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 ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"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."
"The stability has been great."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"The nice thing about SolarWinds is that it's kind of all-in-one. I can manage the status of my networking devices, whether they are up or down, I can see how much traffic is going across an interface, and I can run a report that tells me exactly what that traffic is."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"We don't have any issues with the stability of SolarWinds NPM."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"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."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"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."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"We also had to be attentive to vulnerabilities, because SolarWinds NPM have some issues in that area. We had to work with our security team, so that they could help us check and backup the data, and check what they needed to secure."
"The only real caveat that we have or that I have an issue with is when I go on vacation, it's a little hard for me to go and modify alerts so that I don't get alerted about things when I'm on vacation."
"We decided that we were no longer going to trust that their products have not been capitalized."
"Having more technical and support resources available in Saudi Arabia would be helpful."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"A feature I would ask for is for them to have this solution available for Linux systems instead of Windows."
"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."
"I would like to have a Syslog server module for this product. That would make the solution better."
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 WhatsUp Gold, 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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