We performed a comparison between OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, ServiceNow, Microsoft and others in Event Monitoring."If something breaks and it goes down when it's not supposed to, automation brings it right back up."
"It allows us to respond faster to issues. If there are issues that come out, we're able to capture a message and alert somebody about it."
"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."
"It reduces the number of repetitive motions required by a human to respond to the system."
"The follow-up surprised me. Making sure that I am happy with what I have gone to them on. They will call after I have made changes and verify that I am happy with the changes that I did have to make. If it did not fix the complete problem, they go back over it until I am satisfied."
"It's very flexible. You can customize what you need to, which is good. For example, you can do your own coding inside the tool, make your own scripting tooling."
"It's a very stable product. I very much like the SSM stuff in it. The rules engine, it's awesome."
"The stability has been great."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"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."
"Performing a stop/restart of OPS/MVS could be a little smoother. Without special coding, some undesired tasks will be started and some necessary tasks will be stopped if we have to bounce OPS/MVS during the day."
"Some of the command sequences are too long."
"It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process."
"Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions."
"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."
"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."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"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 interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
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OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 14th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 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, IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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