We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, ServiceNow, Microsoft and others in Event Monitoring."The most valuable feature of this solution is the efficiency."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"It's easy to use."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"The price could be improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"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."
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IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is ranked 15th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 13 reviews. IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is rated 7.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "We can monitor all the VMs in our environment and access full insight reports for all the VMs, but the solution is not stable". IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is most compared with , whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and Nagios XI.
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