We performed a comparison between Accedian Skylight 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 ability to measure performance end-to-end across the cloud data center allows us to take corrective action to keep our channels online."
"I think the analytics features are okay. My customer also likes the interface, the GUI, because it's easy to operate."
"Capturing traffic [is very interesting]. Currently, with our configuration, we don't capture the payload of the packets, just the header. But when we want the body, the payload of the packets, we can do a PCAP, and then analyze it within Wireshark."
"The performance of Accedian Skylight is better than other vendors."
"It is about finding operational problems. When sites go down, we try to determine who is at fault. While there is not much finger-pointing, the solution is just trying to analyse when there is an outage and where do we start looking to fix it. The very nature of why organization chooses to use the solution is to accelerate the meantime to resolution and find where problems lie to get them rectified as quickly as possible."
"The response times, with the performance, are really interesting too, where you can see the packet loss."
"I always have the Skylight dashboard on one of my screens... Now you can create your own dashboard, specific to an application, specific to a server, or to something else."
"What I like most about Accedian Skylight is that it's a UI application, so using it is easy. I also like that the support for Accedian Skylight is helpful."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"It's easy to use."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It needs the possibility to export data because it is not easy to see larger data sets, e.g., for one month. It would be interesting to export data into a PDF or dashboard to keep a history of the situation."
"Because of the policies in Vietnam, we cannot connect the system to the Accedian cloud. It would be good if Accedian could provide a local cloud. In the next release, I would like them to focus on improving and adding more reporting features. This will help the operations teams."
"If you want a new version, you go to the website. The hardest part is finding the link, where is that .bin file? Sometimes it's pretty hidden in a document... it's hidden in the release notes or in another file somewhere. And it's usually not on the first page either."
"The UI interface of Accedian Skylight could improve."
"This solution is expensive compared to some others."
"Some of the Skylight applications are a little newer, and they're still moving through initial revs. There are certain bugs, but nothing is insurmountable... It will just take a little bit of time for their user interface to get a little bit better."
"For the PVX, they are in the process of getting the results to export to cloud and SaaS for analytics. They told me that this will happen later this year. Right now, for the most part, I create that data myself."
"I would like to see some improvements in parts of their synthetic transactions, which includes all the latency, jitter, and throughput. I would like to see some Layer 7 analytics in there. I want to be able to do a DNS request, HTTP GET request, or even SIP call point-to-point or via registration."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
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Accedian Skylight is ranked 18th in Network Monitoring Software with 5 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews. Accedian Skylight is rated 9.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Accedian Skylight writes "Enables us to find problems with services offered by large telcos and right down to every network component". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "We can monitor all the VMs in our environment and access full insight reports for all the VMs, but the solution is not stable". Accedian Skylight is most compared with ThousandEyes, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and Dynatrace, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and Nagios XI. See our Accedian Skylight vs. SCOM report.
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