Great monitoring extension for your System Center
February 01, 2018
Great monitoring extension for your System Center
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with System Center Operations Manager
System Center Operations Manager is used across IT departments of our organization. It provides monitoring capabilities for our on-premise infrastructure and part of Azure-based VMs across the VPN gateway. SCOM helps us to monitor our hosts 24*7 and address issues immediately when an alert is triggered. Flexible configuration of SCOM allows us to set different threshold for alert in prod and non-prod environments
- Windows Server monitoring
- SQL Server monitoring
- Integration with Operation Management Suite
- Linux monitoring could be better
- Possibility for agentless monitoring could be helpful in some cases, but it has a lot of limitation in SCOM
- 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
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.