We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and SCOM 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."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"The fault management is perfect."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The tool is very mature, and its valuable features are monitoring and configuration management."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"I would recommend AI capability built-in so it becomes more predictable and we jump ahead of the curve. This is the one really important feature I would really like to see in any product that provides alarms."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"The price could be improved."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our DX Spectrum vs. SCOM report.
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