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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"The hardware of Meraki is very good quality."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and technically very complete. I can configure, do advanced troubleshooting in the dashboard, and reboot access points remotely."
"There are some whitelist blacklist capabilities in the MX dashboard, which is very helpful."
"It's a scalable solution."
"I would say the ease of use is the most valuable feature. It's very easy to set up and get up and running."
"We like the visibility this solution gives us of the infrastructure."
"I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
"It's easy to use."
"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."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"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."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to receive decent notification alerts regarding the license's expiry. Or any help on correcting or optimizing licenses, because in certain circumstances you can add a license but it's the wrong licensing. However, the Dashboard adds the license in some way, and you do not utilize it. You can simply extend the license's expiration date."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
"An area for improvement in Meraki Dashboard is licensing management because it's a little complex. Product licensing can be made a little bit easier through license concurrency and a more straightforward approach to applying the license to products and services."
"The price could be lower because the license for access points is expensive."
"I think this product could be improved with a CLI for more directives."
"Not a lot of training is available."
"The pricing for this solution needs to be improved."
"The solution has a limited routing table and needs improvement by increasing the numbers as well as providing a summarization for the table."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"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."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"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."
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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