We performed a comparison between SCOM and WhatsUp Gold 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 works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"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 the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The interface in the last few years it has been a lot greater, they are much more user-friendly. I like the interface."
"The installation and configuration process are easy."
"The solution effectively monitors network devices and servers."
"We no longer have to manually search for problems because we are alerted when something in the network goes down."
"It is stable."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The user interface is good enough."
"The most valuable features are network bandwidth monitoring and monitoring device health."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"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."
"I might like to see a better interface in the future."
"We can never achieve or get a good picture of the network topology."
"Regional product team support is not very good."
"Integrations with other devices. I want to have a product that has full integration with my active directory so I can track user activity. I want to track my complete user activity, so I'm looking for a product to implement in the near future, which will have full integration with my network and active directory users. It became very difficult to track user activity."
"I would like to see them do an enhancement to the application monitoring. A lot of other products do better application monitoring so they should do some improvements to the application monitoring."
"The product is old and not updated."
"The licensing model could be improved. Right now, the levels are too far apart. This causes the solution to be more expensive than it needs to be."
"Users want SMS available via Whatsapp Gold. They don't want to go through third party SMS servers. The solution should work to make this possible."
SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews while WhatsUp Gold is ranked 40th in Network Monitoring Software with 21 reviews. SCOM is rated 7.8, while WhatsUp Gold is rated 7.6. 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 WhatsUp Gold writes "Accurate network monitoring, but tech support is lacking". SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and OpenText SiteScope, whereas WhatsUp Gold is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Zabbix, Grafana, PRTG Network Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security. See our SCOM vs. WhatsUp Gold report.
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