ManageEngine OpManager Reviews

We primarily use the solution to monitor devices. It has the ability to monitor uptime and performance.

The detections, when they work right, are helpful. 

The detections are fine when they work. 

It is not doing a good job of monitoring items such as uptime and performance. 

We get a lot of false alerts.

It needs better reliability. 

I've used the solution for five to six years. 

The customer service is not very good. I find it to be awful. 

There are language barriers, and there are windows of support. You've got to pick when they're available. They're not actually available when you need them.

We've had to redeploy it a couple of times. I was involved in the redeployments due to how bad it was.

It's a bit complex to set up. There are too many customizations that are difficult to get around. 

I'd rate the ease of implementation two out of ten.

We have not witnessed any ROI at this time. 

It is a bit pricey. I'd rate the solution's affordability four out of ten. 

I'm currently looking at other options that might be available as I do not like this particular product.

We are using the current version of the solution. 

I'd advise new users to be prepared to work for results. 

This is not a solution I would recommend. I'd rate the product four out of five overall. 

We primarily use the solution for monitoring servers, networks, and security.

We run weekly and monthly reports to provide exceptions. And yeah, it's helped our organization remediate problems proactively.

The integration with the firewall monitoring, the security monitoring, is great.

The setup process is simple. 

It is scalable. 

It is stable and reliable. 

Nothing at this stage needs to be improved. 

The pricing is quite high. In terms of the value, it is expensive.

We had quite a few challenges with customizing many of the monitors. Monitor customization was not that easy. It'd take quite a bit of work.

We had some stability issues at the outset that have since been resolved.

I've been using the solution for two years. 

It was very unstable to start with for about seven months. That said, it was determined that was a memory-related problem. After the memory-related problem was resolved, it became more stable.

The solution can scale well. 

We have 15 people on the solution currently.

We've dealt with support in the past, and they were helpful and responsive.

We had a few challenges where issues went backward and forward a few times. We explained the problem, yet they wouldn't address their problem directly. They would move around the problem. That went on over a period of a month. It took a long time to resolve the problem since it wasn't understood exactly where the issue was.

Positive

I also use SolarWinds. 

We used to use WhatsApp Gold. We switched from that based on the look and feel of the product. The customer preferred the look and feel of ManageEngine to WhatsApp Gold.

In terms of deployment, it's a fairly straightforward initial discovery process.

We had so many modules, including the firewall monitor, et cetera. It was deployed over several months. It took about three months.

It is not difficult to maintain the solution. 

We used third parties and integrators during the installation process.

It is a pricey solution. However, I don't directly deal with pricing. 

We did not evaluate other options before moving to this product. 

I'm not sure which version of the solution we're using. It's likely the latest update. 

Based on the high cost, I'd rate the solution six out of ten. 

I don't know if I would recommend it. I would be at 50-50 on recommending it. If you're looking for specific features, then I would recommend it. However, I work with a lot of monitoring products, including SolarWinds and WhatsApp Gold, and I would say your functionality and value would be about 50%. It really depends on what you want to use it for. If I were to use it as straight monitoring, then just note up and down, I would say there are much cheaper options. If you want to use some of the functionality with the firewall analyzer, and NetFlow integration, then it might be a bit more valuable to you. Still, as an overall product, you'd probably prefer SolarWinds over ManageEngine.

For us, it's taken a long time to try to get the stability of the product. Now that we've got stability, it's still taking a long time to get the level of reporting out that we require. It's just slow progress around resolving problems, and maybe that's an integrated problem. I'm not sure. The integrator says that some of it is a vendor-related problem. I see value in certain areas, however, overall, there are better solutions.

We use this solution for monitoring across applications, network performance, databases, and operating system performance.

We find the networking aspect of this solution to be the most valuable.

We would like the solution's customize and build functionality to be more user-friendly.

We have been using this solution for a year.

This is a stable product, however, it does tend to experience security vulnerability, particularly within the database module.

We have found this solution to be pretty scalable.

The support for this solution needs to be improved significantly, to the point where we will no longer be using some of the available products because we cannot get the required support for them. 

The frontline support doesn't understand the solution they are working with, and it can take months for an issue to be resolved. 

Neutral

The setup for this solution is fairly challenging; it is easy to download and deploy, but complicated to configure and customize.

We implemented the solution in-house, with support from the vendor technician team.

The licenses for this product depend on the number of devices you want to implement it on within your infrastructure. For example, if we want to monitor applications and IP staff, they will count how many applications we wish to monitor.  The prices are then driven by the category of asset, such as network devices, operating systems, etc.

I would suggest that organizations first understand their needs and requirements, understand what they really wish to monitor, and take some time to test the product before they start to implement it into their environment. If the environment is very complex, or very large then this may not be the right solution.

However, once this product is tailored and organized according to their needs, then it is very stable and reliable.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

I primarily use ManageEngine OpManager to monitor servers and network devices. 

We use the NetFlow add-on.

Some of the useful features are NetFlow and analytics.

I would like to see more enhancements made to the product. This would be better because compared to other products, the vendor is very slow at enhancing the solution.

I have been using ManageEngine OpManager for approximately two years.

In terms of stability and performance, it's fine.

This is a scalable product. We have approximately 500 users in the company.

We don't expect our usage of it to increase.

We have been in contact with technical support and are satisfied with the speed of their answers.

The initial setup is easy to do.

It took approximately two months to install and configure everything.

The initial installation has to be done by the vendor but afterward, you can do the configuration yourself. Two people are required for deployment.

The licensing is on a yearly basis and the pricing is on the cheaper side.

This is a product that I can recommend to others.

I would rate this solution a six out of ten.

We use the product as a network monitoring system. We have ten people who are using the system from the admin and end-user level. The platform is used daily and we are looking at extending it to other areas of the business to do different types of monitoring. We have dashboards that we put up that we leverage off and we want to get more systems incorporated.

OpManager allows us to customize the views better than previous solutions that we were using. This helps us target exactly what information gets to the people who need to know it.

The most valuable feature so far is the net-flow analyzer, which works exceptionally well. We have only just started playing around with the apps monitoring portion, but this seems like it will provide value as well. Beyond that, the ops manager portion, the monitoring in general, and the dashboards are all really excellent. The entire solution is very user-friendly. As the IT Manager, I don't have too much time to go investigate how things are running on the system. This is a solution to that problem.

The for the areas that can use improvement, I would say furthering the abilities of dashboard customization and enabling workflows into other systems. I think we could get much more out of the solution with greater flexibility. If we could customize access further and allow people to enhance role-based access, it would keep people focused on their tasks and the specific things they need to know. I think that is the only other thing I would like to see in the system. Now there are only two views: an admin role or a view role. Roles are fixed in the extremes and there is a middle ground that isn't served by either.

When you look at the price of the system, it is exceptional and a real value for money. However, it lacks strong local support. I can't blame the company because it is a new product, but that is one addition that would be very useful.

The system is quite stable. Since we have had it implemented, I have not had a single day of downtime on the system. Even when it comes to upgrades there was no downtime. These guys do an excellent job of testing enhancements and upgrades, so it is seamless to deploy new versions.

I think the product is extremely scalable. We have actually gone from two thousand nodes up to five thousand nodes and there was no issue in scaling up. We were simultaneously looking at the HA solution at the time and even when upgrading two things at the same time, there was no downtime for the system. 

In South Africa, the OpManager system is fairly new. With the current support structures in place, the support team is exceptionally helpful and they try to go the extra mile. However, I don't think they are as experienced with all the components of the system as the users would hope, so it makes installations a little bit difficult. They do escalate to external teams when it is necessary and warranted and we do get assistance when the local team cannot handle a problem. So from that perspective, I think they do an extremely good job in making sure that we are functional and that we have the contracted level of support. I do not think it is an entirely personal preference to assume that the local vendors would have a bit more knowledge about the products in order to support us properly and efficiently.

Regardless of any and all issues, support normally responds promptly (within a couple of hours). It is simply not desirable that the actual issues can take a few days to get resolved.

We previously used the Microsoft SCOM platform. The product was not very easy to configure. It is tedious and you need a lot of experience to get it done. That difficulty was the reason we moved away from it as a solution.

Installation was pretty straightforward. We did get assistance from the team locally assigned to assist us, but the majority of the work was done within our internal IT team.

We did initiate the implementation ourselves but we were, at times, assisted by our assigned team.

We had a return on investment almost immediately in that a consistent up-time has been easier to achieve. Alerts come through faster. Our staff has the ability to look at the dashboards and put things in place to make sure we don't have outages of the same sort. Previously on SCOM, it wasn't easy to manage and monitor the system. If you had to understand what an alert meant, it was very difficult. Now, the operator can click on the alert and immediately get details of the problem. Then they can drill down to get a solution very quickly.

As far as cost, it was around six hundred thousand rands ($40,500) for the year, for the renewals. That's the total cost for a four thousand node system including support and maintenance. If there is any additional development required, then that comes at an additional cost. We have not really customized too much. The one change we requested was added to the subsequent release. They built the resolution specifically for us and it didn't cost us anything and went out to all users who may have been experiencing similar issues.

I would rate the product an eight out of ten. The reason for that is that it is an exceptional value for the money. It may not be the absolute best, but it is certainly better than most solutions and the price differential is significant.

It is a good idea to get both the application monitoring package and the Ops Manager. They compliment each other, so I would suggest buying both. 

With regards to the implementation, I would suggest making use of an implementer even though it is an easy system to implement. An implementer will have the experience to do the implementation according to standards and proper architecture. This will save you from errors, speed the implementation, and keep you from wasting time doing things over again. We did the original implementation ourselves and then we had to re-build and do things all over again because we didn't have the knowledge of the package. It did work eventually, but it would have worked much more efficiently if done correctly the first time.

We use the solution to monitor links. It also helps us to track servers and monitor logs. 

We encounter challenges in monitoring cloud services. I would also appreciate it if there was someone available to walk you through the documentation. 

I would rate the product's stability a seven point five out of ten. 

The solution is scalable. 

The product's response is slow. 

The tool's setup is straightforward. 

The solution's licensing costs are yearly and based on the number of applications. 

I would rate the product a seven out of ten. 

The most valuable features of this product would be the ability to define thresholds, monitor, and alarm. Having the ability to set multiple severities per monitor allows for a proactive environment.

OpManager was able to provide graphs associating trending for disk growth and other hardware/network utilization.

The new user interface of 12.x is a major change from the legacy UI of 11.x and Fluid UI. The UI changes look nice and 12.x is geared towards mobility, but finding its settings can be challenging. I have found many inconsistencies between switching back and forth between the the legacy UI and Fluid UI as far as settings changing.

Also, every time I perform a version upgrade, something breaks.

I have also stumbled across many bugs, leading me to think that the quality control is lacking.

There is a big lack of documentation and feature requests rarely happen.

The OpManager community is very sparse on the ME forums as well.

A simpler backup solution would be nice. Especially one that doesn't require downtime. I had to script my own daily scheduled task which would run the backup script and rename the file by date and dump it into a folder that is backed up to tape. Their ADSelfService Plus product is great with backups and there is obviously a disconnect between teams if they can't share code to make backups easier.

I have used this solution for approximately five years.

Stability issues were rare, but did happen. They were usually remediated quickly by ME OpManager support.

My experience with scaling OpManager is minimal. However, when scaling out a VM environment, I have experienced issues requiring the VM hosts to be rediscovered, VMs removed from OpManager and re-discovered, and in some cases an entire VM host removed and re-added.

Tech support was good, however with their California time zone, not having 24/7 coverage is very disappointing, especially since any major changes were outside of normal business hours.

I have used Nagios, Cacti, Zabbix, OpenNMS, and PRTG. I worked for a company which had an instance of OpManager (9.x). It just worked and I fell in love with the workflow. Adding devices was a breeze and the trend data was simple to pull up and analyze, not to mention reporting features.

The initial setup of OpManager is very easy and straightforward. Unlike some competitors, especially on the Linux side, the wizard will guide you through your install and you'll be up and running in minutes. OpManager has a self-contained web server and SQL server that make life easy.

Pricing can be a bit high, but if you take advantage of the expertise of the developers and support like I did, it'll pay for itself. Also, if you have other ManageEngine products, they will provide additional discounts.

I did evaluate Nagios and Cacti (the combination), but being the only Linux guru at the time, no one was really on board with the maintenance and support for the Open Source solutions.

Start out with the latest version and keep the product up-to-date. Most of my issues have stemmed from starting as a 10.x install and slowly upgrading to the latest version.

We use OpManager for monitoring our network devices.

Some of the most valuable features are the accessibility of the solution and the fact that it is simpler than other products. For example, discovering devices in the network is very simple, making it user-friendly. 

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. 

I would like to see MDM for our VCM in this solution.

My company has been using this solution since 2015.

I use this product daily, and the stability is very good and reliable. 

This solution is very scalable. 

The ManageEngine technical support team is very available. 

Positive

The setup is not complex. It's really simple and there is documentation available. I would rate my initial setup experience as a five out of five.

We handled the deployment in-house. It took about five days, but much of that was prep time. 

I would tell someone considering this solution that the ManageEngine support team is very available and helpful, there is plenty of documentation, and the price compared to other products is very affordable.

I would rate this solution as a ten out of ten.