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An end-to-end performance monitoring solution with a useful event management feature
Pros and Cons
  • "I like the event management part."
  • "It would be better if the initial setup and deployment were more straightforward."

What is our primary use case?

BMC TrueSight Operations Management can be used to monitor anything on-premises. This includes the server, applications, log monitoring, event IT monitoring, process monitoring, etc.

What is most valuable?

I like the event management part.

What needs improvement?

It would be better if the initial setup and deployment were more straightforward.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have worked with BMC TrueSight Operations Management for more than eight years.

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What do I think about the stability of the solution?

BMC TrueSight Operations Management is a stable solution.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

BMC TrueSight Operations Management is a scalable solution. We are monitoring a large environment.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is good.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup isn't straightforward and is a bit complex to implement. It really depends on the environment. I have implemented several accounts within one or two months if prerequisites are met or already in place. You need more than three people to manage and maintain this solution.

What about the implementation team?

I implement this solution.

What other advice do I have?

I would recommend this solution to potential users. I would tell potential users that we have to focus on the prerequisites and the planning phase. If these two things are taken care of properly, then the implementation will be smooth.

On a scale from one to ten, I would give BMC TrueSight Operations Management an eight.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Implementer
PeerSpot user
Danny Quezada - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Helps to monitor servers, databases, Windows, Linux, and web services
Pros and Cons
  • "I use the solution to monitor servers, databases, Windows, Linux, and web services."
  • "The solution should improve predicting events and flaws in service. It also needs to improve integration with other systems."

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution to monitor servers, databases, Windows, Linux, and web services. 

How has it helped my organization?

The solution helps my customer monitor the Oracle database for logs. 

What needs improvement?

The solution should improve predicting events and flaws in service. It also needs to improve integration with other systems. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been working with the solution for four years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

BMC TrueSight Operations Management is stable. 

How are customer service and support?

The tool's support is good. 

How would you rate customer service and support?

Positive

What other advice do I have?

I would rate BMC TrueSight Operations Management a ten out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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It Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Consultant
Eases cross launch between multiple tools and improved monitoring views and dashboards
Pros and Cons
  • "It provides common administration, and a Single Sign-On Platform with RBAC, which eases the cross launch between multiple tools"

    What is our primary use case?

    Performance and Availability monitoring.

    Putting all the infrastructure and application and various monitoring into a Service Context for Service Monitoring. 

    How has it helped my organization?

    Faster, more efficient, better views for the operators to view. A more centralized approach to managing the infrastructures. Improved app visibility features.

    What is most valuable?

    TrueSight Operations Manager is a combination of different components (applications) like Presentation Server, Impact Manager, and AppVisibility Manager and IT's Data Analytics, but it provides a seamless integration and a holistic view with Application and Infrastructure Health views.

    It provides common administration, and a Single Sign-On Platform with RBAC, which eases the cross launch between multiple tools and saves the need to configure users for all the different components and improving monitoring views.

    What needs improvement?

    There are no broader areas of improvement. It would vary, environment by environment. As such, there are no outstanding bugs or defects that are not documented.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    One to three years.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    No. TSOM 10.7 is quite stable provided it is installed with the vendor recommendations, which are created by the experience drawn from customers and the complexity of the environment.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    No issues with scalabilty. The customers where I have implemented this have ranged from small to very large. I have never faced any deployment challenges in any of these cases.

    How are customer service and technical support?

    Excellent support from the vendor. Support technicians and developers are all available to help if there is an issue. Support cases are tracked and the resolution (of the same) is pushed to be done faster.

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    No, I have always worked with BMC Solutions for infrastructure and application monitoring.

    How was the initial setup?

    Yes, the setup after the design of the solution was pretty straightforward. The vendor has a lot of free Webinars where they will explain the best practices to design a solution and the best ways to implement it. These guidelines can be used to build custom guidelines for the customer.

    What about the implementation team?

    Implemented with in-house team, have been interacting with Vendor team as well with excellent expertise in Truesight Operations Manager.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    I have not dealt with the pricing or licensing, so I cannot comment.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    Not applicable.

    What other advice do I have?

    It is quite an efficient tool. There are continuous improvements being performed to satisfy the customer needs, but like any other tool or automation, it has some issues.

    TrueSight offers a global solution with possibility of end to end integration.

    Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partners.
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    PeerSpot user
    Project Manager with 51-200 employees
    Vendor
    The ability to fulfill the role as a manager of managers is fantastic. We integrated a number of other monitoring tools into BMC.​
    Pros and Cons
    • "I believe that the ease of use and UI is great"
    • "I think the ease of deployment needs to be looked at. It would be great if the deployment was faster and easier."

    How has it helped my organization?

    I have used the BMC product in two separate instances, the one was as a monitor of monitors for an ops bridge to have a single view of all monitoring tools reporting into one source, this worked extremely well.

    The other instance was as a managed services looking at multiple different customers across South Africa.

    What is most valuable?

    I believe that the ease of use and UI is great. The ability to fulfill the role as a manager of managers is fantastic. We integrated a number of other monitoring tools into BMC.

    What needs improvement?

    I think the ease of deployment needs to be looked at. It would be great if the deployment was faster and easier.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    We experienced no issues with stability on both BMC and HP.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    Only issue we experienced with scalability was that the maximum growth needs to be catered for in the initial build. Planning needs to be done carefully.

    How are customer service and technical support?

    Technical support from BMC was good, had to wait a little longer some times for a response which complicated things with the client.

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    The companies I worked for were BMC shops from start to finish, made use of Remedy, BCO, Control M etc. Companies wanted the best of breed.

    How was the initial setup?

    The setups were not complex but there was a large amount of pre-deployment and planning that went into the solutions.

    What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

    The solutions are not the cheapest but are robust and stable. License model is rather complex and BMC do often change the model.

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    Other products were evaluated, such as HP and IBM as well as various opensource solutions.

    What other advice do I have?

    My advice would be do not cut on the planning time as well as testing time, UAT, SIT as well as FIT.

    Also make sure that you have the correct infrastructure in place and also cater for the intended growth.

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    it_user599178 - PeerSpot reviewer
    it_user599178Project Manager with 51-200 employees
    Vendor

    I believe in the Enterprise customer base BMC is going to lead. As mentioned above BMC have the ability to simply integrate anfd view in the Manager of Managers. This is critical in environments where there are multiple existing and legacy toolsets. A single view is key to empower the resources that need only critical information displayed so that fast and effective response is gauranteed.

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    MSP
    A straightforward setup, but the pricing could be better
    Pros and Cons
    • "It is a stable solution."
    • "The pricing could be better."

    What is our primary use case?

    Its use depends on the speed of installation.

    What is most valuable?

    It's good if you understand the systems and issues well.

    What needs improvement?

    The pricing could be better.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    It is a stable solution.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    It is a scalable solution. We have about five administrators using BMC TrueSight Operations Management.

    How are customer service and support?

    The technical support is satisfactory.

    How was the initial setup?

    The initial setup was straightforward. It took us about eight months to implement.

    What other advice do I have?

    I rate this solution a seven out of ten, and I would recommend it to others. In addition, the solution is deployed on-premises.

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    reviewer2012658 - PeerSpot reviewer
    Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
    Consultant
    Useful event management, reliable, and simple deployment
    Pros and Cons
    • "The most valuable features of BMC TrueSight Operations Management are the blackouts and event management."
    • "BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting."

    What is most valuable?

    The most valuable features of BMC TrueSight Operations Management are the blackouts and event management. 

    What needs improvement?

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting. 

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have been using BMC TrueSight Operations Management for approximately one year.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management is stable.

    How are customer service and support?

    I have not used the support from BMC TrueSight Operations Management.

    How was the initial setup?

    If the system meets the prerequisites requirements of BMC TrueSight Operations Management then the process of deployment is not difficult.

    What other advice do I have?

    The visibility of the environment that the solutions provide is great. The visibility of the entire infrastructure and the ability to drill down to the detail is useful. 

    I rate BMC TrueSight Operations Management an eight out of ten.

    Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
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    PeerSpot user
    Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
    MSP
    Benefits include Reduced Cost, Improved Availability and Service Quality

    What is most valuable?

    It's an Integrated Platform and Event Management Console.

    How has it helped my organization?

    Goal
    • Outage Avoidance

    Benefits

    • Improved Service Quality
    • Improved Availability
    • Enable Virtual & Cloud
    • Reduced Cost

    Key Capabilities

    • Predictive Service Impact
    • Self-Learning Analytics & Predictive Root Cause
    • Dynamic Virtualization & Cloud Analytics
    • Continuous Deep Dive Diagnostics
    • Unified BSM Architecture

    What needs improvement?

    I don't see any improvement as if now.

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    No

    How was the initial setup?

    Straight Forward in terms of deployment.

    What about the implementation team?

    In House Team

    Which other solutions did I evaluate?

    Yes, HP Tools, CA Tools.

    What other advice do I have?

    This is the best product so far I have ever experienced.
    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    Technical Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
    MSP
    BPPM - Movement of Oracle Database from a RAC to a Standalone.

    Hi Everyone,

    I would like to share one of my experience in a Project where we have a Scenario of moving our BPPM Oracle RAC Database Instance to a Oracle Standalone Database Instance. We just have backup of our RAC Database kept with all data in it.

    We have restored the DB Backup from RAC to Standalone Oracle DB instance.

    Further to this we have made changes in pronet.conf file over BPPM Application Server.

    We need to replace the enteries of Oracle RAC with Oracle Standalone Instance. While doing these changes keep BPPM Application Server completely down.

    RAC Instance Enteries which needs to be removed.

    pronet.api.database.oracle.rac=true
    pronet.api.database.oracle.rac.count=1
    pronet.api.database.oracle.rac.host.1=abc.xxx.com
    pronet.api.database.oracle.rac.port.1=1655
    pronet.api.database.sid=ABC

    Standalone Enteries which needs to be placed.

    pronet.api.database.hostname=abc.xyz.com
    pronet.api.database.oracle.rac=false
    pronet.api.database.portnum=1655
    pronet.api.database.sid=ABC

    Once this is done. Turn on BPPM Application.

    Your BPPM will be up and running over Oracle Standalone Database.

    ./Anuparn Padalia

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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