We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management 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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"It gives an alarm when there's something going on, not just when there's an expected spike that happens every night on a server."
"MultiWAN and Balance service"
"Latest version of tool comes integrated with Jaspersoft reporting solution, giving excellent reports."
"This solution allows us to have an overview of the infrastructure and identify areas where the performance isn't optimal, or where upgrades could be carried out."
"The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you."
"Great customized dashboards and drill down reports with auto serve analytics."
"The monitoring of the applications to let our business know when things are performing and that they're up and available."
"Another division handed us the opportunity to monitor their solutions as written, and UIM was very useful for that."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."
"How we can get more native information from CA's solutions."
"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."
"We would like to see automatic network topology."
"We have experienced challenges with finding a mechanism to deploy the agents, but it's only on the first deployment so it's not a big issue."
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"We had to do some work to make what was more of a business class solution work at an enterprise level."
"We want to see more investment in the UI and the dashboard."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 38th in Network Monitoring Software with 120 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". 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 Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, ManageEngine OpManager, Nagios XI and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. SCOM report.
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