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 product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"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."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"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 set up was very easy. We didn't have any problems with the setup. The deployment took less than an hour."
"Technical support has always been great. They are very responsive. We've been satisfied with their level of support."
"The biggest thing for me is that it provided enough information for me to monitor. It alerts and provides you with the information you need."
"Their support team is efficient, and it is easy to set up."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"I can do everything remotely, including running PowerShell scripts or performing standard updates."
"I believe the ease of setup and use, including everything, from the initial installation to the discovery of devices is the most valuable."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"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."
"This solution would benefit from expanding on the capabilities within the API."
"SolarWinds needs to be improved such that it is on par with the leading products in the market."
"It would be nice to have a test to check if you can access a particular device via API without installing it and waiting for a poll cycle. You should have the capacity to initiate a test to see if it was reachable and get the results almost immediately."
"They need to work on their automation and automatically discover devices. They are not very good at automatically discovering devices."
"There should be a little bit more integration in some of the other tooling and utilizing the APIs of devices or tools could be a little bit better."
"GUI needs improvement with a more graphical dashboard."
"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."
"SolarWinds NPM could improve the graphics of the interface and more customized reporting."
SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 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 Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and OpenText SiteScope, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Entuity. See our SCOM vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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