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."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units."
"Scalable and stable network monitoring tool with a simple setup."
"The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The stability has been great."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"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."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
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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