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."
"It is a reliable product. It provides a lot of information that is easy to read."
"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 most valuable feature is the single pane of glass that gives you multisite visibility."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"The initial setup process is quite simple."
"The product can scale if you need it to."
"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."
"The dashboard itself is very simplified and easy to navigate."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve integration with non-Cisco platforms."
"They could offer API functionality for Meraki Dashboard. It will help us develop software immediately using available solutions."
"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"The price could be lower because the license for access points is expensive."
"This solution can be quite complicated to configure and manage, unless you have a technical person with specific knowledge working on it."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"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."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
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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