We performed a comparison between SCOM and WhatsUp Gold 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."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"It's easy to use."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"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."
"WhatsUp Gold is very easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"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."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"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."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"You have to invest a few days to become an expert in this solution."
"I would like to see better integration with switches so that you can see what is connected to each port, what the traffic is, and have a network map automatically generated."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"The product is old and not updated."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 35th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WhatsUp Gold writes "If CPU, memory, or disk space is over-utilized, it alerts us immediately via text or email if there is an issue". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and OpenText SiteScope, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our SCOM vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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