SCOM Reviews

We use SCOM to configure different monitors using several management packs. It integrates systems like Active Directory and correlates them, and it is used for monitoring and managing systems.

SCOM allows integration of several systems, providing correlation between different systems such as Active Directory and monitoring servers. It offers alerting capabilities and threshold settings for system monitoring.

Our primary use case is to monitor the extensive system of services that we operate for clients.

SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) has helped improve our organization through reporting capabilities. The reporting is very good. We're an outsourcing company, so we provide services and manage service and as a service. We have a multi-service environment, so it is complicated to monitor and maintain. 

The alerting with SCOM is incredible. The product works well with multiple environment integration, and if there is an issue, the system forwards alerts to different service desk systems so that the issues are handled appropriately. There are actually numerous things the solution does for our company to automate processes, and, to top it off, it's a stable application.

I'm the operational manager for Business Connections Monitoring Toolsets. We do installations of this product. We do the configuration. We take care of changes in threshold if needed, and supply additional expertise for critical projects as needed. We monitor everything to be sure things continue to work optimally and do things like monitor hard drive space, etc.

The integration with Power BI from the SCOM database offers incredible possibilities for enhancing user experience. That integration is added value to our services because of what it can do and what we can make it do for clients.

People don't have to log on to the console to see what's going on. They get all the data through the integration between Power BI (Business Intelligence) and SCOM. It is extremely flexible and can be adjusted to meet specific operating criteria. 

If I compare the SCOM solution with the CA UIM (CA Technologies Unified Infrastructure Management) products, the CA products are horrendous in comparison. It's not stable in the way that they do their aggregation and their roll-ups. Really the methodology doesn't make sense. SCOM handles these things without a problem.

I manage SCOM. We use it mainly for Windows operating system monitoring and especially for Microsoft products, like Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Skype for Business, System Center, and MECM. Application-level monitoring for these Microsoft products has been taken care of by SCOM because it's a native tool by Microsoft. 

So it provides end-to-end application monitoring. Apart from this, it is capable of monitoring the operating system. So this is the tool which we are using as of now.

One of the good features is the inbuilt reporting in SCOM. It has a reporting tool where you can fetch the performance data and have historical data. By default, SCOM has a data warehouse, so all the data is collected and stored there, and you can use it for future analysis. That is one of the features. 

And apart from that, we have the web console. You don't need to have the thick client installed on your laptop. You can just go to the web console URL and see the HTML dashboards and live alerts. You can even see the live data and live performance data, the graphical view of the current performance of your application.

We use SCOM for all server applications, as well as service monitoring, such as Windows services, and auto-recovery of those services if they fail. Some of the processes that we monitor at the .exe level can also be restarted with SCOM. Then we use it all to monitor availability, health, and performance.

Personally, I enjoy it all. It's fairly powerful.

I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time.

When we patch, things are automatically put into maintenance mode so that the numbers for our systems being down, do not count against us.

The product's availability reports are valuable because they provide feedback on service stability. If a service isn't stable, the team focuses on maintenance or looks for alternative solutions.

They could provide better dashboards, detailed logs, and reports crucial for monitoring services in real-time.

I use SCOM for performance monitoring on the Windows environments, role-based access for SharePoint, software deployment, and reporting on any issues in the logs.

The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud.

The solution gives us an overview of where the bottlenecks could be. When there are issues, the solution helps us to easily detect which node the issues came from. Applying patches and fixes is also very easy once you've configured the system into the configuration manager correctly.

We use SCOM for monitoring our servers in one place.

The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises.