Intermapper vs. OpenNMS Meridian

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

Large network environments with few types of devices. The system is great but getting all of the MIBs loaded and to try and create unique rules /alarm type. Alarm correlation is doable but it takes too much manual work and XML configuration. I do enjoy the dashboard and surveillance categories.

Incentivized

• 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

• When we used OpenNMS you could download the base package for free and configure it fairly easily for your own environment. You can't beat that kind of price break.
• OpenNMS had a very nice looking GUI that was easily navigated and fairly straightforward to understand and configure.
• There were a wide variety of add-ons available for download and implementation.

Incentivized

• 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

• It takes a fair amount of experimentation to fine tune information collection.
• Configuration can be quite cumbersome with a steep learning curve. It would be nice if more of this could be done via the web dashboard.
• The reliance on Java will put some users off. However, in fairness, it does mean it runs on a wide variety of hardware.

Incentivized

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

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

Although Grafana is in no way an alternative to OpenNMS's full functionality, it can be integrated with other solutions (including OpenNMS itself) to offer the graphing and data visualisation aspects of OpenNMS. In this regard, Grafana is more flexible, and some would say prettier, than OpenNMS's graphing. For the best of both worlds, I'd recommend using them both!

Incentivized

• 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

• We've been able to improve our customers' experience.
• Because we're able to respond to issues quicker, we're able to better meet our SLAs.
• We are able to see smaller problems and address them before they become big problems.

Incentivized