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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    OpenText SiteScope

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AOpenText's SiteScope is an agentless application performance monitoring tool with hybrid support across a variety of systems and vendors. Sitescope also offers automated workflow and incident identification and remediation capabilities, and rapid installation-to-monitoring processes.N/A

    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers application and server monitoring capabilities. SAM allows for self-service for easy setup, 1200+ monitoring templates, and customization options, as well as integrate with other SolarWinds products.N/A
    Pricing
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—SAM pricing starts at $2,995.
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    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    Chose OpenText SiteScope
    As far as the interface goes Solarwinds is much prettier and intuitive but it is also a very busy interface which makes navigation difficult at times. Also setting up alerting under Solarwinds requires you access the desktop of the machine running the application whereas …
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    SolarWinds
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Compared with other application monitoring stacks, Solarwinds SAM is easy to use, deploy, and configure within a few clicks of a mouse.
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Solarwinds has a great solution in the Infrastructure space. Overall, we have been pleased with the usage of Solarwinds. It would be nice to have the ability to do script monitors which would give us a way to replace site scope.
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    Chose SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    SolarWinds is much more intense and configurable than HP System Insight manager but is also more difficult to set up properly than HP System Insight Manager. Its also very solid with any amount of devices while HP System Insight manager has trouble handling the load of 500+ …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    31 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of OpenText SiteScope and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Feature
    OpenText SiteScope
    8.1
    6 Ratings
    6% above category average
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    8.6
    276 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Application monitoring6.16 Ratings8.9266 Ratings
    Database monitoring8.25 Ratings8.4230 Ratings
    Threshold alerts8.96 Ratings8.9271 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities7.94 Ratings8.2215 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.04 Ratings8.2239 Ratings
    Collaboration tools7.34 Ratings7.7148 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications8.76 Ratings7.8256 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.86 Ratings8.5216 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring9.15 Ratings8.8234 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring8.86 Ratings9.8269 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.95 Ratings9.1250 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery6.65 Ratings9.0199 Ratings
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    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score8.2 out of 10
    SolarWinds AppOptics
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Score6.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.9
    (6 ratings)
    8.8
    (278 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (29 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (21 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OpenText SiteScopeSolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    OpenText
    SiteScope is definitely well suited in an HP server environment. It is also well suited for virtual server environments. It is also well suited for those who are happy with email and text based message alerting. It may not be appropriate in other environments where monitoring physical components is critical. Because HP SiteScope does not monitor certain physical components, it does fall short of being able to be a "one stop shop solution" in regard to monitoring. It is not well suited for those looking for logic in how alerts are sent and cascade to other people or groups.
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    SolarWinds
    For monitoring applications that run on Windows hosts on VMware or HyperV virtualization, SolarWindows offers a nice, vertical view of both the loads and the resources. In such an environment, this makes life really good! But if you have something else -- for example, Linux hosts -- you're on your own to some extent. That is, the things it does well, it does very well -- but everything else is much less polished.
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    Pros
    OpenText
    • Alerts can be configured as per business requirement.
    • It can take remedial action, when defined for a particular situation.
    • Severity, priority of tickets which are created upon a trigger can be well defined.
    • The teams which need to be alerted can be configured in the tool itself, in case of any event.
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    SolarWinds
    • Monitor Azure Cloud Severs- We use SolarWinds SAM to monitor Active Directory and DNS on Several DCs published on Azure Cloud.
    • Monitor Hyper V and VMware - SolarWinds SAM monitors applications on both Hyper V and VMware, while also monitoring the physical host machines.
    • It also helps us monitor Warranty expiration for physical servers.
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    Cons
    OpenText
    • Sitescope is particularly used for infrastructure monitoring. Other kinds of monitors cannot be set using HP sitescope.
    • Sitescope cannot have graphs like splunk which is why we have splunk as well which is an additional cost for the company.
    • We can't have a direct regex operations on data inside HP sitescope. We need to have the logs placed as a single log and then do that.
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    SolarWinds
    • Provides basic monitoring/visibility. Visibility into detailed/fine-grained issues best suited for more specialized/expensive solutions.
    • Licensing per monitored application rapidly uses up purchased license count.
    • More out-of-the-box templates or easier setup of monitoring less-common applications would make the solution more appealing given the target audience of the product.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    We are heavily invested in Solarwinds products for a reason. They are generally easy to setup and run with, requiring only some interfacing with support or help articles on rare occasions. They do what we bought them to do and we can't ask for more.
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    Usability
    OpenText
    Very straightforward and easy to use once you get past the short learning curve.
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    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is quite easy to use and super versatile. It allows you to do just about anything you can through premade templates or through scripting. You can use an agent on the servers if you want to, or you can monitor through WMI or SNMP credentials. You can customize thresholds for alerting quickly, and you can configure alerts to be as complex or as simple as you want.
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    Reliability and Availability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    The tool works and monitors items 24x7, it only requires maintenance a little more frequently due to security fixes in the Windows operating system.
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    Performance
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    The graphical interface and the performance of the database leave a little to be desired, they could be better explored.Some functionality and screens do not work well depending on the browser used. The integrations never had any problems or caused crashes in other systems.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
    Can't really answer this. Setup was easy and no support has really been used at this point.
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    SolarWinds
    I think there was only a couple times I had to open a support case for SAM and one time they got multiple engineers on the phone to get a better idea what I was trying to monitor and was able to point me in the best direction to monitor that system.
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    Online Training
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    It was sufficient to read their documentation and watch videos.
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    Implementation Rating
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    Make sure SNMP and WMI are configured ahead of time
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    Alternatives Considered
    OpenText
    SiteScope unified console is a powerful tool for operators to easily detect warnings and alerts grouped by its hierarchical organization with real-time status displaying continuously the whole health map.
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    SolarWinds
    It has been a while since we first purchased SolarWinds, but I looked over several other products that I can't remember now. Many other products tried to scan the network to find computers but given that our computers are located in various places across campus with other computers in our buildings that are not ours that type of network scanning was not what we needed. Other services have extra services that we had no need of and I liked the ability to add custom fields in SolarWinds so we can track the information on each computer that we need to know.
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    Scalability
    OpenText
    No answers on this topic
    SolarWinds
    It is hard to find the recommended SQL setup and convince others that is the way you should configure the server when you set it up
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    Return on Investment
    OpenText
    • Sitescope does exactly what it was purchased for. It may take some time to set it up but once its set up it is a rock solid product.
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    SolarWinds
    • Less time spent investigating causes of issues. We are alerted straight away and can find the root cause of the issue in less time.
    • We have been able to ditch all our previous individual monitoring solutions, none of which integrated with each other for a single solution which fully integrates with each of the different modules to provide a single portal for monitoring and alerting.
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    ScreenShots

    SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor Screenshots

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