HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) vs. NETSCOUT nGeniusONE

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), formerly known as HP Network Management Center, is a network performance monitoring option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.N/A
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
NETSCOUT’s nGeniousONE is a platform designed to monitor enterprise-level networks. It includes standard monitoring capabilities, as well as advanced inspection and analytics features.N/A
Pricing
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
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HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
9.4
5 Ratings
13% above category average
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
8.7
6 Ratings
6% above category average
Automated network device discovery10.05 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Network monitoring10.05 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation10.05 Ratings8.05 Ratings
Alerts10.05 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Network capacity planning10.05 Ratings7.06 Ratings
Packet capture analysis10.05 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Network mapping8.05 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Customizable reports8.05 Ratings8.06 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring8.04 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring10.05 Ratings8.03 Ratings
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User Ratings
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(5 ratings)
10.0
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
6.5
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.3
(4 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)NETSCOUT nGeniusONE
Likelihood to Recommend
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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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NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is a great network performance monitoring tool as it helps to trace the path of packet and to identify the exact place where the packet is loss. It is well suited in scenarios where the organization have large network and they need continuous monitoring because loss of connectivity may lead to serious financial loss in sectors like banking, hospitals. The network performance and connectivity needs to be stable for proper execution of transactions, bookings, data transfer and other critical task. Performance monitoring of large enterprise is a big task and doing that manually requires very much effort, but with NETSCOUT nGeniusONE it becomes easy. It is not well suited in scenarios where there is small network and they can survive if any link flaps for small duration of time.
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Pros
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Multivendor flexibility.
  • Topology map features.
  • Backup configurations.
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NETSCOUT
  • NetScout nGeniusONE can help to deep dive into the packet layer, help to identify the real network and service performance problems in the protocol layer. We have been using NetScout nGeniusONE as the main monitoring solution for the mobile network for many years.
  • I have recently use NetScout nGeniusONE to support problem troubleshooting for a customer issue complaining of slow application connection into our Datacenter services. it was easy to use NetScout nGeniusONE to capture the problematic connection sessions by using various type of filters and export a pcap file for further analysis.
  • I‘ve also use NetScout nGeniusONE to investigate an NBN connection issue which was intermittent and hard to capture, however, by using NetScout nGeniusONE it was easy to go back to the history capture and logs, so we won't miss any important leads.
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Cons
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components.
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NETSCOUT
  • Better access to resources
  • Pricing in this niche market is very high, hard for the little guy to take advantage of these solutions
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Usability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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NETSCOUT
Requires quite a bit of training not only for config but to use. Highly recommend having a SME come in from Netscout to help initially for these. Once you learn the UI, it’s much better to use but is not intuitive.
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Support Rating
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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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NETSCOUT
If you spend the right amount of money with them they work very close to you to support your needs. I ignore how they work in companies with lower expenses on their products. NetScout is not a very dynamic introducing platform with enhancements that their customers need. We contract their professional services so support level is good, although too pricey from my perspective.
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Alternatives Considered
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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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NETSCOUT
Wireshark has been around for years and has been used primarily for packet analyzing. NetScout does this and goes above and beyond with the graphics interface analyzes and customer filtering for packet analyzes. You can go straight to the packet analyze within NetScout but you will find that to be more work, this would be like starting with Wireshark. Instead, begin with the graphical interface to narrow down the traffic, a visual effect. Then go to the packet analyzer, time saver. As for PRTG, it's a NetFlow/SNMP collector with a quick and dirty look at traffic but lacks the tools to dig into the information it provides.
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Return on Investment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Easy to implement
  • Easy to configure
  • Overall good monitoring tool
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NETSCOUT
  • NETSCOUT nGeniusONE is the best tool and very profitable for our organization as it helped in to reduce the manual effort of engineers to track the Network flaps and connectivity issue.
  • Return on investment for this product is quiet good as of now and we have achieved 80% ROI till now and we are very much confident that we will achieve the full ROI.
  • It has helped in cost cutting as we need only few network admin and engineers to track the discovery, behavior and connectivity. Earlier we need a lot of employee to do that due to which the organization may suffer some financial loss.
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