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IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus Reviews

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IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus mindshare

As of December 2024, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus in the Event Monitoring category stands at 7.8%, down from 9.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
17%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Insurance Company
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Government
4%
Wholesaler/Distributor
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Real Estate/Law Firm
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Retailer
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Transportation Company
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Educational Organization
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Logistics Company
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University
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Construction Company
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Marketing Services Firm
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Comms Service Provider
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Healthcare Company
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Media Company
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Pharma/Biotech Company
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IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus reviews

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Senior Consultant AWS at Cognizant
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Sep 1, 2024
Good GUI and accuracy in processing but needs automated incident management

Pros

"It's good for managed systems. The end query on the user interface is good. You can view lots of charts and graphs."

Cons

"They could enhance the visibility to give us a unified view of our entire IT infrastructure."
Ahmed Salman - PeerSpot user
Performance & Monitoring Supervisor at Saudi Telecom Company
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Nov 26, 2024
Aids in network performance monitoring and management

Pros

"IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus supports legacy protocols like CORBA, Huawei, and other telecom protocols, which I find beneficial."

Cons

"The solution has limitations in database integration as it cannot integrate with databases other than IBM DB2."
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DimitriosArvanitakis - PeerSpot user
Senior Program / Project Manager at IT/Security Consultancy Company
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Aug 29, 2024
Quality support, intuitive GUI, and helpful alerting

Pros

"Offers very good event/alert drill-down and statistical reporting capabilities."

Cons

"The solution needs to invest in the development of a knowledge base and use of AI services for providing event resolution and intervention directions."
PG
Technical Lead at Mycom Osi
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Nov 26, 2024
Enhances alarm management with robust alert processing and seamless performance

Pros

"OMNIbus is valuable for its compatibility and performance, as I haven't encountered any performance issues."

Cons

"Areas that could be better include the fact that the solution is only on-premises, lacks AI capabilities, and support response times could be quicker."
RC
Lead Engineer at JCPenney Co.
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
May 30, 2020
Product discussed: 8.1
Good event management features and supports SNMP devices well

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the event management capability. "

Cons

"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
VD
Assistant Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Jan 2, 2021
Product discussed: 8.1.6
It is customer-centric and has support for multi-layered protocols, but it needs better integration and GUI

Pros

"It is customer-centric. Customers can access the event list from their location or desktop and view the event. There is no need to go and connect to any other server and run events to have a view of all the events happening in the environment. We get a good response from customers about this feature and the main architecture of NetCool. Its processing is very good. Deduplication and correlation functionalities are good in this solution as compared to other solutions. A big advantage of NetCool is that it also supports multi-layered protocols. We can receive multiple events from different protocols like UDP, HTTP, and those events can be captured in NetCool. "

Cons

"Its integration could be better. They should provide an easier integration for all the monitoring stuff, and it will make things easier for us. Currently, there is a complexity in integrating it with a vendor application, and we have to use another tool to integrate it with a vendor application. To integrate some applications with NetCool, I need to install an IBM tool on top of it. It would be good if they can provide an API or any kind of interface that we can leverage while developing a new protocol interface or application. We should be able to use an API or interface with NetCool. Its GUI can also be better. As compared to other tools, it is not user friendly, and it is not easy to do stuff through GUI. Whenever we do anything on the GUI, it takes time. They need to focus on the GUI part, especially the dashboard. They should focus on how users can effectively drill down from one box to another. The visual appeal of the dashboard is as important as the data and functionality."
Hennie Du Toit - PeerSpot user
Principal Specialist Architecture and Governance at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
May 15, 2023
The solution is highly configurable, with room for improvement in licensing costs

Pros

"The biggest plus points for me are the configurability and scalability of the solution, as well as the multi-tenancy of the platform."

Cons

"There should be an easier-to-understand model, more of a flat-structured model rather than different tiers of licenses which complicates licensing. "
PG
Technical Lead at Mycom Osi
Verified user of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Feb 23, 2022
Instant centralized monitoring that is extremely stable but could be more user-friendly and up-to-date

Pros

"Probes are the best feature because they are well written which rarely requires you to write additional rules. These probes monitor activity within your environment. "

Cons

"I would like for the next release to be more user-friendly and out of date. The next release should focus on the cloud, AI, and ML technologies. "