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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

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What is Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)?

Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a monitoring and application performance management option, with the core datacenter and cloud-based systems monitoring.

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Recent Reviews

System Center Review

9 out of 10
December 11, 2019
Incentivized
We are using Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager in our organization mainly for event management and monitoring. It is used for …
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Popular Features

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  • Threshold alerts (22)
    10.0
    100%
  • Server availability and performance monitoring (21)
    10.0
    100%
  • Database monitoring (22)
    9.0
    90%
  • Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting (21)
    8.0
    80%

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What is Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)?

Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a monitoring and application performance management option, with the core datacenter and cloud-based systems monitoring.

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Product Demos

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Features

Application Performance Management

Application performance management software monitors software to ensure performance and availability

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Product Details

What is Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)?

Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a monitoring and application performance management option. It supports both datacenter and cloud-based systems monitoring, and can recommend possible root causes or corrective actions when impactful thresholds are crossed on the monitored environment. SCOM also features adjustable thresholds for alerts, as well as a variety of prebuilt monitoring integrators with additional third-party integrators available.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a monitoring and application performance management option, with the core datacenter and cloud-based systems monitoring.

Reviewers rate Threshold alerts and Server availability and performance monitoring highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 30, 2023

SCOM- The monitoring OG

Amit Sanwal | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Dynatrace also has more automatization.
December 11, 2019

System Center Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
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.
Joe Spradlin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 decided to stick with the Microsoft product in the end.
Andrey Perepelitsyn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 tool with lots of preconfigured solutions, but it keeps your data out of your control, which can be a security concern in some cases.
January 18, 2018

SCOM is the Bomb!

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 management pack. The level of detail we have into our TFS system is unmatched with SCOM.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 better manage non Windows OS devices than SCOM but for a large enterprise Windows shop, if you can afford it, SCOM is the way to go.
Fabrizio Volpe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 use a product more focused on a specific approach.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Roman Yuferev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • SolarWinds Application & Server Management
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! That's why many competitors has integration modules, which allows them to send their data to SCOM.
October 30, 2015

SCOM or not to SCOM

Murad Akram | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 for this product.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 monitoring, but medium to large organizations might want to try System Center Operations Manager. As far as network monitoring though, SolarWinds beats System Center Operations Manager 10-to-1.
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