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ManageEngine OpManager vs Plixer Scrutinizer comparison

ManageEngine and Plixer are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. ManageEngine is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.2, while Plixer is ranked #75. ManageEngine holds a 1.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to Plixer’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of ManageEngine users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Plixer users who would recommend it.
ManageEngine OpManager
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82% willing to recommend
Plixer Scrutinizer
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92% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

ManageEngine OpManager and Plixer Scrutinizer compete in the network monitoring solutions category. OpManager is favored for its ease of deployment and integration, while Scrutinizer stands out for in-depth traffic analysis and reporting.

Features: ManageEngine OpManager includes extensive network monitoring, switch configuration reporting, and router configuration backups. It provides real-time alerting and capacity management. Plixer Scrutinizer offers data context enrichment, network traffic insights, and flow visibility, making it excellent for traffic analysis, advanced analytics, and reporting.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest that ManageEngine OpManager needs better stability with upgrades, a more intuitive setup process, and improved backup solutions. Enhancing AI features and support responsiveness would also be beneficial. Plixer Scrutinizer could improve its update process, simplify graphical data presentation, and make third-party tool integration less complex. Both need better scalability and configuration simplification.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both ManageEngine OpManager and Plixer Scrutinizer require on-premises deployment, with OpManager offering public cloud options. OpManager receives mixed feedback on customer support, with noted issues in technical support quality. Plixer Scrutinizer provides clear support but lacks 24/7 availability, impacting deployment efficiency.

Pricing and ROI: ManageEngine OpManager's pricing is competitive, noted for reducing operational overhead despite some users finding it pricey. Its ROI benefits from cost-effectiveness and available discounts. Plixer Scrutinizer uses a device license pricing model, with additional modules impacting costs. Its ROI is favorable due to ease in uptime and quick alert responses, though larger deployments may find it costly.

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Categories and Ranking

ManageEngine OpManager
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
55
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Plixer Scrutinizer
Ranking in Network Monitoring Software
75th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (12th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of ManageEngine OpManager is 1.5%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Plixer Scrutinizer is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
ManageEngine OpManager1.5%
Plixer Scrutinizer0.5%
Other98.0%
Network Monitoring Software
 

Featured Reviews

Charles A - PeerSpot reviewer
Charles A
Deputy Director at Access Healthcare Services Pvt Ltd
Reporting features improve operational efficiency while weekend support needs enhancement
Support is moderate and needs improvement, especially during weekends when technicians perform upgrades. During weekends, they need to provide more support to ensure a smooth transition. There is a call for ManageEngine OpManager to scale better in automation and AI functionality. Although the product stability is good, support enhancement is necessary to enable better planning for upgrades and maintenance activities.
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Ira Mulyanti - PeerSpot reviewer
Ira Mulyanti
Sales Director at ARGA SOLUSI
An affordable product with great integration capabilities
Plixer Core Platform is a valuable feature and a good software. Plixer Scrutinizer uses NetFlow analysis to monitor whatever is there in a network. Price-wise, Plixer Scrutinizer is not an expensive product. Basically, Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that can integrate with any other brand or product in the market, so it is not an area of concern.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature of ManageEngine OpManager is the management of the virtual machine and the host machine."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring alerts. The administrators are immediately notified and can do the required action immediately. This is the feature we value and use the most."
"The detections are fine when they work."
"Flexibility in the two view dashboard helps viewers and admins get the information they need about the fetwork in a flash."
"ManageEngine OpManager has many beneficial features that bring value to enterprises, allowing them to manage from 1,000 to 10,000 devices in one console, with multiple add-ons enhancing its utility, such as Firewall Analyzer, which optimizes rules and displays all rules in the firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the network-related reporting."
"I like being able to push configurations to multiple devices. If you have the same configurations for all the branches, it's easier to use ManageEngine OpManager and push configurations at once rather than individually pushing them to each device."
"It is easy to use and deploy."
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"One of the most valuable features of Plixer Scrutinizer is the reporting, particularly how easy it is to drill down into the reports. Another valuable feature of the solution is its overall visibility. It's great. I also liked Plixer Scrutinizer in terms of deployment time and that it's very simple to set up. Once you get the appliance set up and connected, the customer starts to see results immediately, versus other solutions where that could take a while."
"The reporting and generating troubleshooting reports would be the best feature; our host-to-host conversation reporting."
"Visualization of the network traffic is the most valuable feature. It allows you to drill into information quite quickly."
"The ability to view the status of the top-10 at a glance is helpful. We immediately know which link is over-utilized or heavily used... and it's all in real-time."
"As a network engineer, the ability to identify what traffic on the link is consuming all the bandwidth at any given time, and provide immediate feedback to the business, is the most valuable feature."
"There are other tools out there that will do what Scrutinizer does. But what I have found with Scrutinizer is that it does it very quickly. I've taken 25 million individual data fragments from the different sensors, and it has graphed that and mapped it and presented a picture within 30 seconds. It has a very efficient database algorithm that I am really impressed with."
"Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features."
"It helps us determine what is going on with our Internet and who is hogging it all up. If we get a real high throughput or a throughput that's going over and getting dropped fairly quickly, we can tell who (or what device) is consuming that traffic."
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Cons

"There should be an option to get mobile notifications or SMS mirror notifications for critical issues. That way, when we don't have access to email, we can still receive notifications via our phones."
"They should add more features to URL monitoring."
"Support is moderate and needs improvement, especially during weekends when technicians perform upgrades."
"It is sometimes difficult to manage the user interface. It can get very complicated."
"If you have a ton of devices, it might slow down a bit."
"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 like to see more capabilities and specific profiles built for the manufacturing sector."
"ManageEngine OpManager could improve the default dashboards that are available. We are not able to customize them easily and they do not give us the information we need unless we customize them. You need to have the technical knowledge to be able to do it, the customization should be easier."
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"There is room for improvement around the data that they have on the website about solutions... they should have more templated solutions on their website. Going out and identifying how to do RTP performance with a Cisco router, or how to do application response times in an Arrista data center deployment was where most of the work was... They should spend some more time documenting solutions and putting together white papers."
"I wish the reporting side was easier to work with, but it does a decent job. I also wish the reporting side was a little more intuitive or they offered more reporting examples."
"In Plixer Scrutinizer, scalability is an area with minor concerns where improvements are required."
"It would be useful if there was a way to back up the configuration information. E.g., if you wanted to deploy a new instance or disaster recovery, you could quite easily deploy and restore the config, as opposed to having to restore all the NetFlow data. If there was just a button that said "backup config information", that would be good."
"We couldn't get it set up properly."
"There was a price lift because previously the product was privately owned, and now there is some external capital in the organization, so pricing could be lower, though, for Plixer Scrutinizer, there is almost no competition at this price point."
"For updating the Scrutinizer platform, when we have the actual data, it never happens in one day. Every time we have the data, we are obliged to install a new server in order to integrate the old data, and every time it has a problem. Most of the time, we were obliged to scrap all the data because we couldn't transfer it to the new server. So, it would be very good if they could improve this part."
"From what I understand it is that the solution is not very scalable in a high volume traffic environment with a large number of flows."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"ManageEngine OpManager has a three-tier licensing model."
"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 licensing costs depend on the number of devices and accounts that are being monitored by the solution."
"The price for ManageEngine OpManager is average."
"In terms of pricing, I would rate it a two out of five. It was expensive."
"It is not really expensive; it is nominal licensing."
"The initial cost is low and the add-ons are reasonable."
"The solution is highly affordable"
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"There are no extra costs. It's about $8,000 a year. The bang for the buck (cost) is definitely a plus."
"Currently, the license for Plixer Scrutinizer is subscription-based and at a yearly fee. The price would depend on the amount of traffic you pull in. For example, there are several blocks from a 10K flow, a 40K flow, and a 100K flow, and based on the number of devices that you receive the flows from, that's the license, and it is not a per-interface pricing model, so that is a very strong, very competitive pricing feature of Plixer Scrutinizer. Licensing for the product is also not based on the number of storage, compared to some competing products that are priced based on the amount of storage you need, particularly based on the retention and the amount of data. Plixer Scrutinizer licensing is based on the device, and it's more in the direction of $10,000 because, with just $1,000, you don't have anything."
"We pay our one-off cost for the licenses, per device, in blocks of 50. And then we pay an annual maintenance fee of about $15,000 Australian, which is, at this point in time, about $9,000 US, for those 250 devices. The upfront costs for the 250-license use, were about $50,000 Australian, which is about $32,000 US."
"Our entire solution, amortized over five years, is in the vicinity of $40,000 to $50,000 a year."
"We just renewed. The pricing is 5,000 euro per year. This is the final price. All tax (20 percent) is included."
"Compared to some of the other tools we have, it's incredibly reasonably priced."
"We have increased the license over time. We have added more licenses as the network has grown."
"We recently bought a license upgrade, so we will integrate more exporters. We upgraded from a 25 exporter license to a 50 exporter license. Therefore, there will be more flows, and this will be an extension. I don't know when we will purchase a faster server, because the server that we have is quite new."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
6%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise27
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Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ManageEngine OpManager?
The product provides intensive reports.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ManageEngine OpManager?
The cost is quite high-end for ManageEngine OpManager, especially in our very price-sensitive market here in Sri Lanka.
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What needs improvement with ManageEngine OpManager?
The main drawback is there is less documentation available, both public documentation and partner-available documentation. The learning materials are very limited, and there is also a limitation of...
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Also Known As

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Overview

ManageEngine OpManager is a network, server, and virtualization monitoring software that helps SMEs, large enterprises and service providers manage their data centers and IT infrastructure efficiently and cost effectively. Automated workflows, intelligent alerting engines, configurable discovery rules, and extendable templates enable IT teams to setup a 24x7 monitoring system within hours of installation.

ManageEngine

The Scrutinizer incident response system leverages network traffic analytics to provide active monitoring, visualization, and reporting of network and security incidents. The system quickly delivers the rich forensic data needed by IT professionals to support fast and efficient incident response.

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Sample Customers

Bonita, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, Galaxy, Fiserv Credit Union Division, Universitas 21 Global, ERP Suites LLC
Oxford Networks, Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, UltiSat, Wipro, West Aurora School District 129, SUNY Geneseo College, Bloomington Public Schools, First National Bank of Pennsylvania, Kitsap Credit Union, Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Houston Texas, Carilion Clinic, Banner Health, IDEXX Laboratories, Phibro Animal Health Corporation, Goodwill Industries, Parmalat, Armstrong Coal Company, Flybe, James Walker
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