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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps users monitor and troubleshoot a network with over 60 tools for network management. ETS allows users to monitor and receive alerts in real time on network availability and health, and perform network diagnostics for faster troubleshooting and resolution of complex network issues. With ETS users can deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper or advanced Subnet Calculator, manage Cisco® devices with specialized…

    $1,585

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    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Editions & Modules
    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
    One Time Price
    $1,585
    Per Instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsMonthly pricing available through HPE financing options.—
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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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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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.6
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HPE Intelligent Management CenterSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    I have found the toolset especially useful for scanning subnets to discover devices, and for setting up temporary real-time monitors when we are troubleshooting or setting up new connections. The most useful aspect has been the ability to apply the tools to help troubleshoot and pinpoint intermittent issues. More general tools like Orion often do not have the granularity to detect issues like intermittent packet loss which are especially impactful to applications like Voice. The toolset gives us another level of capability to dig into issues.
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    Pros
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Multivendor flexibility.
    • Topology map features.
    • Backup configurations.
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    SolarWinds
    • Various monitoring
    • Stores history
    • Suggests indices
    • Helps to find the SQL query text
    • Helps to see what machines/users the bad queries are coming from
    • Shows current blocking session
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    Cons
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components.
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    SolarWinds
    • The unifying component that is intended to be the initial interface to the tools seems clunky. I prefer to start the tools individually rather than using it.
    • The port scanner could use some improvements to make it easier to use.
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    Usability
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Very easy to use and intuitive. Just be careful with the WAN Killer...it does what it says.
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    Support Rating
    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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    SolarWinds
    Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    SolarWinds
    I haven't compared any tools similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. This might be because I'm pretty biased when it comes to monitoring, and reporting solutions. I've found that SolarWinds provides the biggest bang for the buck in my opinion. I'm sure there are other solutions on the market that compete, but I haven't tried any of them because I've been very satisfied with SolarWinds.
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    Return on Investment
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Easy to implement
    • Easy to configure
    • Overall good monitoring tool
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    • Spend less time downloading free buggy tools
    • All the tools in one spot, so you don't have to look around for tools
    • Get to the solution sooner
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    ScreenShots

    SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Screenshots

    Screenshot of Perform network stress tests with Engineer's Toolset WAN Killer. You don’t need to use real traffic for studying network activities, like testing traffic and load balancing. Instead, deploy Engineer's Toolset WAN Killer to help interactively test connections and adjust the IP traffic generated to achieve the desired network load based on your requirements.Screenshot of Quickly troubleshoot your network with enhanced ping capabilities and packet route tracing, among other network bandwidth usage and monitoring tools included in ETS.Screenshot of Using ETS, you can run scans to gain insight into how routers, hubs switches, and other devices are configured by analyzing SNMP queries and viewing MIB attributes. ETS is designed to help you more easily understand whether your network and ports are using appropriate settings.Screenshot of Config Compare, a part of ETS, is built to compare the running configuration of a Cisco router with the startup configuration. With the Cisco configuration compare tool, you can easily detect the changes made to the network, switch, and router configurations that are not committed to non-volatile memory (NVRAM).Screenshot of Manage your IP network from discovery to address tracking. Discover subnets on a seed router and scan the subnet or a range of IP addresses, generate a list of subnets along with their mask, size, range, and broadcast address and actively monitor subnets to identify and track which IP addresses are in use on your network.