We performed a comparison between Ixia Hawkeye 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."
"The ease of setup is the most valuable aspect of this solution. It's easy to set up and run tests."
"The most valuable feature is the deployment because it's very easy to deploy real flow through the network."
"Our customer was happiest with the price of this product."
"It empowers network administrators to access specialized and detailed views for specific tests, including video streaming and performance related to specific applications like video games."
"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 of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"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 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."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"You can't delete more than one thing at a time. It would be great to be able to highlight three out of five things and delete them, whether it's a test or an actual report."
"The customization of tests and even the results can be improved."
"Ixia has one flaw, which is that they do not print the license code on the paper licenses that are shipped to the customers."
"Improvements in network performance are essential."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
Ixia Hawkeye is ranked 53rd in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. Ixia Hawkeye is rated 9.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Ixia Hawkeye writes "A valuable tool for optimizing network performance and security with comprehensive network monitoring capabilities, user-friendly interface, and flexibility for scripting". 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". Ixia Hawkeye is most compared with ThousandEyes, Gigamon Deep Observability Pipeline, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and SolarWinds NPM, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI. See our Ixia Hawkeye vs. SCOM report.
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