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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Score 7.5 out of 10
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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)
Amit Sanwal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Amit Sanwal
Infrastructure Engineer
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.
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Anonymous
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.
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Anonymous
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
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Anonymous
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.
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Anonymous
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.
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Anonymous
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.
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Anonymous
Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
This is our first solution and we have been using it for many years.
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Anonymous
Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
It's the best product that is not heavier like other software of its kind.
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Ted Cook
IT director\System Administrator
Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
SCCM is more streamlined and has better integration than 3rd party platforms.
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Anonymous
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 …
Joe Spradlin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joe Spradlin
Director Of Information Technology
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 …
Andrey Perepelitsyn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Andrey Perepelitsyn
Microsoft SQL Server DBA
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 …
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Anonymous
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 …
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Anonymous
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 …
Fabrizio Volpe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Fabrizio Volpe
Senior Consultant
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 …
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Rogee Fedeleon
Technical Services Manager (Enterprise Systems)
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.
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Anonymous
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Roman Yuferev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Roman Yuferev
Practice Leader
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! …
Murad Akram | TrustRadius Reviewer
Murad Akram
Team Lead - Enterprise Systems Management
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 …
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Brody Kilpatrick
Senior Systems Engineer
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 …
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Anonymous
Chose Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
It has more intuitive features and business ready monitoring capabilities
Features
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
6.1
Ratings
22% below category average
Application monitoring5.00 Ratings
Database monitoring9.00 Ratings
Threshold alerts10.00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities2.00 Ratings
Application performance management console3.00 Ratings
Collaboration tools6.00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications4.00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding4.00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring7.00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring10.00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery5.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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Support Rating
7.3
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User Testimonials
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for IT Departments that can budget the funds and time needed for setup and maintenance of SCOM. The end product is well suited for medium to large environments that have 100's of resources that require monitoring and reporting. Enterprise level statistics are at your fingertips with a few clicks of a mouse after the product has been configured and agents have been deployed. As I said previously, we are a small business and I was fortunate enough to be able to budget this product into our environment. It did take us a while to configure and fully deploy, but as a result, we are well-informed and are able to extract detailed information as it pertains to usage/consumption of our workstation and server resources to include performance metrics and any errors that may arise.
Joe Spradlin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Joe Spradlin
Director Of Information Technology
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Pros
  • SCOM can manage Windows OS systems from desktops to servers very well.
  • SCOM is platform agnostic in that we manage physical and virtual machines with no differentiation.
  • SCOM can quickly deploy emergency security patches and the best part is it can provide detailed results of success and failure rate of patch deployment.
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Cons
  • It is a monster of a system and really needs a person managing the system full time
  • Options are a bit clunky especially when you need to set overrides.
  • Takes a lot of time and effort to setup alerts as you want them, don't rely on the out of the box options you need to invest time into the system to get what you want out of it.
  • Make sure you size the underlying database server/s correctly (Microsoft provide a tool to calculate based on number of objects you plan to collect data on), it is a datawarehouse underneath after all.
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
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Usability
Ease of Use and user friendly dashboard
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Support Rating
Hard to get support. The product is not being actively developed anymore, so it is hard to get new features for the product.
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Implementation Rating
Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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Alternatives Considered
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 is based on Windows products and it was part of the licensing agreement. It offered an easy way to consolidate the monitoring tools to provide a single point of management.
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Return on Investment
  • Since we are at the tail end of our POC, we have no immediate ROI to report.
  • That said, during the POC, we immediately identified several issues within TFS that we immediately addressed and will potentially save us hours of lost time and troubleshooting.
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