Intermapper vs SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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