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."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"There is no need to swap the hardware at all the locations, and importing the APs into the Dashboard was a simple and quick process."
"The most valuable feature is ease of use."
"It is a reliable product. It provides a lot of information that is easy to read."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"What I love most about the Meraki Dashboard are its user-friendly features."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"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."
"The stability has been great."
"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."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The tool is useful for managing devices and monitoring their current state, but it falls short in troubleshooting network issues, particularly with access points. It does not provide a complete understanding of the root causes of the issues. As a result, network engineers have had to use additional tools to complement it and conduct assessments. The only way to improve the tool would be to enhance its capability to identify and resolve network issues effectively."
"I am concerned about the fact that once your licensing expires the devices stop working and become a brick."
"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"Some features could be added."
"One area that could use improvement in the Meraki Dashboard is user-friendliness when navigating to port configurations."
"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address. If you're granting access, you need to log in by using the IP address. If your administrator's IP address is not a fixed IP address and it has changed, you might need to update the changed IP address in the interface. For this, you need to log in to the interface to update the IP address. This issue might not have so much to do with Meraki interface."
"The coverage has been an issue for us."
"I would like to see an alert event feature to monitor what users are downloading and how to block some applications."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"The price could be improved."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
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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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