BlueCat LiveAssurance vs. Intermapper

Intermapper

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BlueCat LiveAssurance	Score 7.0 out of 10	Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)	BlueCat LiveAssurance is a proactive monitoring and automation solution resulting from BlueCat's acquisition of Indeni. The platform provides automated DDI issue detection and insight into remediation to help proactively reduce network downtime.	N/A
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

Pricing

BlueCat LiveAssurance

Intermapper

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BlueCat LiveAssurance	Intermapper
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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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.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	BlueCat LiveAssurance	Intermapper
Considered Both Products	BlueCat LiveAssurance Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Chose BlueCat LiveAssurance Indeni is not a substitution, I guess it can be used for operations support while Cisco Prime does configuration management and PRTG can monitor traffic and/or WAN. Incentivized Helpful?	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?

Features

BlueCat LiveAssurance

Intermapper

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	BlueCat LiveAssurance - Ratings	Intermapper 7.2 Ratings 10% below category average
Automated network device discovery	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Network monitoring	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Alerts	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Network capacity planning	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Network mapping	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	BlueCat LiveAssurance	Intermapper
Small Businesses	Auvik Score 8.7 out of 10	NinjaOne Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.3 out of 10	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.3 out of 10	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
	BlueCat LiveAssurance	Intermapper
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BlueCat LiveAssurance	Intermapper
Likelihood to Recommend	This applies to current releases, I guess the next one will be much more comprehensive. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	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
Pros	Installation and initial setup. Updates. Communications and support from developers. Looks pretty solid, few bugs. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	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
Cons	Hardware support. Slack integration (not sure if really needed, just because many others have this). Universal connector for Linux boxes. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	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
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	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
Alternatives Considered	Indeni is not a substitution, I guess it can be used for operations support while Cisco Prime does configuration management and PRTG can monitor traffic and/or WAN. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	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
Return on Investment	No, I am in the evaluation stage and cannot calculate ROI. Indeni can be used to support the implementation of high-scale projects. Incentivized Sergei Chernooki Network and Project engineer, IT. Cisco Certified Trainer Read full review	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
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