We performed a comparison between OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It reduces the number of repetitive motions required by a human to respond to the system."
"Once automatic IPL has been defined, anyone can perform an IPL with very little intervention. We know that all of the components will be started correctly."
"It is an easy product to use and it is stable."
"Stability is probably the best out-of-the-box. Put it in, set it up, and you leave it alone. It works wonderfully."
"With the automation pieces we can bring this region up or take this region down, and it allows us to always meet our time critical requirements."
"Because we can define complex commands, the training of new operators is quicker. We can also put checks in place, that will prevent user errors."
"The documentation is simple, easy to follow, and use. A limited, first-time systems programmer can do it, in that it is out-of-the-box almost functional."
"It alerts the operators when it is time to repair the communications and the IPLs."
"The stability has been great."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"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."
"Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age."
"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."
"The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."
"It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process."
"It definitely needs more web-based interface, to be more mobile-open. More APIs, more open source to it."
"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script."
"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."
"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
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OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 14th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is rated 9.4, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence writes "The ability to use command rules is great when our operators have repetitive tasks, but we'd like to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is". 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". OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is most compared with BMC MainView, BMC TrueSight Operations Management and IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence vs. SCOM report.
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