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."
"It's really user-friendly."
"The initial setup process is quite simple."
"An excellent dashboard that is currently unique in covering both SD-WAN and SD-LAN with built-in security."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to receive decent notification alerts regarding the license's expiry. Or any help on correcting or optimizing licenses, because in certain circumstances you can add a license but it's the wrong licensing. However, the Dashboard adds the license in some way, and you do not utilize it. You can simply extend the license's expiration date."
"We would like to be able to test the health of WAN connections."
"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 downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."
"The solution can be expensive."
"The initial setup is complex and can be made more straightforward."
"Price could be reduced."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"The price could be improved."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"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."
"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."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
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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