GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator vs. SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)

GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator

SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	A real-time network monitoring solution focusing on the network user's perspective, that helps administrators to understand how well an organization’s important applications are performing. It offers dashboards that help to identify network use, traffic bottlenecks and problem areas by looking at application or Level 7 performance by app, user, device, and location.	N/A
SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)	Score 7.0 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds ipMonitor was a lightweight performance monitoring tool that enabled monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available. The product is discontinued, and no longer available for sale.	$1,570 installation

Pricing

GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator

SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

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

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator Verified User Anonymous Chose GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator Exinda was a good balance between cost and capability. We replaced an aging Packetshaper infrastructure with Exinda. Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued) Anil Pratap Singh Director Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued) Datadog, Dynatrace and Microsoft System Center Incentivized Helpful? Umair Mehboob Senior Devops Engineer Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) We have not evaluated other products recently. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) 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 (discontinued) We are currently switching from IpMonitor to Orion. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator

SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator - Ratings	SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued) 6.7 Ratings 17% below category average
Automated network device discovery	00 Ratings	6.70 Ratings
Network monitoring	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Alerts	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Network mapping	00 Ratings	6.60 Ratings
Customizable reports	00 Ratings	4.20 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)
Small Businesses	NinjaOne Score 9.0 out of 10	NinjaOne Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.2 out of 10	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.2 out of 10	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.2 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator	SolarWinds ipMonitor (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	Well suited to traffic control and prioritization WAN Op is limited and does not work reliably Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Pros	Ease of deployment Traffic policy config Admin console is easy to navigate Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Cons	WAN Optimization does not work well Reporting, while available, is difficult to work with Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	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
Usability	No answers on this topic	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
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	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
Alternatives Considered	Exinda was a good balance between cost and capability. We replaced an aging Packetshaper infrastructure with Exinda Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Return on Investment	Minimize bandwidth expenditures by prioritizing the traffic we care about and controlling the traffic we do not care about. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
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