Intermapper vs. SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

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 Engineer's Toolset	Score 9.4 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps users monitor and troubleshoot a network with over 60 tools for network management. ETS allows users to monitor and receive alerts in real time on network availability and health, and perform network diagnostics for faster troubleshooting and resolution of complex network issues. With ETS users can deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper or advanced Subnet Calculator, manage Cisco® devices with specialized…	$1,585 Per Instance

Pricing

Intermapper

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Editions & Modules

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One Time Price: $1,585
Per Instance

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Intermapper	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
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 Engineer's Toolset
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 Engineer's Toolset Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset [Wireshark is just] not the same. It feels like in incomplete product. [SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset] is complete, not buggy and is supported[.] Incentivized Helpful? TO Thomas Osborne Network System Administrator Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I haven't compared any tools similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. This might be because I'm pretty biased when it comes to monitoring, and reporting solutions. I've found that SolarWinds provides the biggest bang for the buck in my opinion. I'm sure there are other … Incentivized Helpful? Steven Tom Public Safety Systems Engineer Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We honestly didn't look at much beyond this because of all of the tools this toolset had in it. We found a use for a good chunk of them right away, and are finding more every month it seems like. We really wanted to make use of the majority of the tools included so we could … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset To be honest, I'm not aware of any other toolset from a competitor that is remotely comparable. All other monitoring systems/vendors tend to use standard browser viewable monitoring systems and the option to use a locally installed software, to obtain the same results is not … Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset We have used LogicMonitor, PRTG and WhatsUp Gold previously which are similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset capability. However SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is completely unique with features like - Realtime monitoring, diagnostics on the fly, network discovery, easy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset The suite of tools included is better than any other offering that I have found. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of … Incentivized Helpful? ES Eric Stephenson Manager IS Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset I love the NPM package, but if you are doing one-off monitoring to diagnose, SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is more than adequate. The main drawback with SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset is the monitoring is only valid as long as you have the laptop on (obviously). NPM provides for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Because it's a great tool. Very useful, convenient and reliant, We use it to monitor out production servers and it works just great. I use it pretty much every day, and it is very good monitoring system, that allows proactively troubleshoot certain areas, because you can see … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds by far exceeds the abilities of other products, and is more easily tuned to the environments. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset SolarWinds NPM and NCM use a lot of the tools available in the toolset. This is a nice combo of the two with a little bit of IPAM thrown in. I would say the toolset is geared more toward the field engineer, that will be doing work that may sever communications to the rest of … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Intermapper

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	Intermapper 7.2 Ratings 13% below category average	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset - Ratings
Automated network device discovery	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network monitoring	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network capacity planning	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network mapping	8.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	7.00 Ratings	00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Intermapper	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Intermapper	SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
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 Engineer's Toolset is] a great tool for monitoring database servers, highly recommended. The very good thing is that it keeps the history for two weeks, and you can see the time slice for all the server activities. Helps a lot to identify the memory and CPU bottlenecks, research blocking issues and kill the sessions, if necessary. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Debugging Tools Saves Time for basic checks Ping, Telnet, SSH right from the console and hence easy user management from console itself Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant 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	The unifying component that is intended to be the initial interface to the tools seems clunky. I prefer to start the tools individually rather than using it. The port scanner could use some improvements to make it easier to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Very easy to use and intuitive. Just be careful with the WAN Killer...it does what it says. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	These tools complement the Engineer's Toolset. They are excellent at detecting most issues and at keeping the network monitored and protected. However, when it comes time to dig into an issue, especially a hard to fix intermittent issue, these products lack the granularity of monitoring needed for these types of issues. Having said that the toolset is not made to do full time enterprise level monitoring. With these tools and the toolset I am able to have a more complete view of the network and deliver higher levels of service and quicker responses to issues. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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	Spend less time downloading free buggy tools All the tools in one spot, so you don't have to look around for tools Get to the solution sooner Incentivized Jacob Garrett Senior System Engineer Read full review
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