We performed a comparison between NetCrunch and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"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."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"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."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
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NetCrunch is ranked 76th in Network Monitoring Software while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. NetCrunch is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of NetCrunch writes "A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better". 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". NetCrunch is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor and Fortinet FortiSIEM, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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