We performed a comparison between Cisco Data Center Network Manager 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."
"I like that is easy to work on and straightforward."
"Data Center Network Manager is absolutely stable."
"I like running the scripts. With the help of a Python script, we deployed within the configuration and built up the code."
"Monitoring system provides a clear indication of what's going on in the network."
"The feature I find most valuable, is the stability of the solution."
"After installation, you almost forget that it is working."
"The most valuable feature is the connectivity monitoring."
"Automation of the ILS."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The configuration is too complicated and you have to create templates and use a lot of menus."
"If the customer thinks about using additional solutions, Cisco should make sure they are not left out."
"Data Center Network Manager is a little complex because it includes a lot of hardware to be installed."
"Automation for the RMA process can be added."
"The tool's pricing strategy could be improved to compete more effectively in the market, especially against competitors like Huawei, Aruba, and Juniper."
"We need better performance and reliability."
"The visibility of applications is not great."
"The reporting is not very intuitive and has room for improvement."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"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."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
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Cisco Data Center Network Manager is ranked 27th in Network Monitoring Software with 20 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Cisco Data Center Network Manager is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Data Center Network Manager writes "Provides insight into the network's health data and has an excellent support team". 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". Cisco Data Center Network Manager is most compared with Marvis Virtual Network Assistant, Zabbix and Cisco DNA Center, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Cisco Data Center Network Manager vs. SCOM report.
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