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."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"The dashboard itself is very simplified and easy to navigate."
"It's a simple, functional solution."
"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."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"It's really user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"The stability has been great."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"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 technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"Lacks an alert notification when there are IP or DNS issues."
"It's a very complex system. Customers have told me that sometimes there are lots of advanced features that are available and that you can change in the dashboard, but sometimes it's very hard to know what they are."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to create a floor plan based on an existing PDF or JPEG, which is automatically converted into a usable network map."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"Price could be reduced."
"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."
"This solution can be quite complicated to configure and manage, unless you have a technical person with specific knowledge working on it."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The price could be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
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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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