HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) vs. PingPlotter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), formerly known as HP Network Management Center, is a network performance monitoring option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.N/A
PingPlotter
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
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.
$0
per user
Pricing
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)PingPlotter
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
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)PingPlotter
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)PingPlotter
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
9.4
Ratings
14% above category average
PingPlotter
8.2
Ratings
0% above category average
Automated network device discovery10.00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Network monitoring10.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation10.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Alerts10.00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Network capacity planning10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Network mapping8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reports8.00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)PingPlotter
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.6
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.3
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)PingPlotter
Likelihood to Recommend
In a small network or a large network, this product can be helpful. It can manage and monitor all devices for you.
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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
  • Different Level of Severity Alerts
  • Get traps and syslogs to evaluate any critical problem.
  • Works great with HP switches.
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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
  • More Cisco switch support such as nexus
  • SNMP walker tool needs a little improvement
  • Fresh look for the Gui
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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
Nothing bad to say about the overall support.
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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
HP IMC is easy to install, implement and configure. HP IMC has good features to monitor different network parameters. HP IMC integration with third party vendor tool for ticketing purpose is easy.
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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
  • HPE IMC is one of several tools we use to to ensure we meet our SLA with our customers.
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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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