We performed a comparison between ManageEngine OpManager and Meraki Dashboard 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 being able to push configurations to multiple devices. If you have the same configurations for all the branches, it's easier to use ManageEngine OpManager and push configurations at once rather than individually pushing them to each device."
"We find the networking aspect of this solution to be the most valuable."
"The application monitoring is the solution's most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the network-related reporting."
"Flexibility in the two view dashboard helps viewers and admins get the information they need about the fetwork in a flash."
"This is a good general monitoring system that has all the features we require and they constantly update with new capabilities."
"The integration with the firewall monitoring, the security monitoring, is great."
"The solution is scalable."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"The ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"It's really user-friendly."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"We've been spending a lot less time on tickets and deployments, so we have more time to do other things."
"The ability to view the entire project stack, including the camera, features, and routers, which I believe are the most important or relevant components."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"OpManager is slow but that just might be the server we have it on. I don't think that's the problem but I don't do the server. But it is slow. When you're interacting with it, it could be more nimble and could be faster."
"The licensing for this solution is not straightforward and should be improved."
"There should be an option to get mobile notifications or SMS mirror notifications for critical issues. That way, when we don't have access to email, we can still receive notifications via our phones."
"This product is little bit slow sometimes. It may be that we need to change the configuration to improve performance."
"ManageEngine OpManager can improve by having better updates for critical issues."
"We get a lot of false alerts."
"The solution is a bit difficult to configure. There are quite a number of configurations and plugins that you must handle early in the process."
"ManageEngine OpManager could improve the default dashboards that are available. We are not able to customize them easily and they do not give us the information we need unless we customize them. You need to have the technical knowledge to be able to do it, the customization should be easier."
"Some features could be added."
"The coverage has been an issue for us."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"It would be helpful to have the ability to create a floor plan based on an existing PDF or JPEG, which is automatically converted into a usable network map."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"We would like to be able to test the health of WAN connections."
"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."
"I think this product could be improved with a CLI for more directives."
ManageEngine OpManager is ranked 15th in Network Monitoring Software with 44 reviews while Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews. ManageEngine OpManager is rated 8.0, while Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of ManageEngine OpManager writes "Helps us monitor all the infrastructure in our company but UI monitoring is not practical". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". ManageEngine OpManager is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and Fortinet FortiSIEM, whereas Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and PRTG Network Monitor. See our ManageEngine OpManager vs. Meraki Dashboard report.
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