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Argus vs SolarWinds ipMonitor

Argus
6 Ratings
SolarWinds ipMonitor
55 Ratings

Argus

6 Ratings
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Score 8.5 out of 100

Based on 6 reviews and ratings

SolarWinds ipMonitor

55 Ratings
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Score 8.1 out of 100

Based on 55 reviews and ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Argus

[Argus is] the best property valuation tool on the market but you also can't really do any advanced property valuations without Argus. It's an industry standard and while there are competitors, they do not approach the same feature set or institutional usage the Argus has.

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Robert Lombardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds ipMonitor is well suited in situation where customer do not wants to hold the responsibility of underlying monitoring infrastructure management such as Servers, Database, website and their high availability. And of course when you need Network, Servers, Services fault and performance monitoring. When you have specialized network monitoring requirement such as Configuration backup, netflow traffic analysis then this is not the right tool.

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Rekha Yadav | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Feature Rating Comparison

Network Performance Monitoring

Argus
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SolarWinds ipMonitor
8.2
Automated network device discovery
Argus
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SolarWinds ipMonitor
8.5
Network monitoring
Argus
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SolarWinds ipMonitor
8.9
Alerts
Argus
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SolarWinds ipMonitor
8.5
Network mapping
Argus
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SolarWinds ipMonitor
8.1
Customizable reports
Argus
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SolarWinds ipMonitor
7.2

Pros

Argus

  • Financial forecasting
  • Property Valuation
  • Improves Decision Making

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Robert Lombardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Robert Lombardo
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SolarWinds ipMonitor

  • ipMonitor is well suited to use SNMP sources to monitor up states and usage such as network interfaces
  • ipMonitor does a great job of measuring bandwidth usage and delivering a long term 'picture' of usage
  • ipMonitor has an exceptional interface that is easy to use and simple to navigate

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Mike Maner | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Cons

Argus

  • Price
  • Only game in town

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Robert Lombardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Robert Lombardo
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SolarWinds ipMonitor

  • SolarWinds ipMonitor tool is good for small to medium-size applications but it has some drawbacks for large and busy applications on busy servers.
  • [It] may not able to provide accurate results for applications or servers which work on high loads and busy environments.
  • In our Organization it has been observed on the Clustered environment with always-on technology, and iPMonitor cannot pinpoint the network traffic and performance which servers were switched between the servers. While switching between Active node to passive node in a clustered environment, it cannot pinpoint application web servers issues.

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Srinivas Reddy | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Likelihood to Renew

Argus

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.2
Based on 1 answer
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

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Mike Maner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Mike Maner
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Usability

Argus

Argus 5.0
Based on 1 answer
Argus is the type of program that is very difficult to just sit down and figure out. Our analysts must have formal training in order to use it. The standard is a three day classroom course that is offered on a pretty regular basis.

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Robert Lombardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Robert Lombardo
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SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.1
Based on 8 answers
SolarWinds ipMonitor is a perfectly decent network mapper and performance metric gatherer, but it is held back by the UI, which can be hard to navigate once you have more than a couple dozen assets in there. It is fairly priced, but it also sometimes takes a really long time before results come in.

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Dylan Eikelenboom | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dylan Eikelenboom
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Support Rating

Argus

Argus 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Support is pretty good. The techs are pretty knowledgeable about the product and confident. You don't feel like they are just going through the knowledgebase and they are easy to understand. I have also never been stuck on hold for a long period of time to speak to someone.

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Robert Lombardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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SolarWinds ipMonitor

SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.6
Based on 10 answers
Although I had not much support ticket with ipMonitor support team but I can share my overall experience with SolarWinds products and support team. I am working with SolarWinds support team since last 7 years and in last 2-3 years I have seen a significant improvement in knowledge documentation which is helping end users to troubleshoot problems by themselves. Apart from this SolarWinds phone call based support is very nice as tickets and emails might take some time but a direct phone call can get your job done quickly comparatively.

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Nikhil Kumar Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered

Argus

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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 applications, we could not rely on the community to support us.SolarWinds is a leader on monitoring industry and has a great support.

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Return on Investment

Argus

  • It is costly
  • But the best tool out there
  • A vital decision making tool.

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Robert Lombardo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Robert Lombardo
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SolarWinds ipMonitor

  • We currently use an outside service to monitor critical network nodes. We will do away with that service shortly.
  • We no longer have to wait to hear from our users if there is a network device down. We will be proactively alerted and we can begin to remediate immediately helping to limit downtime.
  • After initial setup and some tweaking, it requires little to no time to maintain.

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Paul Cheng | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Screenshots

Argus

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Pricing Details

Argus

General

Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level set up fee?
No

Argus Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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SolarWinds ipMonitor

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

SolarWinds ipMonitor Editions & Modules

Edition
ipMonitor -2500 Monitors$57701
ipMonitor - 1000 Monitors$26201
ipMonitor - 500 Monitors$15701
  1. installation
Additional Pricing Details
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Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

Argus
10.0
SolarWinds ipMonitor
8.0

Likelihood to Renew

Argus
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SolarWinds ipMonitor
8.2

Usability

Argus
5.0
SolarWinds ipMonitor
8.1

Support Rating

Argus
9.0
SolarWinds ipMonitor
8.6

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