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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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- Threshold alerts (22)10.0100%
- Server availability and performance monitoring (21)10.0100%
- Database monitoring (22)9.090%
- Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting (21)8.080%
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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. 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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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
- Improved revenue
- Exceeded customer satifactions
- Solid NPS score
- Reduces downtime for critical application
- Provides predictive resource usage over time for future forecasting
- Performance monitoring and detection of anomalies has decreased the overall downtime by more than 50%
- NOC team can now monitor critical assets and inform relevant teams with ease, which has improved service SLA by 70%
- With integration with other System Center products we have achieved over 95% business system uptime
May 06, 2021
Always best for Microsoft OS monitoring
- Prevention of Disaster
- Proactive monitoring to address issues before disaster
- Customization option to monitor non standard services
- Thus avoiding downtime to avoid business impact
March 13, 2020
SCOM a good but dying product.
- License bundle with SCCM.
December 11, 2019
System Center Review
- Lower cost.
- Agentless.
- Time savings are a huge factor in simplifying patches and updates for all IT systems. Manual methods can be eliminated and turned into an automated task.
November 05, 2019
Good product to monitor your Microsoft landscape
- Being able to monitor the performance and security of our (mainly) Microsoft products has prevented some (small) disasters. Ranges from full disks that were predicted to complete databases that were about to become inconsistent.
- To manage Operations Manager requires more than basic knowledge. After training and working a lot with the product you should be able to effectively monitor your landscape like we do.
October 23, 2019
SCOM to manager all your systems
- We are able to proactively monitor applications and tackle events before they become issues.
October 18, 2019
SCCM offers good value for all the functionality
- SCCM has reduced costs associated with desktop and server deployments
- Enabled to refocus staff on other IT projects
- Reduced time to deploy upgrades to OS
October 17, 2019
Good for Monitoring Windows Infrastructure
- Improved monitoring visibility.
- Ease of implementation.
- Ease of integration.
September 21, 2019
Lightweight and helpful product
- You can analyze everything about the application through SCOM.
- Troubleshooting procedure is far better.
- Slow function rate sometimes.
- It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring.
- Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms.
- Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment.
- Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power).
- Allowed us to proactively monitor consumption of resources (storage) to proactively schedule upgrades if necessary
- Allows us to proactively visualize if a server or workstation processor is being over utilized and in need of a replacement, configuration change/upgrade.
- There have been no negative impacts other than the time it takes to get it set up and configured. Knowing what you want to monitor and the thresholds you wish to set take can take some time, but the ROI comes quickly after that.
March 28, 2019
Great product
- Overall ROI is positive.
- A demand for higher-end hardware seems to be demanded.
- Flexible
March 23, 2019
SCOM Monitors Everything
- Configure it and let SCOM do the work for you. You will get to know what is happening on your Datacenter.
February 01, 2018
Great monitoring extension for your System Center
- Implementation of SCOM allows one to reduce incident response time, helping to avoid bigger problems
- SCOM provides analytical functions to predict possible failures and resolve issues before these become critical
- SCOM integrates with other System Center products and allows engineers to continue working on familiar environment, just extending its functionality
January 18, 2018
SCOM is the Bomb!
- 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.
December 01, 2017
For Large Windows Enterprises with Resources there is No Better Asset Management Tool
- 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.
- First point: it depends if you have to pay for the System Center suite or it is already part of your licensing (for example, some versions of Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter had a System Center license included). If you have it already, the overall cost is lower.
- Second point: number of people in the IT department and IT budget. The "Proof of Concept" and roll-out phases of an SCOM deployment require some effort, especially for customization. A small IT department with no budget for consultancy could achieve a limited benefit from this solution having no time to tailor it to the specific needs.
- Third point: number of Microsoft products deployed in comparison to other vendors. A company that is using a huge number of different platforms, with Microsoft just being one of them, could prefer other monitoring solution.
February 26, 2016
SCOM 2012 Review from a sort of smart guy.
- 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.
February 25, 2016
SCOM - Bigger than the sum of its parts
- It has allowed us to provide an Enterprise Event/Alert management solution to the Global company
- It has taken a long time to get it to provide valuable alerts and information, lots of user resources and investment.
- It assists with 24/7 monitoring and out of hours support
October 30, 2015
Best centralized monitoring platform!
- SCOM already saved us several times during our own datacenter issues, because it warned us about that and helped us to root cause the issue. But be careful - it works right only if it's configured right (and that's not easy part).
- SCOM is a platform and many monitoring extensions for SCOM are available for free (especially for Microsoft products). It makes SCOM more interesting as a monitoring solution comparing to competitors.
October 30, 2015
SCOM or not to SCOM
- Better Application SLAs
- Better customer experience
- Being proactive and less application downtimes
October 28, 2015
Operations Manager from a System Center Expert
- Objective: Increase Reliability - Positive - Operations Manager gave is the deep level monitoring we needed to fix the underlying issues that affect the stability of the infrastructure and applications.
- Objective: Provide Executive Level Dashboards - Neutral - Operations Manager has dashboard capabilities, but we added Savision LiveMaps to Operations Manager to provide better dashboards.
- Objective: Reduce Overall Product Cost - Positive - We were able to remove many paid products from the environment with Operations Manager Monitoring.