We performed a comparison between Oracle Enterprise Manager and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Oracle, Quest Software, SolarWinds and others in Database Development and Management."It is a good tool for monitoring databases."
"The solution is easy to use and has good performance."
"We use it extensively for performance tuning testing, monitoring, and configuration."
"The product gives us as much control as we can have by providing a complete picture of the whole set of Oracle products."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager is a scalable solution."
"It's easy to implement as it's made by Oracle for Oracle."
"Some of the most valuable features are its real-time performance view/dashboard, metric history, real-time monitoring and alerts, as well as quick access to Oracle's tuning and diagnostic options."
"I mostly use the top events, and look at how the execution is happening on the database; and monitoring the cluster level rates. I even look at the execution plan."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"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."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"It needs to support the Database versions lower than 10.2."
"In my experience, the monitoring could be improved."
"Oracle Enterprise Manager could improve the monitoring types and the graphics."
"The interface could be more friendly for basic users."
"RMAN tools need improvement."
"I would like to improve the cost."
"Better mobile access would be useful."
"The solution's agents work with Java, and the Java code sometimes consumes a lot of memory on the CPU."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
Oracle Enterprise Manager is ranked 1st in Database Development and Management with 123 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. Oracle Enterprise Manager is rated 8.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Oracle Enterprise Manager writes "Provides good stability and has an easy implementation process". 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". Oracle Enterprise Manager is most compared with Zabbix, Quest Spotlight, Dynatrace, AppDynamics and Quest Foglight for Databases, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.
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