We performed a comparison between DX Unified Infrastructure Management 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."
"Monitors the infrastructure asset and also monitors as an IT service."
"It's easy to push out across numerous servers. Very scalable."
"The monitoring of the applications to let our business know when things are performing and that they're up and available."
"The number of probes available. Out of the box, I believe about 200 probes are available. And, if there's a probe that is not available, you can write one. You can also go to the communities and suggest, and based on demand, CA will write one for you."
"You can scale it pretty much however way you want to as long as you have the servers to throw at it."
"I definitely appreciate the flexibility and ease of use. We've been using UIM for almost three years now. It's pretty much point and click, very easy to use. And we've had no problems scaling it to our own environment."
"Another division handed us the opportunity to monitor their solutions as written, and UIM was very useful for that."
"Easy admin functionality. You can quickly do all the admin functionality without reducing cycles."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"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 can send messages to our ticketing system."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The UIM has no features through goods and services yet. "
"It would be good to implement views showing the aggregated status graphically."
"The other element is that there are no real templates, out of the box. Let's go with an example where we do have the probe, which is great, and we do have a really nuanced customer with a small set of devices that maybe not a lot of other customers use. There might not be a template in place, so effectively we have the tool in front of us but we still need to develop a solution. So it would be really nice to see a little bit more of something like a central repository of templates that we could use. That would help us expedite our onboarding process."
"The biggest feature that I've been hoping they would enhance on is inventory management: things like adding/removing nodes."
"Reporting capability can be improved especially when it comes to availability."
"It needs a little bit more functionality in the Admin Console."
"CA UIM needs some improvement with performance reporting (if we compare it to CA eHealth)."
"The dashboards need to be improved."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
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DX Unified Infrastructure Management is ranked 38th in Network Monitoring Software with 120 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 76 reviews. DX Unified Infrastructure Management is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of DX Unified Infrastructure Management writes "Easy to set up, simple to use, and offers great technical support". 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". DX Unified Infrastructure Management is most compared with DX SaaS, DX Spectrum, ManageEngine OpManager, Nagios XI and Zabbix, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and AppDynamics. See our DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. SCOM report.
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