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."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"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 solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"It's a very good tool and a very stable tool."
"As we look to add more servers to our virtual environment and to understand the impact, the solution allows us to dig into the historical charts related to capacity planning."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"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."
"Their support team is efficient, and it is easy to set up."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds added some technical protocols like Modbus. The market needs a simple solution for monitoring a technical device."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"If they could combine everything into one product, that would be very helpful."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
"The solution's network discovery and node addition processes need more work."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
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 OpenText SiteScope, 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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