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 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 features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"We can plan changes and replacement of end-of-life products in our environment very well because it's very accurate."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"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 monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"It's easy to use."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated."
"We have had one support issue that's been open for a couple of months, and it is currently open."
"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."
"Needs better integration with all the other products in the Agile suite of tools; anything they could do to make that less complex, would be great."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"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."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
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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