We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum 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."
"Spectrum is very useful for us, because the product lets us monitor and control all the various components of our infrastructure that support our business from an IT perspective."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it."
"The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"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 most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". 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". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI. See our DX Spectrum vs. SCOM report.
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