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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AManageEngine offers Firewall Analyzer, a firewall security and policy management option supporting change and compliance of network security devices.

    $395

    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 Firewall AnalyzerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Editions & Modules
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    $1,585
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    Pricing Offerings
    ManageEngine Firewall AnalyzerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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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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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ManageEngine Firewall AnalyzerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Firewall Security Management
    Comparison of Firewall Security Management features of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer and SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Feature
    ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer
    7.3
    8 Ratings
    8% below category average
    SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    -
    Ratings
    Policy planning and rule management7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Policy Orchestration6.44 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device Discovery8.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy Compliance Auditing9.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Attack Path Simulation Testing4.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    Anomalous Event or Behavior Deviation9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Vulnerability Scans6.08 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Rule Cleanup8.06 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    8.6
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ManageEngine Firewall AnalyzerSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Offering enhanced network security, performance, and connectivity, it is well as used in a business setting. Features including application control, web content filtering, firewall, IP address, application control, VPN, and good advanced threat protection. With enhanced features and advanced threat protection you get an awesome performance cost effective firewall device.
    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
    • Live traffic monitor: Firewall Analyzer lets us monitor traffic as it flows through the firewalls. It also breaks it down according to what type of traffic (e.g., web, mail, FTP, etc.) it is. It lists the tops hosts, the top users from traffic, and a lot of other useful statistics, all in a very visual format.
    • Security Monitoring: Another good visual graph Firewall Analyzer provides is the security one, which shows us if we're being attacked, from where, by what, how many, etc. It will also send us alerts when there's an alarm of any kind on the firewall.
    • Reporting: We can run all sorts of custom reports, and that helps us both with compliance and informing management as to what's going on. It would be difficult to describe all the various kinds of things we can include in these reports, but they are extensive.
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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
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Configuration is easy and you can expect all the features and modules.
    • Simple and intuitive dashboard.
    • Firewall Analyzer helps us to gain insight into security threat and traffic.
    • Analyze the user behavior.
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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
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    It is fast to
    download the test software and implement. It takes some sometime to understand the
    ways you have to on board your firewalls into it. It is nice to buy and just
    activate the product that you have already installed. Maybe some wizards could
    be improved in order to accelerate these tasks.
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    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
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it
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    Alternatives Considered
    ManageEngine A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    ManageEngine was chosen over the use of AlgoSec as it slotted nicely with other Manage engine services we use for services such as active directory management. Other benefits include how lightweight and easy to install and set up it is. You can install it inside your network and start testing within 20 minutes.
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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
    • Firewall Analyzer has definitely freed up a lot of IT's time, by congregating logs and displaying them in a more useful, visual way.
    • The cost for licenses and proactive alerting, compared to the man-hours spent reactively through data, paid for itself in a few months.
    • There was no negative impact to users, and only some to IT staff who had to train on the software, which mostly consisted of videos and playing around with the software.
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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.