Learn the Top 5 reasons why you might consider SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) over ManageEngine Applications Manager. - Affordable perpetual license - Robust hardware monitoring - 100+ Out-of-the-Box application templates, plus community content exchange for additional templates - Real-time performance statistics - SolarWinds' focus on IT management solutions

1. Author
Christine Bentsen
SolarWinds Server & Application
Monitor (SAM) or ManageEngine
Applications Manager –
Still Undecided?
23rd August 2012
SOLARWINDS SAM OR MANAGEENGINE APPLICATIONS MANAGER
– THE RIGHT CHOICE
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2. Agenda
» Top 5 Reasons - SAM over ME Applications Manager
» SAM Vs. ME Applications Manager Detailed Comparison
» SAM Dashboard
» What the IT Pros say about SolarWinds SAM
» Helpful Resources
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3. Top 5 Reasons to choose SAM over
ManageEngine Applications Manager
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4. SAM & ME Applications Manager
- Detailed Comparison
SolarWinds SAM is provided in a perpetual license and there is no added cost for
additional users.
Affordability ManageEngine Enterprise Applications Monitor Enterprise Version is not a perpetual
license. You will need to pay for it yearly and each administrator costs extra. Additionally,
with ManageEngine you will need to pay more for plug-ins in order to monitor many
applications. Some of the applications that are included with SAM but are an additional
yearly fee with ManageEngine include VMware and IBM® Websphere.
SolarWinds SAM provides comprehensive hardware monitoring for your HP® Proliant®,
Dell® PowerEdge®, IBM® System X®, and VMware® ESXi/ESX® host servers leveraging
SNMP, WMI, CIM, and the VMware API protocols. Some key metrics monitored include:
Robust Machine Make, Machine Model, Machine Serial Number, Array status, Array controller
Hardware status, Power supply status, Fan status, Chassis intrusion status, Chassis temperature
Monitoring and/or status, CPU temperature and/or status, Chassis fan speed and/or status, CPU fan
speed and/or status, Memory module status, Voltage regulator status
ManageEngine only provides very basic hardware statistics, allowing many potential
hardware problems to go undetected
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– THE RIGHT CHOICE
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5. SAM & ME Applications Manager
- Detailed Comparison
SAM provides broad and deep application support with over a hundred out-of-the-box
application templates. An easy –to-use wizard allows for the creation of powerful custom
Application application monitoring templates. The active user community thwack® also offers an
Templates & active content exchange, with many more application templates and integration built
Community Content directly into SAM.
ManageEngine’s out-of-the-box application support is very limited. Based on the number
of applications supported out-of-the box, customers may find themselves spending
considerable time and effort creating custom monitors for their applications.
Real-Time Performance Monitoring is cool feature within SolarWinds SAM that enables
information polling as often as every 5 seconds. This feature allows you to instantly look
Real-Time at the processes running on a machine to determine what might be causing a problem like
Performance
a sudden server spike. You don’t even need to log-in physically or remotely to the
Monitoring
machine, you simply launch RTPE in context from the affected node.
ManageEngine doesn’t have this feature or anything like it. They use standard polling
intervals of minutes for all application monitoring and do not offer any real-time
troubleshooting tools like the Real Time Process Explorer to monitor performance issues in
real-time.
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– THE RIGHT CHOICE
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6. SAM & ME Applications Manager
- Detailed Comparison
SAM’s Expert Templates provide guidance as to what performance counters are important
and what thresholds are optimal for your environment. These recommendations are
based on industry best practices and vendor recommendations. Plus, Expert Templates
also include recommendations on what to do when thresholds are exceeded, and how to
Expert resolve the issue when it occurs. It’s like having your own IT expert monitoring your
Templates environment 24/7.
Manage Engine does not have a similar feature to Expert Templates. When it comes to
optimal thresholds and determining which counters matter for your environment, you are
on your own.
SolarWinds SAM is delivered by a growing, public company that is focused on IT
management. With SolarWinds, our IT customers’ needs will always be our primary focus.
IT Management
Focus
ManageEngine is part of Zoho, a privately-held company with multiple software product
lines with competing priorities
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7. SAM Dashboard
SAM Summary page showing several applications being monitored
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8. SAM Dashboard
100+ built-in templates that leverage WMI,SNMP and scripting technologies
to provide real time data metrics on most critical applications
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9. SAM Dashboard
Historical Hardware
Information
SAM also provides out-of- the-box server hardware monitoring to
view server hardware health and quickly identify any hardware issues
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10. What IT Pros say about SolarWinds SAM
» SAM named Best of TechEd in the Systems Management and
Operations category at Microsoft TechEd North America 2012.
 Awards produced by Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Pro, SharePoint Pro and
Dev Pro
» “With SolarWinds SAM I can keep track of everything in one
place.”
 Steve Borba, Network Security Engineer, Citizens Business Bank
» “Unlike many of the enterprise offerings we had worked with
previously, SAM was not bloated with information and had a
clean, easy-to-use interface. Within a week-and-a-half of playing
with the free trial, we were able to accomplish things with SAM
that we had been trying to do with our previous system for
three years.”
 Jason Krisch - Manager, Technical Services - Carilion Clinic
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11. Helpful Resources
We invite you to learn more about SolarWinds Server &
Application Monitor (SAM)
Watch Video Test Drive Live Demo
Ask Our Community Download 30-day Free Trial
Client Testimonial Client Testimonial
(SAM) Allows Carilion to be Proactive (N)Ode to SAM
Whitepaper
Selecting the Right Server &
Application Monitoring Tool
Click any of the links above
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12. Thank You!
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