We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds Network Device Monitor 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 single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"In terms of general network monitoring features, I find SolarWinds Network Device Monitor very flexible and comfortable to use. The software itself is extremely useful when it comes to monitoring how our data moves between different networks and environments."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is monitoring."
"I rate the product's initial setup process a nine on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is a difficult phase and ten is an easy process."
"The alerts we are getting when we start losing connection access have been helpful."
"This product proactively tells us about issues before the users notice."
"I like the mapping that you could do and the dashboards were very pretty."
"The solution and its interface are elaborate and fully integrate all monitored items for easy analysis and troubleshooting."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"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 solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"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."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The way they are presenting the map of our devices needs to be improved."
"Integration with different tools, such as ServiceNow and Excel, can be improved."
"When an organization's network grows, the complexity of the dashboard becomes an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The reporting feature needs improvement because we are unable to configure reports that were included during initial implementation."
"Although I haven't explored all of the features available, I wouldn't mind if the software were made to be a bit more customizable."
"If everything were in the package so that everything was ready to go out of the box, that would be ideal."
"The security could always be improved."
"SolarWinds Network Device Monitor could improve the features. We don't have the complete model for the database, and the monitoring for the database is up and down. We expect that we could monitor the blocking items on the database but we don't have that feature."
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SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews while SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is ranked 43rd in Network Monitoring Software with 16 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds Network Device Monitor 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 SolarWinds Network Device Monitor writes "An elaborate solution that fully integrates for easy monitoring and troubleshooting". SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics, whereas SolarWinds Network Device Monitor is most compared with FortiMonitor, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), ThousandEyes, Auvik Network Management (ANM) and ScienceLogic. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds Network Device Monitor report.
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