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SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Likelihood to Recommend
Intermapper
Intermapper is a light weight, quick and easy to use monitoring application. It will get you up and monitoring key infrastructure devices with a simple management interface and effective alert system that doesn't generate a lot of noise. It provides mobile device access through a web interface and is relatively inexpensive.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employeesSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Absolutely I would recommend the product. If you want a single product to monitor and manage your whole environment, whether it's hardware, servers (physical or virtualised), networking and all from a single "portal" Solarwinds SAM is what you want to use. You could quite easily start off with SAM, and then decide you wish to monitor the networking side of things, you can obtain the NTA/MPM module, if you wish to monitor IP address usage, or IP conflicts, DHCP etc., you can install the IPAM module. It all neatly integrates into the same portal, meaning you go to one address and all the information is there at your fingertips.
Systems Engineer
Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional CouncilGovernment Relations, 501-1000 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Network Performance Monitoring
Intermapper
8.4
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Automated network device discovery
Intermapper
7.7
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Network monitoring
Intermapper
10.0
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Baseline threshold calculation
Intermapper
6.4
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Alerts
Intermapper
10.0
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Network capacity planning
Intermapper
7.0
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Packet capture analysis
Intermapper
8.0
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Network mapping
Intermapper
9.4
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Wireless infrastructure monitoring
Intermapper
6.8
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Hardware health monitoring
Intermapper
10.0
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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Application Performance Management
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.1
Application monitoring
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.6
Database monitoring
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
7.8
Threshold alerts
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.4
Predictive capabilities
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
7.4
Application performance management console
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.1
Collaboration tools
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
7.1
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
7.7
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
7.6
Virtualization monitoring
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.4
Server availability and performance monitoring
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
9.0
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.4
IT Asset Discovery
Intermapper
—
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
8.1
Pros
Intermapper
- The best thing about Intermapper is that it is map-based. You start by building your map, which is done completely automatically. I've used many different monitoring software packages, Solarwinds, Nagios, Opmanager, and it is a royal PITA to create live maps with those.
- Another great feature is that it shows you, visually, the bandwidth utilization of your network by using "ants" and color codes. Incredibly useful.
- Alarms are very easy to setup, again much easier than the packages mentioned above.
Director of IT
Operation SmileNon-Profit Organization Management, 51-200 employees
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- Identify and monitor critical services on an IBMi platform.
- Identify and monitor critical services on a Windows Server Platform.
- Set thresholds to provide notifications where necessary to address serious issues before it hampers the operation.
- Provide usage reports and other data that can be useful for forming IT Strategy.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Investment Banking Company, 51-200 employeesCons
Intermapper
- Setting up probes in bulk can be difficult, so it can take a long time to get the system set up correctly to start.
- Sometimes the probes can be sensitive and report false positives.
- Interface can be a little clunky and non intuitive at times.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Primary/Secondary Education Company, 201-500 employeesSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- The new node based licensing model makes it difficult to justify the price for nodes that only utilize a few components.
- Script results need to be a statistic. It would be a lot more useful if we could populate a table of results, including alpha-numeric strings, boolean, etc.
- A lot of the AppInsight components cannot be disabled. You have to either use the whole template or nothing.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employeesLikelihood to Renew
Intermapper
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 8.3
Based on 11 answers
I love the product and the alerts are within the millisecond, which can be the difference between life and death in some cases. As a beginner user, it was difficult getting around or add new hosts to monitor. However, after reading guides an familiarizing myself with the product, I realized how powerful and extremely useful this product. The reason I don't give a 10 is the learning curve.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employeesUsability
Intermapper
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 8.7
Based on 30 answers
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is quite easy to use and super versatile. It allows you to do just about anything you can through premade templates or through scripting. You can use an agent on the servers if you want to, or you can monitor through WMI or SNMP credentials. You can customize thresholds for alerting quickly, and you can configure alerts to be as complex or as simple as you want.
IT Analyst
Regions BankBanking, 5001-10,000 employees
Reliability and Availability
Intermapper
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6
Based on 2 answers
I only use dpa
Programmer Analyst
USDHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Performance
Intermapper
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6
Based on 2 answers
Takes time to load

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Law Practice Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
Intermapper
Intermapper 9.0
Based on 1 answer
The product works well and is very easy to maintain. As such, we haven't had many occasions to use support. When we have called them they were easy to contact and responsive to our questions. We have had the product for years and it may have been a year or better since the last time we contacted them.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Government Administration Company, 501-1000 employeesSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 8.0
Based on 20 answers
I think there was only a couple times I had to open a support case for SAM and one time they got multiple engineers on the phone to get a better idea what I was trying to monitor and was able to point me in the best direction to monitor that system.
System Administrator
Vast BroadbandTelecommunications, 201-500 employees
Online Training
Intermapper
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.5
Based on 1 answer
It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
Programmer Analyst
USDHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Implementation Rating
Intermapper
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6
Based on 3 answers
Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Law Practice Company, 201-500 employeesAlternatives Considered
Intermapper
Intermapper is a cross between WhatsUp Gold and Nagios. WhatsUp Gold being for a less technical end-user and Nagios doing more than just SNMP scans and up down monitoring.

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 5001-10,000 employeesSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Retail Company, 1001-5000 employeesScalability
Intermapper
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 4.6
Based on 2 answers
It is hard to find the recommended SQL setup and convince others that is the way you should configure the server when you set it up
Programmer Analyst
USDHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
Return on Investment
Intermapper
- Ability to provide real time alerting has proven to save our necks multiple times, since polling intervals could be set at a very low intervals.
- Real time monitoring of links provided ability to identify bottlenecks in real time!
- Writing custom probes, saved us thousands.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
- SolarWinds has helped to improve proactive resolution or mitigation of application issues. This has often resulted in issues fixed before customers were aware of the problem.
- SolarWinds has provided valuable information when troubleshooting issues to meet Service Level Agreements.
- SolarWinds has helped get the correct team working on issues.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 1001-5000 employeesScreenshots
Pricing Details
Intermapper
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No