We performed a comparison between OpenText Operations Bridge 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's a very good product overall."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with everything."
"It has the capability to display overall health of the infrastructure and is very useful for executive reports on the health of the infrastructure."
"Flexible dashboard with the availability of widgets."
"Purely, its flexibility is the most valuable aspect. It is hugely configurable."
"I find the Micro Focus Operations Bridge dashboard valuable, including its instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's not complex at all."
"It is stable."
"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 most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"Installing and upgrading the HPOM and Operations Agent software is not always easy and the process can be quite fragile. Once it is running, it is very quick and stable, but an upgrade can quite easily break something or terminate unexpectedly."
"The solution is overall "heavy", requiring multiple servers, even without HA."
"In a future release, we would like an improved upgrade process. When you upgrade it now, it first uninstalls everything and then reinstalls all the packages, which means any customization that you've done in the directories on the surface disappears."
"I know that in the next version, X1005, they're moving to more graphical overviews, which should help our senior managers."
"Our issues are largely support related due to where we are and the knowledge base that we have here. This issue relates both HPE in general and to the technical products."
"The deployment of agents on new CI should be improved. There should be some kind of automation to directly deploy them from the console. It can maybe have some more AI functions because most of the other tools are going in that direction."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"I'm not aware of areas that need improvement."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"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."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 8th in Event Monitoring with 44 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. OpenText Operations Bridge is rated 7.8, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText Operations Bridge writes "Good event correlation capabilities, promotes a self-service approach to monitoring". 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". OpenText Operations Bridge is most compared with OpsRamp, BMC Helix Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security, IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and SolarWinds NPM. See our OpenText Operations Bridge vs. SCOM report.
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