HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) vs. SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)

HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting 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
SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds Network Automation Manager is designed to scale to environments of all sizes while providing comprehensive performance, traffic, WAN, and switch port monitoring, automated change and configuration, and IP address management in a single, unified software solution. Key differentiators: Customizable, single-pane-of-glass network monitoring software Topology- and dependency-aware intelligent alerts Real-time config change…	N/A

Pricing

HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Optional

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
Top Pros	Pro Easy management Pro Management interface	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Licensing model Minus Last version Minus Needs a little	No answers on this topic

Features

HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)

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	SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM) - Ratings
Automated network device discovery	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network monitoring	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network capacity planning	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network mapping	8.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable reports	8.05 Ratings	00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	8.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	10.05 Ratings	00 Ratings

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	HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
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User Ratings
	HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (5 ratings)	9.5 (2 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)	SolarWinds Network Automation Manager (NAM)
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. Incentivized BB Bharath B Lead Consultant Read full review	SolarWinds Well Suited Areas - 1. Network Fault and Performance Monitoring 2. Network Devices Configuration Backup and Configuration Push 3. Netflow Analysis 4. Call Quality Monitoring for Cisco and Avaya 5. Users Ports Management 6. DSN/DHCP Monitoring 7. Alerting and Integration Not Well Suited - 1. Predictive Intelligence based Alerting or data analysis 2. REST API Based Monitoring. 3. SD-WAN Monitoring Incentivized Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead Read full review
Pros	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Multivendor flexibility. Topology map features. Backup configurations. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds Fault and Performance Monitoring Devices Configuration Backup IP Address Management Voice Infrastructure Monitoring Users Ports monitoring Netflow Traffic Utilization Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Solutions Architect and COE Lead Read full review
Cons	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds Support for more call infra provider vendors Cloud Network Monitoring Event Management Predictive Intelligence using AIOps and ML Incentivized Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead Read full review
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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds No answers on this topic
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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds Well Solarwinds is placed much ahead of these products because of the following reasons - One single tool which can perform Fault, Performance Monitoring, Network Bandwidth Utilization, Devices configuration backup, IP Address Management, NetPath, Voice Infra Monitoring, Traps and Syslog Logging, Alerting's, Users Ports Monitoring, Rpeorting etc and hence this make Solarwinds a complete solutions. Whereas other products Like Microfocus requires multiple modules and installation is not easy. LogicMonitor on the other side is well competing (Specially SD-WAN Monitoring) with Solarwinds but it still lacks Devices Configuration Push feature, IP Address Management, NetPath, Users Port Monitoring etc. Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Solutions Architect and COE Lead Read full review
Return on Investment	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Easy to implement Easy to configure Overall good monitoring tool Incentivized BB Bharath B Lead Consultant Read full review	SolarWinds Our Network Health has improved with Proactive Monitoring Cost reduction on additional products like PowerBI for Reporting Service Now Integration was easy enough and hence less efforts and cost Incentivized Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead Read full review
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