We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard 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."
"We like how Meraki Dashboard lets you manage all the devices in a single pane of glass. The dashboard is intuitive and easy to use. They are constantly updating the functionality. Switches from other vendors have the same features for the life of the device, but Meraki is always improving."
"The ease-of-use and the analytics are really effective tools."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"The ability to view the entire project stack, including the camera, features, and routers, which I believe are the most important or relevant components."
"It's a simple, functional solution."
"We've been spending a lot less time on tickets and deployments, so we have more time to do other things."
"The ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and technically very complete. I can configure, do advanced troubleshooting in the dashboard, and reboot access points remotely."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"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 stability has been great."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"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."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The product is missing a VPN and it is a major issue when it comes to deployment."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"You can't really clone or replicate a device, that sort of feature would be useful. You can clone the site but you cannot clone the device."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"I am concerned about the fact that once your licensing expires the devices stop working and become a brick."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"The pricing for this solution needs to be improved."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". 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". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SCOM report.
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