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."
"It's a simple, functional solution."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"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 has improved my organization in the way that we've got a much better wireless coverage than we had before, and secondly, we have the visibility of all the users."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"There is no need to swap the hardware at all the locations, and importing the APs into the Dashboard was a simple and quick process."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"We would like to be able to test the health of WAN connections."
"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."
"If I am a user and I have a seat on the fourth floor, if I move across the building, the system should be able to track me and should be able to figure out my whereabouts or my position within the building if I'm connected to the wireless. That would make the administrator's life easier in terms of reachability."
"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."
"The product is missing a VPN and it is a major issue when it comes to deployment."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
"It would be nicer if the dashboard was lighter."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"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."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
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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 ManageEngine OpManager. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SCOM report.
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