We performed a comparison between SCOM and SolarWinds NPM 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 feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"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."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"It is very extensible with 'SWQL' and APIs to where we are beginning to integrate it with network automation."
"The ability to customize the views and dashboards is nice. SolarWinds also allows us to access the data via the API. That's probably the feature I liked the most."
"We can proactively fix historical issues, so we won't face those problems in future."
"We have configured multiple alerts for our network devices, including routers and switches, so that we are notified if any interface goes down."
"The interface is user-friendly, making it easy to use."
"The most important feature is reporting. The reports that are generated are useful and they save a lot of time with respect to monitoring."
"Reporting tools are a great feature along with the ability to create customized reports for you"
"The nice thing about SolarWinds is that it's kind of all-in-one. I can manage the status of my networking devices, whether they are up or down, I can see how much traffic is going across an interface, and I can run a report that tells me exactly what that traffic is."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"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."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"The SolarWinds notification and alerting configuration could be simplified as it would be easier to find if it was within the NPM web application instead of in a separate client application."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"An area for improvement would be the use of modular licenses, which are not practical for big clients."
"This solution would benefit from expanding on the capabilities within the API."
"The dashboard of the solution is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The only thing that can be improved is to continually add to the existing capabilities of the product."
"Real-time analytics is the major weakness of the SolarWinds NPM platform today. They've done a fantastic job enabling the collection of data. Users are now demanding the ability to generate their own graphs, views, and so on; all of this must be done by an admin today."
"Scalability is a bit tricky because it requires more gateways in order to get the performance you may need. It also requires a lot of licensing."
SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 76 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 146 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and Savision Live Maps, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and LogicMonitor. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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