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."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"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."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"The stability has been great."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"The people in technical support are very good."
"It gives us a map of the network setup and one console to see the entire network."
"The initial setup is easy."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"We found that it was easy to operate, and it was simple if anyone has entry-level working experience or even if someone is not experienced."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"It is scalable."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"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."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"It would be good to have high security."
"The SolarWinds notification and alerting configuration could be simplified as it would be easier to find if it was within the NPM web application instead of in a separate client application."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
"Technical support and releases are not particularly reliable."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"I would like to see integration with antivirus or other security endpoint solutions."
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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