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."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The fault management is perfect."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"The biggest issue is our integration right now between UIM and Spectrum is lacking."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"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."
"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."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 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 ThousandEyes, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI. See our DX Spectrum vs. SCOM report.
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