SCOM offers a good monitoring solution for Microsoft environments
June 06, 2019
SCOM offers a good monitoring solution for Microsoft environments
Score 6 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with System Center Operations Manager
SCOM is currently being used to manage and monitor Microsoft Windows, Linux/UNIX, and iSeries environments. It is currently used by the Infrastructure team to gain visibility over CPU, disk, network reach-ability. It is the de-facto monitoring system for the enterprise.
- Provides basic notifications for standard IT performance indicators
- Highly extensible with multiple visualization and functionality tools
- Integrates well with the Microsoft ecosystem
- Installation and basic functionality is complex to setup
- Basic agents still don't work with all UNIX/Linux flavors
- Out of the box visualization inadequate for larger installations
- Significant cost involved to upgrade visualization and functionality for other platofrms.
- 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).
- 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.