SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor vs SCOM

• SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps monitor the status or some of our most important applications. It has the capability of letting us know when an application goes down which helps us fix the issue faster.
• SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps monitor the resources on servers. By knowing the key components of the server such as CPU, RAM, and storage, we can forecast whether we need to increase or decrease resources on any server.
• SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor helps us by sending real time alerts when issues occur related to servers that we are monitoring.

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• Pick real-time health data from a large number of systems through their agent services installed on those remote systems.
• Have the ability to directly create an incident in snow with its SCOM-SNOW Integration pack.
• Have the capability to design activities to perform actions on apps or infrastructure components directly from SCOM Dashboard.

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• The new node based licensing model makes it difficult to justify the price for nodes that only utilize a few components.
• Script results need to be a statistic. It would be a lot more useful if we could populate a table of results, including alpha-numeric strings, boolean, etc.
• A lot of the AppInsight components cannot be disabled. You have to either use the whole template or nothing.

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• One of the biggest drawbacks to SCOM is the sheer scope and complexity of the system. This can be a pro and a con. The system is very customizable, what you put into it is what you'll get out of it. That said, the learning curve is fairly steep. An organization needs to be committed to putting time and resources into SCOM to get the most out of it. I've heard stories from colleagues of several different companies that invested in SCOM and then abandoned it due to the excessive time and care required.
• SCOM is expensive. Not only is the enterprise licensing costly, SCOM requires it's own servers, operational and warehouse databases to be maintained.
• The OOB SCOM reports are a bit clunky and feel outdated.

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• SolarWinds has helped to improve proactive resolution or mitigation of application issues. This has often resulted in issues fixed before customers were aware of the problem.
• SolarWinds has provided valuable information when troubleshooting issues to meet Service Level Agreements.
• SolarWinds has helped get the correct team working on issues.

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• We wanted to make sure that updates and patches deployed are actually successfully installed on devices and other tools cannot match SCOM for detailed feedback on deployment status.
• We can now confidently provide management and security teams on successful update of security patches with high accuracy.
• Deployment complexity took over a year to fully implement all necessary features with help of consultants and in house teams. Wish it was simpler.

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