ManageEngine OpManager vs Wireshark comparison

"Desktop central products feature dashboards that are neat and offer comprehensive information."

"Defining thresholds and other alerting criteria is fairly simple and would not require a lot of training. This is very useful if you are managing a large environment."

"The solution is finely stable."

"The solution's most valuable features are reporting, event notifications, and alert management."

"I liked Network Configuration Manager. They had some pretty decent features there, and they also had pretty good monitoring and alerts."

"The most valuable feature of ManageEngine OpManager makes it easy to monitor all the network alerts on the application."

"The traffic monitoring and the traffic analysis are great."

"Alerting is the biggest asset as we can have real-time failure view and predict failures in some cases."

"Wireshark is a great tool to help network engineers identify network problems like broadcasting, injection, poisoning, etc."

"The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."

"The drill-down available for packet analysis is great. It gives a network security engineer insight into what is going on at the packet level and enables better troubleshooting."

"Being able to dissect email data and figure out what is inside email messages was the most valuable feature. Such a feature is pretty helpful for an ongoing forensic investigation or when there is a potential insider threat that you are trying to investigate. It allows you to see the network activity of the users you are investigating. It also gives you more visibility into your network. It was very easy to set up. There is a lot of information out there on Google and YouTube about how to use it. There is also community support. If you have any trouble, it is pretty easy to find an answer online. You will have to do some digging only if you have a very specific use case."

"It is free, easy to use, getting better with every release."

"Wireshark is a network analytic tool which provides such intelligent information in a network."

"The best part about Wireshark, in my opinion, is its ability to analyze packet capture files."

"The main area for improvement for ManageEngine OpManager is its performance."

"The only problem with it is that the setup isn't very intuitive. I know that they just upgraded the product to make it a little bit easier to use, but compared to some of the other platforms, it is not easy to configure it, set it up, and get it running. However, once you have set it up and got it running, it runs great."

"There needs to be improvements to make the solution capable of supporting more devices, and it would be good to see an option for automatic deployment."

"For the implementation part, I am facing issues when configuring the business view. When I create the business view, I experience problems with the port interface."

"The data provided by the tool is not accurate."

"The pricing of the solution is high. They should work to adjust the pricing model to see if they can help reduce costs."

"The installation of ManageEngine OpManager was difficult mainly due to the business view feature, as many customers in Vietnam want the team to develop more detailed capabilities regarding the business view."

"It is sometimes difficult to manage the user interface. It can get very complicated."

"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."

"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."

"Not always simple to setup and get the filtering right when capturing data."

"The product has been using the same GUI for many years."

"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."

"Wireshark is also used for hacking which is a security breach."

"Whenever we select one of the packets, in terms of the number of bytes, for example, there are three planes, and in the detailed plane, I have to count the number of bytes manually."

"Cannot be used to diagnose any kind of network intrusions and hacking exploits."

"The pricing is moderate."

"ManageEngine OpManager has a three-tier licensing model."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"The solution's pricing is very low compared to other products."

"ManageEngine OpManager is cheaper than SolarWinds."

"Pricing for ManageEngine OpManager depends on the number of nodes you onboard and whatever pricing is reflected on the ManageEngine portal which offers discounts from ten percent to fifteen percent. It purely depends on the sales volume and the negotiation. In my organization, there are about one thousand two hundred nodes which cost around $29,000 per year. There's no additional support fee or maintenance fee from ManageEngine OpManager. Pricing for the solution is highly competitive and I would rate it five out of five. ManageEngine OpManager is one of the most competitive options out there."

"The price of ManageEngine OpManager is reasonable. We have an annual license and the cost comes from how many devices are being monitored. There is not anything extra cost for maintenance and support."

"We had perpetual licenses. The cost was around 36,000 for OPManager, and then you'd have the yearly maintenance fee of 2,000 or 3,000."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"The tool is free."

"We are using a freeware version of this solution, so there are no licence costs involved."

"Wireshark is open source and gives great value and functionality to the network investigation."

"Wireshark is free of charge, and there's no license involved."

"It's free."

"It is an open-source solution."

"This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."