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WhatsUp Gold
It's best suited for large/multinational organisations with complex networks with limited qualified personnel across every location. However, I wouldn't recommend it for a small organisation with a very simple network architecture.
IT Support Executive
Zeta-Web Nigeria LimitedComputer Networking, 51-200 employees
SCOM
SCOM is best suited for mid-sized to large organizations to monitor and report on server health for many systems. SCOM is probably not suited for smaller organizations as the cost will outweigh the benefit. Companies that adopt SCOM will want to assure that a systems administrator has time budgeted to plan, roll-out and maintain SCOM for the organization. If the admin doesn't have experience with SCOM, invest in training.

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Administrator in Information Technology
Pharmaceuticals Company, 1001-5000 employeesFeature Rating Comparison
Network Performance Monitoring
WhatsUp Gold
7.6
SCOM
—
Automated network device discovery
WhatsUp Gold
8.9
SCOM
—
Network monitoring
WhatsUp Gold
9.2
SCOM
—
Alerts
WhatsUp Gold
7.9
SCOM
—
Network capacity planning
WhatsUp Gold
8.4
SCOM
—
Packet capture analysis
WhatsUp Gold
6.0
SCOM
—
Network mapping
WhatsUp Gold
7.4
SCOM
—
Customizable reports
WhatsUp Gold
6.9
SCOM
—
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
WhatsUp Gold
5.6
SCOM
—
Hardware health monitoring
WhatsUp Gold
8.3
SCOM
—
Application Performance Management
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
8.2
Application monitoring
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
8.1
Database monitoring
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
8.8
Threshold alerts
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
8.9
Predictive capabilities
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
7.2
Application performance management console
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
7.6
Collaboration tools
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
6.6
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
WhatsUp Gold
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SCOM
8.1
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
8.0
Virtualization monitoring
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
8.8
Server availability and performance monitoring
WhatsUp Gold
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SCOM
9.3
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
8.7
IT Asset Discovery
WhatsUp Gold
—
SCOM
8.0
Pros
- Optimal network and endpoint device monitoring.
- Explicit report generation on the endpoint and network performance.
- Investigating and troubleshooting of network and endpoint device issue has been made very easy.
IT Support Executive
Zeta-Web Nigeria LimitedComputer Networking, 51-200 employees
- Windows OS Monitoring - Out of the box, System Center Operations Manager does a wonderful job of monitoring Windows Operating System health, performance and configuration. It provides detailed reports and the data required to quickly make technical decisions.
- Community - The System Center Operations Manager community is huge. It is rare that we need to purchase a third party application to use along with System Center Operations Manager. Because System Center Operations Manager has been around for quite a while, many experts in the community are available for writing and sharing advanced management packs and monitoring strategies.
- Flexibility - System Center Operations Manager provides the flexibility to perform any monitoring that has ever been requested of me. While the product is simple in its native form, it can be expanded with the authoring tool, add-ons, and visual studio authoring extensions.
Senior Systems Engineer
SparkhoundOil & Energy, 5001-10,000 employees
Cons
- SNMP scripting would be one. Unless you are very well versed in SNMP trapping, you will do a lot of reading/playing/tuning to get exactly what you want.
- The all web interface has been a bit of a bummer. They took a lot of the functions from the admin console that made it easy to add/remove certain features quickly.
Sr. Network Engineer - Contract Work
The Salt BlockRetail, 5001-10,000 employees
- Network Monitoring - System Center Operations Manager provides network monitoring, but it is relatively new, clunky, and feature-poor. It is improving, but if you need to do advanced network monitoring, use a dedicated product.
- Consoles - System Center Operations Manager has two consoles - the web console and the desktop console. Both can be slow at times, even with a healthy back end. It has never been a huge problem, but when you are moving quickly, you can sometimes be caught up waiting a couple of seconds here or there.
Senior Systems Engineer
SparkhoundOil & Energy, 5001-10,000 employees
Alternatives Considered
From a initial setup, WhatsUp takes Splunk down. I had WhatsUp up within minutes of monitoring and rebooting. From a PRTG perspective, setup was about the same. Now PRTG doesn't have all the bells and whistle WhatsUp has but for tracking and monitoring Netflow and Syslog traffic its user interface is easier to maneuver, especially since they went to the web interface only.
Sr. Network Engineer - Contract Work
The Salt BlockRetail, 5001-10,000 employees
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.
Technical Services Manager (Enterprise Systems)
Maimonides Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees
Return on Investment
- We are able to train techs to use it quickly in our NOC.
- Server migrations have been slow for our teams, causing confusion throughout.
- The training classes offered are very expensive.
NOC Engineer 3, Enterprise Managed Services
Comcast BusinessTelecommunications, 10,001+ employees
- In the beginning it was hard to get all the admins to get on board with our SCOM procedures because there were a lot of false positives and needless pages for being made. However several years later there are fewer skeptics and each team find some value in some of the features.
- SCOM is an expensive solution the more servers you have.
Technical Services Manager (Enterprise Systems)
Maimonides Medical CenterHospital & Health Care, 5001-10,000 employees
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Pricing Details
WhatsUp Gold
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Additional Pricing Details
Unique TotalView ‘flexi-license’ leads the industry in flexibility and value. WhatsUp Gold 2017 BasicView: starting at $1,755SCOM
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No