intermapper pricing is based on number of devices monitored. Intermapper is free for 5 devices or less. Subscription pricing starts at $303 for 25 devices. Device-based pricing starts at $765 for 25 devices.

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Community Pulse
	Intermapper	SolarWinds ipMonitor
Considered Both Products	Intermapper Verified User Anonymous Chose Intermapper We have been using Intermapper for years and have been satisfied with it to the point that we haven't looked at competitors. The maintenance cost is very low and the product does exactly what we expect and need it to do. The product has gone through a couple owner transitions … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Intermapper Intermapper is a cross between WhatsUp Gold and Nagios. Whatsup gold being for a less technical end-user and Nagios doing more than just SNMP scans and up down monitoring. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Intermapper We felt, with both pricing and level of complexity, that Intermapper was the right solution. We looked at WhatsUpGold, but the price was too high for us at the time. We looked at Nagios, which is free, but we didn't find it intuitive. Incentivized Helpful? Dan Pelton Network Engineer Chose Intermapper I selected Intermapper because it was so easy to customize the display to exactly what we wanted. I wanted something that changed colors based on availability and something that we could display on TV's for our NOC. This fit all the criteria perfectly. Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Stasel IT Operations Manager Chose Intermapper I have 15 years invested in Intermapper, so my inertia to keep from changing is relatively high, and the cost to do so would be higher than just renewing the license each year. Traditionally though, Intermapper requires less work to get going, and less work to implement a given … Incentivized Helpful? Jim Cobb Director of IT Chose Intermapper Some of these other packages have some very sophisticated capabilities that Intermapper lacks. The problem is, not too many IT departments have the bandwidth to set them up properly and us the sophisticated features and maintain them. So why not get something that does what you … Incentivized Helpful? Geoff Benedetti Network Analyst Chose Intermapper We used to use What's up Gold for our network monitoring but Intermapper seems to have better mapping capabilities. We used to use Ciscoworks for monitoring our routers and switches but it was limited to just those network devices and was a pain to set up and manage. We … Incentivized Helpful? Nick Erwin Network Administrator Chose Intermapper InterMapper offers a cheaper and easier network map over SolarWinds Orion Network Atlas. It lacks SolarWinds graphs, reports and statistics. For monitoring, alerting and at a glance information, InterMapper is hard to beat for the price. Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds ipMonitor Anil Pratap Singh Director Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor Datadog, Dynatrace and Microsoft System Center Incentivized Helpful? Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor We were trying to evaluate different providers and ipMonitor suited us because we had on-prem and cloud instances and management decided to check the paid tool. The ipMonitor is a very responsive tool and it served the purpose well but as IT is evolving and needs are changing, … Incentivized Helpful? Emma Jones Smith Senior Software Engineering Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor LogicMonitor is software with a fast-loading interface, with integrated alerts, so establishing them is simple due to its pre-configurations. However, SolarWinds ipMonitor [has] more complete characteristics because its interface is modern and easy to use. It offers fast and … Incentivized Helpful? Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor The way SolarWinds has clubbed the features and capabilities in SolarWinds ipMonitor is not available in other 3rd party or native tools. Even if they are available then they are very costly. I think SolarWinds is positioning ipMonitor so as to test their footprint on SaaS … Incentivized Helpful? Dylan Eikelenboom Security Officer Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor Both alternatives were great offerings, but were too extensive for our business needs. We needed something that had very low set-up costs, was easily usable, and did all the basics we need; performance metrics analysis, rogue IP detection, network mapping. In the end, along … Incentivized Helpful? Arnab Mukherjee ITSM and Project Management Consultant Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor SolarWinds NPM provides more functionalities than ipMonitor. It is for medium - large enterprise and provides lots of monitoring options. Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor Although there are very less SaaS based tools available in the market, SolarWinds is somewhere in middle as compared to other tools such as LogicMonitor and ScienceLogic. Reason being the timing of the product launch and features enhancement. However current capabilities in … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor We have run Zabbix in the past and while it is a great and very flexible tool (much more than SolarWinds), it is also an Open Source tool that depends heavily on the community. When it comes to more complex environments and global implementations with business critical … Incentivized Helpful? Mike Mozola Senior Systems Engineer Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor I had some limited exposure to Zabbix that was provided by the client for monitoring the existing network. I found it not as informative as I previously experienced using ipMonitor and we were preparing for a network migration. I ended up setting up remote monitoring using … Incentivized Helpful? PC Paul Cheng IT Manager Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor ipMonitor is easier to set up and is straightforward. The other products seem to require getting a bit more into the weeds to get everything to work correctly. It was more work than I was willing to do and opted to just go with an off-the-shelf solution that could get my … Incentivized Helpful? BM Brian Maull Network admin Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor We have been using IPMonitor for over a decade. We have looked at other products in the past, but none of them have provided enough reason to even consider switching. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor These are only a few of what we looked at, and at the end of the day it came down to cost, low footprint, and ease of use. I have suggested SolarWinds to anyone who asks what we use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor I feel that ipMonitor does not provide the granularity or level of configuration we require for our teams. We actually are looking at other means of customizing our monitors using the products listed, which I think will provide my teams with the ability to create better alerts … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor IpMonitor is easy to set up and has a clear and easy reading interface. It's user-friendly for entry-level technicians. The price is good. However, for big enterprises, PRTG Network Monitor might be a better solution. Incentivized Helpful? Rob Bates Public & Private Cloud 4th Line Senior Engineer Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor There are some great free or low-cost tools out there. It all depends on your budget and size. We have used a wide variety of products over the years but we recently switched our entire monitoring backbone to SolarWinds products only. They cover just about everything and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor We have not evaluated other products recently. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor SolarWinds ipMonitor is well thought out and includes many more advanced capabilities. Spiceworks functions in a more basic manner where the tools feel more entry level rather than for professional use. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Martin Managed Services Network Engineer Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor I've used simple scripted monitoring tools before, used IP monitor until we upgraded the enterprise to one scalable tool that can replace and upgrade per SLA SOX compliance standards. I moved to a larger company (much larger) and we don't use SolarWinds here. We use WUG which … Incentivized Helpful? GN Glen Nason Systems Engineer, Windows Server Support Group, Enterprise Technology Services Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor Used ipMonitor for 7 years. Switched recently to Idera because of larger feature set and monitoring capabilities not available on IPmonitor. For tasks that both products can do, I still prefer IPmonitor. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor SolarWinds ipMonitor is an easier solution and allows for a rapid configuration change without all the extra bells and whistles that you can find in SolarWinds Orion. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor We used numerous free solutions that provide minimal and focused response. Solar Winds has a much larger scope in the resolutions it provides to us. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor We have used Pasessler PRTG and ManageEngine OpsManager. Both are good products, but aren't really monitoring products, they are more management products with monitoring built in. The smaller footprint of ipMonitor, as well as the historical data storage options, were a better … Incentivized Helpful? Christian Gaarn System Administrator Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor We are currently switching from IpMonitor to Orion. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Intermapper

SolarWinds ipMonitor

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	Intermapper 7.2 Ratings 13% below category average	SolarWinds ipMonitor 6.7 Ratings 20% below category average
Automated network device discovery	7.00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
Network monitoring	8.00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts	7.00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Network capacity planning	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network mapping	8.00 Ratings	6.60 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable reports	00 Ratings	4.20 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Intermapper	SolarWinds ipMonitor
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Intermapper	SolarWinds ipMonitor
Likelihood to Recommend	If you've never mapped your network out before, download a demo of Intermapper and let it run. Your jaw will drop as your network grows before your eyes. If you have your network already mapped, you still would like InterMapper because it will find stuff you did not even know you have. If I were a network consultant, the first thing I would do when I hit a client's site is to start a scan with Intermapper. You will very quickly learn what the topography is. Incentivized Jim Cobb Director of IT Read full review	SolarWinds ipMonitor is very easy to set-up and use, but can be quite slow to execute. Therefore, I don't think it will work in a medium-to-large organisation. Also, the interface is not suited for 100s of devices. The customisibility could also be better, so enterprises that require strict branding rules need to look elsewhere. Incentivized Dylan Eikelenboom Security Officer Read full review
Pros	Provides SNMP and WMI probe data. Alerts us in advance of issues. Allows us to customize notifications for different groups of individuals in the district. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Both network devices and servers may be easily located on the network. It notifies the user whenever any network device undergoes a change in status. Powerful reporting capabilities that provide vital data about your network's devices (uptime, space, utilization of resources on your devices) Incentivized Anil Singh Director Read full review
Cons	I don't have many complaints with Intermapper. It's a pretty simple tool for what we use it for, and it has worked well for us. Incentivized Dan Pelton Network Engineer Read full review	It is a very complete and versatile software, but its price can be somewhat high for small companies. During the analysis of the collected data the process can be somewhat slow, so it takes more time than expected. Its configuration process can be somewhat complex since it requires several configurations so having prior knowledge is helpful. Incentivized Emma Jones Smith Senior Software Engineering Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	I have very few pieces of software, that are specific to IT and IT services, that just work. Honestly, I don't need the support as it never breaks, but I believe in rewarding vendors that make valuable products Incentivized Mike Maner Network Systems Engineer Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Although SolarWinds ipMonitor is great tool to start the SaaS based monitoring journey with SolarWinds products but it still requires a lot of enhancement and its user base which is primarily using on-premises products of SolarWinds needs to be shifted on SaaS based platform strategically and need to motivate. ipMonitor needs to be interated with infra monitoring products such as On-Premises NAM bundle, SAM, DPA etc Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Read full review
Support Rating	The product works well and is very easy to maintain. As such, we haven't had many occasions to use support. When we have called them they were easy to contact and responsive to our questions. We have had the product for years and it may have been a year or better since the last time we contacted them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Overall experience with SolarWinds support team is good. We never faced any delays or issues with the support team, they are knowledgeable or at least documentation is available to them I guess . Direct phone support is also nice and better than opening a support ticket in the system. Sometimes logs analysis take a lot of time and it seems support team is buying some time to fix the issue or to do more research on the issues but that is fine. Incentivized Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We have been using Intermapper for years and have been satisfied with it to the point that we haven't looked at competitors. The maintenance cost is very low and the product does exactly what we expect and need it to do. The product has gone through a couple owner transitions and still is a effective and when we first procured it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The way SolarWinds has clubbed the features and capabilities in SolarWinds ipMonitor is not available in other 3rd party or native tools. Even if they are available then they are very costly. I think SolarWinds is positioning ipMonitor so as to test their footprint on SaaS world with these small scale monitoring tools such as Loggly, ipmonitor, AppOptics which is a good sign to enter the SaaS based monitoring solution. Incentivized Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead Read full review
Return on Investment	Allowed us to find issues we had no idea were happening with our network hardware in closets. Able to pull network hardware inventory easily. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Cost was much higher than the services ipMonitor was well suited but the costing factor wasn't justified as there are tons of open-source tools available in the market with more functionalities Alerts response was very good and ipMonitor served well with health checks. Incentivized Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Read full review
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