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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ManageEngine OpManager

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AManageEngine's OpManager is network performance monitoring software.

    $95

    per year

    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

    Per Instance

    Pricing
    ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Editions & Modules
    Standard Edition
    $245
    for 10 devices
    Professional Edition
    $345
    for 10 devices
    Enterprise Edition
    11,545
    for 250 devices
    One Time Price
    $1,585
    Per Instance
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$245 per installationNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Considered Both Products
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    SolarWinds
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    43 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    43 Answers
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    44 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    37 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    43 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of ManageEngine OpManager and SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Feature
    ManageEngine OpManager
    8.5
    45 Ratings
    7% above category average
    SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    -
    Ratings
    Automated network device discovery8.944 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring9.242 Ratings00 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation7.441 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts9.244 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network capacity planning7.333 Ratings00 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis8.930 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network mapping8.334 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports8.643 Ratings00 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.731 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring9.245 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (45 ratings)
    8.6
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (12 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Manage Engine OpManager is better suited to serve server and network admins at organization to monitor their servers and network devices. It helps us with compliance with the reports available like utilization reports and capacity planning reports. It helps you to keep track of what all process are consuming the resources. It helps you in monitoring what is happening in your switches, routers and firewall
    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
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • It measures the CPU utilization of hosts, the network bandwidth utilization of links, and other aspects of the operation
    • It often sends messages—sometimes called watchdog messages—over the network to each host to verify if it is responsive to requests.
    • Set Up Notifications And Reports.
    • OpManager offers a set of advantages that allow it to adapt to the needs of the company, guaranteeing effective monitoring of the application networks used in our organization.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Alerts has to be configured correctly otherwise unnecessary bombarding of alerts can cause inconvenience.
    • The server on which ManageEngine OpManager is to be deployed should have higher resources as monitoring a large number of devices may slow down the performance of the system.
    • Configuring the advanced features may require a learning curve.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    This product works very well for our organization, and it would be hard to not have a tool like this going forward
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    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The rating I provided is based on the product quality, experience (I have been using OpManager for almost the last 4 years), and relevance of the information/response I generated through Manage Engine OpManager. I have also received good support from OpManager.
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    SolarWinds
    Very easy to use and intuitive. Just be careful with the WAN Killer...it does what it says.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    At first, we were not able to add our Avaya switches to the configuration backup module, our partner tried to help, but they did not find the solution, we had one remote session with tech support of ME and they solve the problem.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    During our competitive analysis, we found ManageEngine OpManager was not expensive compared to other vendors. At the same time, there was no compromise on the features such as customized reporting or configuring alerts per our clientele's unique requirements. These are our client words "Other vendors ask us to pay more $$$ for enabling additional email alerts".
    Incentivized
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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
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • I don't know if you can calculate ROI with a monitoring solution, there are more factors to calculate.
    • We found a really big problem with a network switch (faulty transceiver) in a trunk configuration with OPManager. this caused us serial troubles with the overall network stability.
    • We are loosing around € 3.000 to 5.000 per hour if our network is not working so this was a great help to fix this issue
    • Our label printers are really important to monitoring in our warehouse system, this makes OPManager a great solution for that
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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
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    ManageEngine OpManager Screenshots

    Screenshot of OpManager's DashboardScreenshot of OpManager's realtime graphsScreenshot of a device snapshot page in OpManagerScreenshot of Alarms in OpManager

    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.