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."The preloaded rules and ways to monitor your systems are a must."
"Flexible dashboard with the availability of widgets."
"OpsBridge has good event correlation facilities and root-cause identification algorithms."
"The Performance Manager provides great insight into our systems' performance."
"It allows us to build dashboards for individual parts of the business. Our team members appreciate that they can just get a view of their part of the world without having to worry about anyone else's."
"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 integration with the ticketing tool makes sure that there is a record for every issue."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"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."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"The stability has been great."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It is a very complicated product. It's difficult to manage. Nowadays, products are very easy to manage, deploy, and integrate, but Operations Bridge is very complicated to manage."
"The price is quite expensive, and because of this, we may try another solution."
"The setup process can get a little bit complex."
"I know that in the next version, X1005, they're moving to more graphical overviews, which should help our senior managers."
"pology-based event correlation does not work well with NNM events."
"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 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."
"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."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"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."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
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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