We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum 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."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"It is easy to navigate."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"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."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"Technical support for this product is not so good. It needs improvement."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"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."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
DX Spectrum is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 76 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". 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". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and HPE Intelligent Management Center, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and AppDynamics. See our DX Spectrum vs. SCOM report.
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