GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator vs. PingPlotter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
Score 10.0 out of 10
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A real-time network monitoring solution focusing on the network user's perspective, that helps administrators to understand how well an organization’s important applications are performing. It offers dashboards that help to identify network use, traffic bottlenecks and problem areas by looking at application or Level 7 performance by app, user, device, and location.N/A
PingPlotter
Score 9.3 out of 10
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PingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier for everyone from online gamers and video streamers to VoIP admins and IT pros. Features for remote deployment, network monitoring, scripting, and a web interface are included along with several additional capabilities.
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Pricing
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestratorPingPlotter
Editions & Modules
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PingPlotter Free
$0.00
per user
PingPlotter Free
$0.00
per user
PingPlotter Standard
$6.99
per user per month
PingPlotter Professional
$29.00
per user per month
PingPlotter Standard
$39.99
per user
PingPlotter Professional
$349.00
per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestratorPingPlotter
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestratorPingPlotter
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestrator
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Ratings
PingPlotter
8.2
Ratings
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Automated network device discovery00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Network monitoring00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Alerts00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
User Ratings
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestratorPingPlotter
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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9.6
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Usability
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8.5
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Support Rating
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9.0
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User Testimonials
GFI Exinda NetworkOrchestratorPingPlotter
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited to traffic control and prioritization WAN Op is limited and does not work reliably
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The best scenario and best results are seen when the path does not reuse the same device for the "next hop". It is less well suited in situations where the path is being tricked by the re-use of devices for the next interface. This is seen required in many networks where the proper type of connection is not on an end device and the core device is used to provide a fiber to copper sort of "pass-through" connection.
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Pros
  • Ease of deployment
  • Traffic policy config
  • Admin console is easy to navigate
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  • Monitor traffic in network
  • Measure stops when contacting network locations such as websites
  • Measures the lag and latency it takes to contact network locations
  • Gives you both induvidual measurements as well as good oversight
  • identifies when network lag or disconnect occurs
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Cons
  • WAN Optimization does not work well
  • Reporting, while available, is difficult to work with
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  • Its a little confusing to see which targets are currently running pings and which ones are displayed in the plots.
  • Starting and stopping pings requires a right click and that would be better with a play/pause button I think.
  • Ability to drag and drop the graphs to reorder them.
  • more columns to show which targets are running and which are displayed. Currently this is done with symbols so you cant sort by just the running targets for example I've found.
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Usability
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I installed it and it just started working. I realized I could then tweak it to show what I needed but didn't have to spend a long time configuring it before use, editing YAML files etc. Maybe that's fine for a network professional, but I only need this software if something goes wrong, and then need it to work quickly out of the box.
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Support Rating
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I have not had much contact with the PingPlotter support, only one time have I went to them and it was a positive experience. The questions I had were answered quickly and professionally. I have no issue with the experience I had with the Support team. This was from before and after the purchase of the product.
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Alternatives Considered
Exinda was a good balance between cost and capability. We replaced an aging Packetshaper infrastructure with Exinda
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PingPlotter has better visualizations and a stronger ability to capture historical data than other tools I've used. This makes it easier to find the root cause by looking back in the log data to find where latency or packet loss occurred.
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Return on Investment
  • Minimize bandwidth expenditures by prioritizing the traffic we care about and controlling the traffic we do not care about.
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  • Great ROI, troubleshooting time has been reduced by 90%
  • Network Discoveries used to take 2 to 3 hours and were inconsistent - now it is a matter of minutes
  • lacks integration into our MSP toolkit, and we now use it as a stand alone product
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