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Pros
"This helps to centralize multiple monitoring solutions and streamline integration into ITSM."

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"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not.""The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console.""It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance.""The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage.""The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped.""Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it.""I like the historical reporting of observer metrics.""They have great integration with the active directory."

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Cons
"Perhaps more focus can be done on the CMDB portion and bi-directional communication to the ITSM system, but this is a small portion."

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"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring.""Application monitoring must be improved.""The management of the servers could be better.""There are some negative points about this product. Sometimes, the capabilities of the software don't appear, and you can't directly see the results. You have to wait for a long period to refresh the policy to push it to the software or other patches.""The price could be improved.""The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult.""Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable.""The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."

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  • "The pricing and licensing are fair."
  • "Our licensing fees are approximately $30 per user, per month."
  • "If you have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, then this is part of the agreement."
  • "It is more expensive than the competition."
  • "SCOM is part of the System Center suite and I am satisfied with the pricing."
  • "We have an enterprise agreement that includes this product as part of it."
  • "The pricing is good, and it's part of their system center suite."
  • "We have to pay for a license and the price is fine for us."
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    Top Answer:The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location.
    Top Answer:It is the cheapest product available in the market. I rate the pricing a one out of ten.
    Top Answer:SCOM needs to improve its usability.
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    8.2
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    Compared 2% of the time.
    Also Known As
    Live Maps
    System Center Operations Manager, SCOM 2012
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    Overview
    Business Service Management Visualization & Grouping Tools for Microsoft System Centre

    SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) is a cross-platform data center monitoring and reporting tool that checks the status of various objects defined within the environment, such as server hardware, system services, etc. The solution allows data center administrators to deploy, configure, manage, and monitor the operations, services, devices and applications of multiple enterprise IT systems via a single pane of glass. It is suitable for businesses of all sizes.

    SCOM Features

    SCOM has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Application monitoring
    • Database monitoring
    • Threshold alerts
    • IT Asset Discovery
    • Predictive capabilities
    • Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
    • Application performance management console
    • Server availability and performance monitoring
    • Collaboration tools
    • Virtualization monitoring
    • Patch management
    • Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
    • Application dependency mapping and thresholding

    SCOM Benefits

    There are several benefits to implementing SCOM. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Management and monitoring of Windows as well as Unix/Linux platforms
    • Remotely connect to Windows machines and perform administrative tasks from the console itself
    • Custom dashboard creation to help monitor the datacenter with ease
    • Agent based monitoring
    • Integrates well with other Microsoft products
    • Easy to use and reliable

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the SCOM solution.

    A Manager at a financial services firm says, “The feature I like most about SCOM is that it is easy-to-use. I find it very user-friendly. I also like the knowledge base which it has. You can find the resolution to questions or issues directly within the SCOM itself. It will alert you with a recommendation of what you need to do at the same time. This sort of self-diagnosis or prompting is one of the great values you get from SCOM compared to other solutions.”

    PeerSpot user Zahari Z., Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm, mentions, “Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications. There is a mechanism to set up a notification from the SCOM and whenever there is a drop in the availability the notification alerts not only for availability but for other issues as well. You can align thresholds according to the speed of your environment and you can have a threshold related notification, which is one of the useful features.”

    Bill W., Sr. Systems Engineer at Arapahoe County Government, comments, “ 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.”

    A Project Manager at a tech services company explains, “The feature I have found most valuable is the book feature. While we run the Sprint one we can add some setups for multiple sprints.”

    A Systems Engineer at an educational organization states, “Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it.”

    Sample Customers
    Municipality of Alphen, Farah Leisure Parks Management LLC, Mail Technology, Austria Card, SMR Automotives
    Dialog Telekom
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Real Estate/Law Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Retailer13%
    Government10%
    Healthcare Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise64%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Savision Live Maps is ranked 72nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. Savision Live Maps is rated 10.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Savision Live Maps writes "Helpful dashboard, and the ElasticSearch feature helps to identify problematic components". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Savision Live Maps is most compared with Accedian Skylight, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and OpenText SiteScope.

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