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."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"This is a good, stable network monitoring solution for devices."
"Auto scanning is most valuable. It looks for rogue devices on your network."
"I use it on premises to monitor my network database. We monitor the link up/down and use the SNMP traps as well."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of resources."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The most valuable feature of WhatsUp Gold is NetFlow and the virtualized maps."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"The price could be improved."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"The initial setup of WhatsUp Gold is a medium range of difficulty levels. However, if it is your first time it could be difficult."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"The technical support does not bother to respond."
"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."
"The point system is not clear and clarity around this would improve our understanding of the system."
"Importing the maps and being able to customize them could be easier."
"One of the biggest things that made us start to look at another product is we're not able to have an end to end monitoring from a user perspective throughout the system and back to the user. All the monitoring is from inside out, we need something that also can give us from outside in."
"WhatsUp Gold should work on real-time monitoring and configuration management. If they succeed in doing this, the solution will cover all the network troubleshooting aspects and will be a benefit."
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SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 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 SolarWinds NPM, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with Grafana, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our SCOM vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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