Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)	Score7.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a monitoring and application performance management option, with the core datacenter and cloud-based systems monitoring.	N/A

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	Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Amit Sanwal Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Rackspace (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) The capability of SCOM as far as monitoring Windows systems is concerned is far greater than any monitoring product out there as both are a Microsoft product so integration and discoveries work well and fast. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) This was used to monitor uor non-Windows systems and was cumbersome. Their licensing was per device with how many agents you needed; however, with System Center Operations Manager, their billing was a lot easier for their product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) All comparative features are way expensive and complex to configure in all other competitors. Value to money and ease of deployment for Microsoft based environment Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) SCOM is better than OMi for Windows-based servers monitoring. You need to know how to use Visual Studio to customize the management pack. Dynatrace is way better for all Application Performance Manager. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) It is an excellent product for monitoring features like Exchange, Active Directory, DNS. Monitors are custom designed and can be adjusted to any system. Great monitors can be created even when monitoring open-source systems. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) It is used to monitor network device health status, similar to SCOM. Microsoft SCOM is far superior, however. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) This is our first solution and we have been using it for many years. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) It's the best product that is not heavier like other software of its kind. Incentivized Helpful? Ted Cook IT director\System Administrator in Information Technology at T3kOPS (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) SCCM is more streamlined and has better integration than 3rd party platforms. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) SolarWinds stacks well on the ease of use with an easily installable version and highly modular (products can be added to the basic installation and are easily managed from a single endpoint. System Center Operations Manager was selected because the majority of the environment … Incentivized Helpful? Joe Spradlin Director Of Information Technology in Information Technology at Fort Walton Machining, Inc. (Aviation & Aerospace, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) We didn't consider any other alternatives, nor did we try or demo any other product prior to our purchase of SCOM. I know there are several other products out that perform many of the same functions and more such as SolarWinds, however, those products are pricey as well and we … Incentivized Helpful? Andrey Perepelitsyn Microsoft SQL Server DBA in Information Technology at DBI (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) HP SiteScope is truly an agentless solution, with all the limitations of such approach, SCOM also has limited functionality for agentless monitoring, but you always can switch to agent-based configuration in SCOM, but not in SiteScope. Datadog is a good cloud-based monitoring … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Our organization currently uses Nagios and while it is a much cheaper alternative, you just don't get the features and capabilities that SCOM offers. Nagios seems to be limited to basic monitoring and alerts. SCOM is tailored to our TFS environment out of the box with the TFS … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) We used Altiris and WSUS and in the beginning Altiris had the better admin interface than SCOM, but it is no longer the case as SCOM has refined their admin interface. Altiris still has better and more robust group assignments for management roles and those two other tools can … Incentivized Helpful? Fabrizio Volpe Senior Consultant in Information Technology at Unify Square (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) The monitoring market is a really crowded one. While I think SCOM is the best solution for Microsoft-centric scenarios, competitors like Nagios or Tivoli may fit better for different expectations. Some companies with specific objectives (like ITIL management) could be pushed to … Incentivized Helpful? Rogee Fedeleon Technical Services Manager (Enterprise Systems) in Information Technology at Maimonides Medical Center (Hospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) We only had What's Up Gold in the past. What's Up Gold could not monitor services or performance of a server. It only would ping for up and down and we also used it for some SNMP monitoring with printers. SCOM had more features and was a more robust solution. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) N/A Incentivized Helpful? Roman Yuferev Practice Leader in Engineering at VIAcode (Internet, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) SCOM naturally competes with other monitoring products on the market. It's obvious, that monitoring products, such as SQLSentry ot RedGate SQL Monitor can do specific workload monitoring better, but when you need to have centralized monitoring solution - SCOM is the best! … Incentivized Helpful? Murad Akram Team Lead - Enterprise Systems Management in Information Technology at SAVO Group (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) I strongly believe, SolarWinds is the leader in monitoring and managing everything/anything network related, not saying Microsoft can't develop SCOM to beat SolarWinds, but Microsoft really needs to step back and figure out how far they want to take SCOM and what's the end goal … Incentivized Helpful? Brody Kilpatrick Senior Systems Engineer in Information Technology at Sparkhound (Oil & Energy, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) SolarWinds Application and Server monitoring is the right choice for many organizations. However, it does not provide the flexibility of monitoring that System Center Operations Manager provides. Smaller organizations might want to consider SolarWinds for application and server … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) It has more intuitive features and business ready monitoring capabilities Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Feature	Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 6.1 22 Ratings
Application monitoring	5.020 Ratings
Database monitoring	9.022 Ratings
Threshold alerts	10.022 Ratings
Predictive capabilities	2.020 Ratings
Application performance management console	3.019 Ratings
Collaboration tools	6.017 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications	4.020 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding	4.018 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring	7.020 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring	10.021 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting	8.021 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery	5.018 Ratings

User Ratings
	Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (25 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (8 ratings)