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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"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."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"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."
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DX Spectrum is ranked 20th 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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