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 most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"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 solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"It combines and presents information from many different sources, giving a corporate-wide vision on a single pane of glass."
"Provides a good level of tools and covers essential components."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The solution is easy to install and it takes a couple of hours."
"The ability to quickly identify downtime is the most valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"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."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"In terms of scalability, there is room for improvement. When you start monitoring, if you have so many interfaces and you're trying to monitor them at a faster interval, or a shorter interval, you get to a point where you need to request another node."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"The solution is not always good with new features, so it's take a long time."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve by adding the deepest inspection, performance networking, and IP address discovery."
"The solution could be more secure."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
"The tool can only monitor up to 1000 instances in a single SolarWinds console. Customers may have over 1000 instances. Hence, it needs to support a minimum of 1500 instances. It should also improve support."
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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