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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SolarWinds ipMonitor

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds ipMonitor is a lightweight performance monitoring tool. It enables monitoring from a single console and out-of-the-box visibility, with some automation available.

    $1,570

    installation

    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AADAudit Plus offers real-time monitoring, user and entity behaviour analytics, and change audit reports that helps users keep AD and IT infrastructure secure and compliant. Track all changes to Windows AD objects including users, groups, computers, GPOs, and OUs. Achieve hybrid AD monitoring with a single, correlated view of all the activities happening across both on-premises AD and Azure AD. Monitor every user's logon and logoff activity, including…

    $595

    per year

    Pricing
    SolarWinds ipMonitorManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Editions & Modules
    ipMonitor - 500 Monitors
    $1570
    installation
    ipMonitor - 1000 Monitors
    $2620
    installation
    ipMonitor -2500 Monitors
    $5770
    installation
    Standard
    $595
    per year
    Professional
    $945
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds ipMonitorManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing is dependent on the number of domain controllers and starts at $595/year for the Standard edition, and $945/year for the Professional edition.
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    Community Pulse
    SolarWinds ipMonitorManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    73%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    9 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    49 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    50 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    91%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    46 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    48 Answers
    Features
    SolarWinds ipMonitorManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of SolarWinds ipMonitor and ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Feature
    SolarWinds ipMonitor
    6.7
    24 Ratings
    20% below category average
    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    -
    Ratings
    Automated network device discovery6.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts8.223 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network mapping6.619 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports4.223 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring Tasks
    Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of SolarWinds ipMonitor and ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Feature
    SolarWinds ipMonitor
    -
    Ratings
    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    7.0
    51 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Remote monitoring00 Ratings6.631 Ratings
    Network device monitoring00 Ratings4.321 Ratings
    Multiple Server Monitoring00 Ratings8.640 Ratings
    Multi-device monitoring00 Ratings8.526 Ratings
    Automated alerts and notifications00 Ratings7.145 Ratings
    Management Tasks
    Comparison of Management Tasks features of SolarWinds ipMonitor and ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Feature
    SolarWinds ipMonitor
    -
    Ratings
    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    8.3
    33 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Service configuration management00 Ratings7.028 Ratings
    Software and hardware inventory00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Policy-based automation00 Ratings7.925 Ratings
    Reporting
    Comparison of Reporting features of SolarWinds ipMonitor and ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Feature
    SolarWinds ipMonitor
    -
    Ratings
    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    8.1
    48 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Performance data reports00 Ratings8.037 Ratings
    Customizable reporting00 Ratings7.547 Ratings
    Data visualization00 Ratings8.442 Ratings
    Risk analysis00 Ratings8.436 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of SolarWinds ipMonitor and ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Feature
    SolarWinds ipMonitor
    -
    Ratings
    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    6.4
    45 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Data backup and recovery00 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Antivirus and malware management00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Administrator access control00 Ratings8.145 Ratings
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    Auvik
    Score9.9 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    PingPlotter
    Score9.3 out of 10
    SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Nmap
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds ipMonitorManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    9.5
    (51 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (44 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds ipMonitorManageEngine ADAudit Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds ipMonitor is well suited in situation where customer do not wants to hold the responsibility of underlying monitoring infrastructure management such as Servers, Database, website and their high availability. And of course when you need Network, Servers, Services fault and performance monitoring. When you have specialized network monitoring requirement such as Configuration backup, netflow traffic analysis then this is not the right tool.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    ManageEngine is mostly a "check the box" solution for SIEM systems. We needed something that satisfied our customer and was cost-effective. I would highly rate the system on "worth what paid for". Support is eager to please and prompt. My only issue is that it's mostly based outside the US with helpful, but non-native speakers so it's hard to understand them. I wish they would spring for better help "phone lines" so I'm not dealing with difficult to understand and unclear speakers.
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • Both network devices and servers may be easily located on the network.
    • It notifies the user whenever any network device undergoes a change in status.
    • Powerful reporting capabilities that provide vital data about your network's devices (uptime, space, utilization of resources on your devices)
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • ManageEngine ADAudit Plus changes for user and group management can be looked up in builtin reports
    • You can build your own reports based on almost every logic you can think of
    • You have the ability to create alerts based on logic and filters and sendout custom alerts to email, SMS or other means.
    • First you need to understand the basics of the software, after that the software itself is very helpfull in configuring specific items.
    • I really love the support that ManageEngine is giving the customer, for all questions I use the chat on their website. This is for me the best remote support I ever saw, and I saw a lot in my 20 years of experience in IT.
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • It is a very complete and versatile software, but its price can be somewhat high for small companies.
    • During the analysis of the collected data the process can be somewhat slow, so it takes more time than expected.
    • Its configuration process can be somewhat complex since it requires several configurations so having prior knowledge is helpful.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • In earlier releases there were quite a few bugs and performance issues. These have since been resolved.
    • When integrated with the Log360 Suite, it can be confusing on whether EventLog Analyzer or ADAudit Plus are "managing"/"Ingesting" the data from a given endpoint.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SolarWinds
    I have very few pieces of software, that are specific to IT and IT services, that just work. Honestly, I don't need the support as it never breaks, but I believe in rewarding vendors that make valuable products
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    It works great for everything we need and use. Any issues in the software are pretty easy to resolve with tech support. And they are very responsive to resolving issues. Even ones where a fix/patch are required. At present, the software does everything we need it to for compliance, audit, and account review.
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    Usability
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds ipMonitor is a perfectly decent network mapper and performance metric gatherer, but it is held back by the UI, which can be hard to navigate once you have more than a couple dozen assets in there. It is fairly priced, but it also sometimes takes a really long time before results come in.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    ADAudit with its cloud and on prem install option allows any organization to get in on AD report management. Whether you need to report internally only for for external audit controls its a great tool with flexibility to handle most any user or group report capability. Since this also includes m365 integration it enables IT pros to administer usage, license, cost control and permission access to most anything in Microsoft's portfolio. Its a great tool all around for AD integrated access needs.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    uptime good
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    Performance
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    Integration/overlap between products could be improved
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    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    Although I had not much support ticket with ipMonitor support team but I can share my overall experience with SolarWinds products and support team. I am working with SolarWinds support team since last 7 years and in last 2-3 years I have seen a significant improvement in knowledge documentation which is helping end users to troubleshoot problems by themselves. Apart from this SolarWinds phone call based support is very nice as tickets and emails might take some time but a direct phone call can get your job done quickly comparatively.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The attention to cases or situations with the tool has been exceptional. being able to count on the manufacturer either by mail, call or chat. generate cases directly from the application allows you to have personalized support in order to solve problems that has been able to appear.
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    Online Training
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    knowledgable and prompt response
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    Implementation Rating
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    The remote setup team helped when i needed it and setup weas very straight forward and easy. The advanced setup for an external db and customizations for our latest version AD environment went pretty easy once they found documentation on customization.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    We were trying to evaluate different providers and ipMonitor suited us because we had on-prem and cloud instances and management decided to check the paid tool. The ipMonitor is a very responsive tool and it served the purpose well but as IT is evolving and needs are changing, we discontinued the ipMonitor and shifted to Zabbix due to the customization which was the need at the time.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    In terms of features, ADAudit Plus offers a comprehensive set of features for monitoring and auditing Active Directory, including real-time alerts, detailed reports, and user behavior analytics. The platform also offers support for multiple platforms, including Windows, UNIX, and Linux, as well as integration with other ManageEngine tools.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    updates are effective and system is reliable
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • We currently use an outside service to monitor critical network nodes. We will do away with that service shortly.
    • We no longer have to wait to hear from our users if there is a network device down. We will be proactively alerted and we can begin to remediate immediately helping to limit downtime.
    • After initial setup and some tweaking, it requires little to no time to maintain.
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    ManageEngine, A Div of Zoho Corporation Pvt Ltd
    • Positive impact- instead of paying an external source to do reports manually, ManageEngine has provided this in just a few clicks of a button
    • Positive Impact- Less disruption to staff in gathering data for important occurrences
    • Positive impact- full visibility into real time information , alerts etc.
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    ScreenShots

    SolarWinds ipMonitor Screenshots

    Product screenshotProduct screenshotScreenshot of Easy to navigate GUI interfaceScreenshot of Remediation FunctionalityScreenshot of Network Discovery Wizard

    ManageEngine ADAudit Plus Screenshots

    Screenshot of Active Directory AuditingScreenshot of Track Account LockoutsScreenshot of Logon MonitoringScreenshot of Audit User PrivilegesScreenshot of PCI - DSS Compliance