SolarWinds ipMonitor vs. ManageEngine OpManager

SolarWinds ipMonitor

ManageEngine OpManager

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
ManageEngine OpManager	Score 6.7 out of 10	N/A	ManageEngine's OpManager is network performance monitoring software.	$245 for 10 devices

Pricing

SolarWinds ipMonitor

ManageEngine OpManager

Editions & Modules

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

Standard Edition: $245
for 10 devices
Professional Edition: $345
for 10 devices
Enterprise Edition: 11,545
for 250 devices

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

$245 per installation

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	SolarWinds ipMonitor	ManageEngine OpManager
Considered Both Products	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?	ManageEngine OpManager TS Toby Short VP / IT Director Chose ManageEngine OpManager it is great. Not opensource. Ours was run by a 3rd party provider who had their own version of nmap. The setup and use is simple and get tons of output in reports and alerts. I would like to get more use of this product as I learn more about it Incentivized Helpful? DN Dhanasekar Naidu Manager IT Operation Chose ManageEngine OpManager We have an existing relationship with Manage Engine. Manage engine was a better product in comparison with the other products. It has as option to have addons like network configuration Manager, Firewall log analyzer, switch port mapper, Ip address manager and packet analyzer. M… Incentivized Helpful? SC Sakthivel Chinnusamy Senior Lead Engineer Chose ManageEngine OpManager Comprehensive with real time SNMP based monitoring. Detailed , out of the box reports for SLA compliance Incentivized Helpful? Magdi Hanna IT Operations Manager Chose ManageEngine OpManager I only use ManageEngine OpManager Incentivized Helpful? SF Stephen Fuller DevOps Engineer Chose ManageEngine OpManager Compared to the Solarwinds products ManageEngine OpManager is much easier to configure and use. It's also vastly cheaper! Something like the Solarwinds suite of applications is incredibly complicated and difficult to configure. ManageEngine OpManager is very straightforward to … Incentivized Helpful? Anil Dahiya Solution Architect Chose ManageEngine OpManager ManageEngine OpManager is very easy to manage and easy to scale, and the GUI is far better than all available products in the market. We can have a single dashboard of all offerings of ManageEngine OpManager and they can be distributed through role-based access for monitoring … Incentivized Helpful? RH ROBBY HERNANDA Data Center & DRC Senior Staff Chose ManageEngine OpManager ManageEngine OpManager is more user-friendly and easy to use. It is all on your screen to set up and organize. The service logs monitor could display over a month of performance history, and you can make reports for each of the services, which others cannot do. The 3D viewer, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager ManageEngine OpManager is faster, not bloated, and less expensive. Wins in every category in my opinion. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager We have been using ManageEngine Opmanager for quite a long time, I'm not aware if the company was using other products before I joined. Incentivized Helpful? IR Ishan Rana Network/system administrator Chose ManageEngine OpManager We found ManageEngine OpManager easier to plan, implement, and train our team. Incentivized Helpful? Nisar Shaikh Solution Architecht Chose ManageEngine OpManager ManageEngine stands out effectively when compared to ControlUp monitoring solutions, mainly due to distinct architectural differences. One key advantage is its versatile deployment options, including Incentivized Helpful? Murugesh Perumal Sr Systems Engineer Chose ManageEngine OpManager 1. inhouse deployment using ManageEngine OpManager is easy and possible, but site24x7 has cloud based monitoring 2. We use both tools but ManageEngine OpManager is user friendly 3. it has free version up to 10 devices to monitor 4. Always available and very less updates … Incentivized Helpful? AT Anish Tuladhar Sr. Systems Engineer Chose ManageEngine OpManager OpManager teams' technical support was excellent. They helped us throughout the implementation - from the initial discovery phase. It is also very easy to use. Our Infrastructure team was able to use it with minimal training. Incentivized Helpful? HS Harvinder Singh Practice Head - Tools Chose ManageEngine OpManager OpManager's straightforward license policy simplifies our product selection process significantly. This clarity enables us to make informed decisions aligned with our business needs, facilitating efficient budgeting and resource allocation. The transparent licensing structure … Incentivized Helpful? AF Adam Frederick CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose ManageEngine OpManager OpManager is the best solution between all the vendors we reviewed. When completing your request for proposal, be specific as possible with your expectations and needs. Ensure the vendor you select is the correct fit. OpManager selected all the check boxes for our … Incentivized Helpful? PP Premkumar Poovaragavan NOC IT Associate Chose ManageEngine OpManager A hardware monitor is a software application used for hardware health monitoring. Hardware monitor software can collect a wide range of information related to hardware health, including CPU, temperature, and fan speed. Incentivized Helpful? CP CESAR ENRIQUE PADILLA SUAREZ PROJECT MANAGER Chose ManageEngine OpManager OpManager, compared to other platforms, is much cheaper, compared to performance and performance, it has the same characteristics as other tools and is quite fast compared to its market competitors. The sensors it has are useful at the level of network equipment, although it … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager more accurate with great GUI + it agentless Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager Reliable with almost no false positives at all Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager I think for the price this product offers much more. Maybe not as pretty but certainly is feature rich with the ability to add and manage multiple device brands (Cisco, Cisco Meraki, Fortinet, Palo) in an easy to use and very customizable interface. You can get as deep as you … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager Before implementing ME OpManager, I used the Nagios Core monitoring system. When choosing OpManager, we also considered other options. One option was to stay with Nagios. Other monitoring systems we considered were Zabbix and op5 Monitor. The advantage of Opmanager was based on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager ManageEngine OpManager is the best, most suitable Network Device Monitoring solution I have used. It is straightforward to setup, configure, administrate and tailor. It also has a very good UI and a comprehensive device Template repository. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager ManageEngine OpManager provides us with the same functionality, the web UI performs better and the price is much less. Support is quick to respond to any issues and the community also has a lot of great information and people willing to help and share their experiences and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager Main reason to select ManageEngine was price/performance ratio. Another reason was great coverage of monitoring of different technologies and modules: network devices of various vendors, network modules like NCM, NFA, support for monitoring of vmware virtualisation , citrix … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose ManageEngine OpManager During our competitive analysis, we found ManageEngine OpManager was not expensive compared to other vendors. At the same time, there was no compromise on the features such as customized reporting or configuring alerts per our clientele's unique requirements. These are our … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

SolarWinds ipMonitor

ManageEngine OpManager

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	SolarWinds ipMonitor 6.7 Ratings 20% below category average	ManageEngine OpManager 8.7 Ratings 6% above category average
Automated network device discovery	6.70 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Network monitoring	8.00 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Alerts	8.20 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Network mapping	6.60 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Customizable reports	4.20 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Network capacity planning	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	00 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	00 Ratings	9.10 Ratings

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User Ratings
	SolarWinds ipMonitor	ManageEngine OpManager
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	SolarWinds ipMonitor	ManageEngine OpManager
Likelihood to Recommend	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	OpManager offers a set of advantages that allow it to adapt to the needs of the company, guaranteeing effective monitoring of the application networks used in our organization. It has an intuitive and easy-to-use interface. The initial setup went smoothly and in a decent amount of time. Incentivized PP Premkumar Poovaragavan NOC IT Associate Read full review
Pros	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	We changed our RDP port to a non-standard port and monitor servers by that instead of a simple ping. Systems that are busted will still respond to pings. The dashboard shows us any drives that are almost full. We check this when we do our monthly maintenance. Monitoring Windows services and event log events and sending notifications when things don't behave as expected. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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	Adding devices to existing groups and applying a group-wide parameter. Email alerts can be a bit challenging depending on how email is managed within a company, sometimes adding ManageEngine OpManager to the allowed relay list for Exchange is necessary to receive any alerts Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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	This product works very well for our organization, and it would be hard to not have a tool like this going forward Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	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	The rating I provided is based on the product quality, experience (I have been using OpManager for almost the last 4 years), and relevance of the information/response I generated through Manage Engine OpManager. I have also received good support from OpManager. Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	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	At first, we were not able to add our Avaya switches to the configuration backup module, our partner tried to help, but they did not find the solution, we had one remote session with tech support of ME and they solve the problem. Incentivized HM humberto martinez CIO (Chief Information Officer) Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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	We have an existing relationship with Manage Engine. Manage engine was a better product in comparison with the other products. It has as option to have addons like network configuration Manager, Firewall log analyzer, switch port mapper, Ip address manager and packet analyzer. Manage engine has an excellent customer support who are always available and response is quick Incentivized DN Dhanasekar Naidu Manager IT Operation Read full review
Return on Investment	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	ROI has very much increased as we are able to fix issues in a faster manner. Monitoring for system administrators has become easy using ManageEngine OpManager getting a centralized view. Alerts are helping during odd hours where manual intervention is not possible. NF Nayab Falke Senior Manager IT Read full review
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