ManageEngine OpManager vs. SolarWinds Network Device Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ManageEngine OpManager
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
ManageEngine's OpManager is network performance monitoring software.
$95
per year
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is a network diagnostic tool, from Austin-based SolarWinds.N/A
Pricing
ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Network Device Monitor
Editions & Modules
Standard Edition
$245
for 10 devices
Professional Edition
$345
for 10 devices
Enterprise Edition
11,545
for 250 devices
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Network Device Monitor
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$245 per installationNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Network Device Monitor
Considered Both Products
ManageEngine OpManager
Chose ManageEngine OpManager
We have an existing relationship with Manage Engine.
Manage engine was a better product in comparison with the other products. It has as option to have addons like network configuration Manager, Firewall log analyzer, switch port mapper, Ip address manager and packet analyzer.
M…
Chose ManageEngine OpManager
OpManager, compared to other platforms, is much cheaper, compared to performance and performance, it has the same characteristics as other tools and is quite fast compared to its market competitors. The sensors it has are useful at the level of network equipment, although it …
Chose ManageEngine OpManager
ManageEngine OpManager is very easy to manage and easy to scale, and the GUI is far better than all available products in the market. We can have a single dashboard of all offerings of ManageEngine OpManager and they can be distributed through role-based access for monitoring …
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
Chose SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
Cognizant has done extensive POC/POV on SolarWinds modules specifically on NPM and we believe it has out of the box broad range of devices, vendors, and versions monitoring and also multiple modules options like NCM for
Features
ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Network Device Monitor
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
ManageEngine OpManager
8.5
45 Ratings
6% above category average
SolarWinds Network Device Monitor
-
Ratings
Automated network device discovery8.944 Ratings00 Ratings
Network monitoring9.242 Ratings00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation7.641 Ratings00 Ratings
Alerts9.344 Ratings00 Ratings
Network capacity planning7.533 Ratings00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis8.930 Ratings00 Ratings
Network mapping8.234 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports8.543 Ratings00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring7.631 Ratings00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring9.245 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Network Device Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(45 ratings)
8.4
(19 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(12 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ManageEngine OpManagerSolarWinds Network Device Monitor
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
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SolarWinds
On its own, it's a solid choice for an SMB or Mid-size Enterprise if you're price sensitive and looking primarily for core functionality. SolarWinds has a large family of products that can also be leveraged in conjunction with SWNDM. Turning the product loose on a very large environment for discovery and mapping should be done with care and concern for a number of reasons but including the performance of the product for this task. If you're looking for an all-in-one product with some presumed supporting features built in (config manager, etc.) you'll need to look elsewhere.
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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.
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SolarWinds
  • Monitor for and record network device configuration changes.
  • Allow for the creation, or modification, of hardening standards for multiple vendors' network devices.
  • Automate the creation of alerts that can be sent to owners for correction of compliance violations.
  • Allow you to organize a visualization of your network devices.
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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
  • More security put into the product, the Orion hack was not good news.
  • More frequent releases to address small bugs rather than big releases that are rare.
  • More IPv6 related features to make it easier for people familiar with IPv4 to learn IPv6.
  • Ability to edit dashboards using JSON or another similar language.
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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
No answers on this topic
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.
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SolarWinds
No answers on this topic
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".
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SolarWinds
MS is meant for windows monitoring and up/down for mostly everything else. Moved away from MS System Center. Now we have better visibility and management can get reports. The other teams have added Linux to Solarwinds and also see improvements in monitoring. Whether you use snmp (v3), wmi or some other credentials to connect to you system, Solarwinds will more than likely be able to manage and monitor it.
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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
  • Reduced site visits and recurring issues by 25 to 35%
  • Enables proactive warning, thereby reducing downtime caused by unforeseen issues
  • Provides a central panel for monitoring the entire network at a glance
  • Allows for SLA management thereby increasing accountability by 50%
  • Reduced time to repair by 35% as techs are more informed of root cause
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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