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 does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"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."
"It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing."
"The product’s stability and robustness are valuable."
"I have found the cross analysis feature to be the most valuable."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The integration point."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"I would like to see CA move Spectrum, Performance Manager, and some of their other tools moved to a SaaS based model. You see a lot of other manufacturers which are moving toward SaaS based models."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"There should be better integration with other Broadcom products, like network performance manager. Currently, for every part of a product, you need a separate server environment. You have something for Spectrum, you have something for network performance, and you have something for NetFlow. There are a lot of islands and server farms with different technologies. They should be redeveloped to get one platform for all."
"It doesn’t give you performance metrics: You need CA eHealth for this."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"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."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
DX Spectrum is ranked 14th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 76 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 HPE Intelligent Management Center, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and AppDynamics. See our DX Spectrum vs. SCOM report.
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