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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Colasoft Capsa

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AColasoft Capsa is a network performance monitoring and protocol analyzing tool. Capsa provides core monitoring features, as well as automated diagnostics and packet decoding. Colasoft offers a limited free version of the software.N/A

    HPE Intelligent Management Center

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), formerly known as HP Network Management Center, is a network performance monitoring option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.

    $1,710.07

    one-time fee 50‑node License E‑LTU

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    Colasoft CapsaHPE Intelligent Management Center
    Editions & Modules
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    Basic Edition
    $1,710.07
    one-time fee 50‑node License E‑LTU
    Enterprise Edition
    $5,884.04
    one-time fee 50‑node License E‑LTU
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    Pricing Offerings
    Colasoft CapsaHPE Intelligent Management Center
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Monthly pricing available through HPE financing options.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Colasoft CapsaHPE Intelligent Management Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
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    Support Rating
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    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Colasoft CapsaHPE Intelligent Management Center
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Colasoft
    Capsa is highly recommended to be used in small dense areas of a network where it makes sense to be able to run analytics off of a mirror port to gain insight into traffic trends. It is a costly product to install in branch locations, and requires a decent spec hardware to run appropriately
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Its very good and easy to do custom polling by importing MIB files where we had challenges to do out of box monitoring. Integration is easy.
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    Pros
    Colasoft
    • Robust Application. Able to handle traffic that most businesses will throw at it.
    • Easy to use. Easy to setup captures and filter down to specific traffic types.
    • Relatively cheap for what it's able to accomplish.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Multivendor flexibility.
    • Topology map features.
    • Backup configurations.
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    Cons
    Colasoft
    • Needs options to scale to 10Gb/s networks. The cutoff for performance looks to be around 3Gb/sl
    • Needs API access to trigger capturesl
    • Needs Agents for remote capturesl
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components.
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    Support Rating
    Colasoft
    No answers on this topic
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    They are fast responding when you create a support case. But they also have a forum (community) where you can find knowledge-base information that is very useful.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Colasoft
    Colasoft performs more like the traditional wireshark as opposed to other solutions that tend to focus on graphs instead of giving you the raw data. I personally prefer the raw data, and then the ability to build graphs upon this (which Capsa can do). This allows for quicker analysis and makes it easier to relate to.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Cause of the great gui and easy management can be customized to your liking. The awesome topology maps you can make easy to change make it your own design. Great support. Don't need a large database to run. Can handle multiple users at once with ease. Overall a great product recommend to anyone
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    Return on Investment
    Colasoft
    • While the product doesn't detect malware, it has helped track down malware infected machines by using data from other applications to run filters to look for known traffic destinations for that malware. For me this is a huge ROI since malware can be the great unknown.
    • Relatively cheap compared to the feature set.
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Easy to implement
    • Easy to configure
    • Overall good monitoring tool
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