We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds NPM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"It's easy to use."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"It did a good job of the collection and then an investigation of the net flow of information for understanding the applications that were being used at certain locations."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the alerts."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"The most valuable feature is the way it monitors the environment, and how user-friendly the console is for the end-user. The interface is also very easy and it captures all the information very well."
"It is scalable."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"The connectivity of the solution is very good."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"It has covered everything, so no improvement is required at their end. The only thing is the price."
"Time: A worldwide deployment can be confusing for dispersed users with non-local times. Each node should have a local time (with summer offset if appropriate) & each user should view & report in their local time."
"If they’re going for a “cover everything” approach, then they need to do so and enable a bit more of the "cover everything approach" within every one of the tools."
"My team has had a lot of issues with support."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
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SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and OpenText SiteScope, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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