Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SCOM to provide enhanced monitoring to our customer's Windows servers as a managed hosting service. Proactive monitoring is the biggest business problem that SCOM addresses which reduces the potential incidents that a customer can have due to an outage that poses huge financial threats, especially during their peak business season or hours. We provide monitoring to thousands of customers who depend on their servers to run their critical apps seamlessly and usually, we resolve the issue before an outage occurs.

Likelihood to Recommend

SCOM is more suited for Windows-based devices such as servers, etc. SCOM is less suited where you are trying to monitor cloud services like VMs, storage, etc.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

System Center Operations Manager is used by our enterprise for Windows-based monitoring. It addresses multiple monitoring services, such as alerting for low disk space, high memory usage alerts, account creations, accounts being added or removed from groups, services stopping, and much more.

Likelihood to Recommend

If there is a mission-critical application, System Center Operations Manager would be part of ensuring everything is running smoothly. System Center Operations Manager would be on each server and custom alerts would be created should something go wrong or happen from an OS level or an application level.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Here System Center Operations Manager is being used across multiple departments.

System Center Operations Manager is a highly versatile and efficient monitoring tool which we are using to perform monitoring of our various servers and datacenter equivalent. We also generate performance analysis using System Center Operations Manager so we can predict when a certain resource will be exhausted and in this way we can plan for it accordingly.

The most amazing thing about System Center Operations Manager is that it is highly integrable with any other vendor hardware and software through what are called management packs. Using these management packs, which are readily available, one can monitor a large amount of hardware without worrying about the underlying vendor.

The second most amazing thing is that System Center Operations Manager alerts are highly customizable based on specific needs and requirements. We can granularly configure the alerts based on a wide variety of criteria and even create our own custom criteria, too. We can then create specific groups to forward the alerts to the relevant team so they can see it and take appropriate action promptly.

Likelihood to Recommend

System Center Operations Manager is really built for a wide variety of scenarios. But it works best with Microsoft software like Windows since it is the same vendor.

Where there are only Unix/Linux platforms then the features of System Center Operations Manager are currently limited, but hopefully Microsoft will address this in a future update.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is used by IT infrastructure team to monitor server infrastructure including private cloud and server environment. Around 150 virtual server running on hyper-v cloud as well as Virtual servers running on VMware VSAN . O.s includes most of Microsoft but some are Linux . We rely on SCOM for monitoring our server environment completely . Email alerts are configured for service owners and infrastructure team . Dashboard for mission critical servers for NOC team . And team wise dashboards .<div>

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Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited when your infrastructure is Microsoft based as there is no other tool that can outclass SCOM

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SCOM is used to monitor all our Windows servers and their services. Those include:

- AD

- SQL

- Exchange

- Azure

- Lync

- Office 365

- Windows 10

- Windows File Services

- Windows IIS

- Windows Servers

- DNS

It is currently critical to our Windows monitoring throughout the company. The fact that the SCOM licenses are included with SCCM licenses is a plus for us.

Likelihood to Recommend

- Good to monitor Windows-based services.

- Hard to work with cloud-based monitoring.

- Not much application monitoring.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager in our organization mainly for event management and monitoring. It is used for all the server infrastructure and services.

Likelihood to Recommend

We really appreciate the level of detail and thoroughness that SCOM provides for monitoring. When you implement, do <i>not</i> install everything available, and do <i>not</i> install management packs with all monitoring enabled. Pick and choose what you actually need.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used across the whole organization. It provides ease of management and support for multiple devices across the network.

Likelihood to Recommend

System Center Operations Manager is a great fit for large scale deployments and support teams, providing full functionality for all facets of IT management. For smaller companies, this may be too large to scale.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is being used for our office automation department that manages not all, but many user-related services and servers. To be able to manage efficiently and monitor the landscape of servers, System Center Operations Manager is used and has been for a couple of years now. It is a big product so it mainly makes sense if you have quite a few servers and/or services to monitor.

Likelihood to Recommend

Starting from medium-sized companies this might make sense. Also works best with Microsoft products. It can do other stuff, but it is less suited. Also for monitoring your network equipment: Operations Manager can do it, but you might want to look to other product for a better solution.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager in our organisation mainly for event management and monitoring. We are able to integrated Operations Manager with multiple systems from different vendors and can apply actions if appropriate. Along with this, we use Operations Manager with Squared Up to provide different teams with dashboards to provide clean views for their systems.

Likelihood to Recommend

Systems Center Operations Manager is particularly well suited to larger environments, especially when running systems by different vendors. However, it is quite management intensive if you want to use it to its full potential.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it for the monitoring of our Windows infrastructure.

Likelihood to Recommend

System Centre is well suited to monitoring the Windows infrastructure. The custom management packs help us get more out of the product as well. We are looking to extending System Centre to monitor UNIX pending POC evaluation - this will help consolidate our tooling and make supporting out infrastructure easier.