We performed a comparison between Broadcom Network Flow Analysis 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 an overall stable solution."
"This solution has helped our organization by allowing us to have visibility. We deal with cybersecurity, so visibility is very important."
"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."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"Currently, Broadcom Network Flow Analysis does not support high-availability solutions, making it an area that needs improvement."
"I would like to see more security features, like a lost protection package."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
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Broadcom Network Flow Analysis is ranked 65th in Network Monitoring Software with 6 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Broadcom Network Flow Analysis is rated 8.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Broadcom Network Flow Analysis writes "A stable tool that helps identify the complete flow analysis in a network". 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". Broadcom Network Flow Analysis is most compared with WatchTower Security Management App and Wireshark, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI. See our Broadcom Network Flow Analysis vs. SCOM report.
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