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."I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"What I found most valuable in the Meraki Dashboard is straight monitoring of the different devices, as well as the ability to easily set up VPNs, for example, both Meraki client VPNs and non-Meraki VPNs for different organizations that work with my company. I also like that the tool is a really good firewall."
"It's really user-friendly."
"What I found most valuable in Meraki Dashboard is that it's well-organized, easy to use, and practical."
"It is very stable and we have been using it for five years."
"Scalability is one of Meraki Dashboard's strongest features. We have thousands of users if we're counting the end-users on our clients' network, but we have hundreds of clients."
"The most valuable features are that it's easy to use and technically very complete. I can configure, do advanced troubleshooting in the dashboard, and reboot access points remotely."
"It's easy to use."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The stability has been great."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"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."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"Some features could be added."
"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"It's a very complex system. Customers have told me that sometimes there are lots of advanced features that are available and that you can change in the dashboard, but sometimes it's very hard to know what they are."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"The price could be lower because the license for access points is expensive."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very 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."
"The management of the servers could be better."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 15 reviews while SCOM is ranked 12th in Network Monitoring Software with 13 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 9.0, while SCOM is rated 8.0. 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 "Easy to scale, offers helpful maintenance schedules, and free online training is available". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Auvik, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor and Nagios XI. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SCOM report.
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