Good product to monitor your Microsoft landscape
November 05, 2019

Good product to monitor your Microsoft landscape

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with System Center Operations Manager

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is being used for our office automation department that manages not all, but many user-related services and servers. To be able to manage efficiently and monitor the landscape of servers, System Center Operations Manager is used and has been for a couple of years now. It is a big product so it mainly makes sense if you have quite a few servers and/or services to monitor.

Pros

  • Customization option for monitoring are plenty, creating your own monitors.
  • Integrates nicely with other Microsoft products.

Cons

  • Steep learning curve.
  • You can make a mess of your implementation too easily. Keep to best practices and get to know the product!
  • 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.
This is our first solution and we have been using it for many years.
Microsoft support is great as always. Also the community driven support can be even greater. There is a huge body of knowledge on the internet.

Do you think Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) again?

Yes

Starting from medium-sized companies this might make sense. Also works best with Microsoft products. It can do other stuff, but it is less suited. Also for monitoring your network equipment: Operations Manager can do it, but you might want to look to other product for a better solution.

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Feature Ratings

Application Performance Management
7.3
Application monitoring
8
Database monitoring
8
Threshold alerts
8
Predictive capabilities
7
Application performance management console
6
Collaboration tools
6
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
9
Application dependency mapping and thresholding
7
Virtualization monitoring
7
Server availability and performance monitoring
8
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
7
IT Asset Discovery
7

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