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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable features are the ease of use and a single-pane-of-glass that allows us to identify issues across the entire network from one dashboard."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"We like the visibility this solution gives us of the infrastructure."
"It has improved my organization in the way that we've got a much better wireless coverage than we had before, and secondly, we have the visibility of all the users."
"The ease-of-use and the analytics are really effective tools."
"Easy to configure with great troubleshooting feature."
"The product can scale if you need it to."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"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's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"It is not appropriate for large, enterprise businesses."
"What we would like from the IT perspective is a lot more granular control, more visibility into the packets, into the routing, and things of that nature."
"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."
"You can't really clone or replicate a device, that sort of feature would be useful. You can clone the site but you cannot clone the device."
"The one issue that we have had is that the VPN tunnel would go down unless you worked out with the ISP that you would be using a static IP address on the WAN interface."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"The pricing for this solution needs to be improved."
"Not a lot of training is available."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 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 SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud, Cisco DNA Center and Zabbix, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SCOM report.
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