We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard 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."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"The ability to view the entire project stack, including the camera, features, and routers, which I believe are the most important or relevant components."
"It can analyze the traffic that it is picking up from what may be a rogue access point, and it is able to identify those and send relevant notifications."
"We like the visibility this solution gives us of the infrastructure."
"The ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"It's easy to use."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"The solution can be expensive."
"The solution has a limited routing table and needs improvement by increasing the numbers as well as providing a summarization for the table."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"The one issue that we have had is that the VPN tunnel would go down unless you worked out with the ISP that you would be using a static IP address on the WAN interface."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
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Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". 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". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SCOM report.
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