SCOM Implementation Team
Starlen Sass
Information Technology Consultant at University of the Witwatersrand
The solution's deployment takes around two to three days.
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Richard McLaughlin
Vocational Coordinator at UMMS
We deployed in-house, but we did leverage Microsoft.
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Hussein Taha
IT Enterprise System Administrator at Misr Technology Services
The implementation was completed in-house.
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Mohammed Badowi
IT system manager at NBO
The installation was done by our company with an in-house team. We did not need help from the vendor or an integrator except for some basic questions.
We do maintenance as required also in-house and we handle the upgrades from one version to another version. All those maintenance details are managed by the system admin team.
Robert Hedblom
Cloud and Solution Principal Architect at sumNERV Provider AB
It took one day to deploy SCOM.
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SergiusNkomadu
Service manager at Signal Alliance LTD
I implemented SCOM by myself.
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it_user937584
Manager, Principle Systems Engineer and team lead at BCX
We work on our own systems and installations.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
I handled the installation myself. I did not use a consultant or integrator. I was able to handle it in-house.
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Morne' O'Kennedy
Lead specialist at OKCIUS (Pty) Ltd
All of the companies that I have worked for have handled it internally.
One person is suitable for deployment, although this again depends on the company and the environment. If one person is in charge of the SQL environment and the hypervisors then they can do it alone. Obviously, if other departments are in charge of these things then they will need to be relied upon, but generally, it can be done with one person.
With respect to maintaining the solution, a team of three people, with two juniors and one senior, might be ideal.
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reviewer1423482
Group CIO at a import and exporter with 51-200 employees
We handled the setup ourselves in-house.
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Programmer Analyst at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
Our own team installed the system in-house.
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Amit Ben-Horin
Monitoring Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
We used a field engineer from Microsoft to assist us at the beginning. They also helped us out from time to time to upgrade the system, although I took care of the last installation of patches myself.
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Owner at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have a consultant.
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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It was an in-house implementation. If we do go through vendor it sholud not take more than 5 days to make SCOM up and running well with the baseline from Microsoft.
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Helder Valente
Infrastructure and Networks at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We completed the installation ourselves.
It took one week to deploy and customize it.
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Vinicius Ribeiro
Head of IT South America at Compass Minerals
We use a full-service Microsoft partner in Brazil.
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Senior Officer in IT management systems department with 501-1,000 employees
We implemented SCOM by ourselves and the main advice is as simple as that: Follow the instructions, pay attention to details, be generous with SQL Server resources (disk) which looks like the main bottleneck of all product.
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IT analyst - NOC at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Implementation was done in-house.
Design well in advance and the planning plays the most vital role. Implementation is simple.
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Advanced Systems Engineer - 3 at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
I implemented SCOM on my own. You can use SCOM C# SDK or VSAE or GUI to implement SCOM management packs.
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Group IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was done in-house.
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Enginsys677
Snr Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I handled the design and implementation of this solution for the company.
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IT Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
In both cases I was involved in, we had a consultant work with the internal team to deploy and configure SCOM. As I mentioned before, implementation can be tricky, and it’s mainly because there are a lot of smaller details to pay attention to (specific user & group creations, proper installation order, etc.). So I would advise bringing in a consultant to do initial deployment if you don’t have the experience in-house.
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SCOM Senior Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
I am a contractor and work exclusively with SCOM, I have implemented at many different companies, including MS, so it’s pretty easy for me to come into an environment and know what needs to be done. Probably the most important part of the design that most companies forget about is the processes that need to be in place before you stand it up. What are we going to monitor? How are we going to handle requests for custom monitoring, and tuning or disabling of existing monitoring and collections? Who and where are we sending alerts? Are they aware of what is going to be coming at them? Did you sit down with each and every group that you are installing MPs for and go over the monitoring and collections to see what they want and don’t want? DBA’s, for example, don’t want to see endless alerts about SPNs, or even permissions. Get this worked out before installing the SQL package and the DBA group will be much easier to work with. How are you going to route alerts, are you going to send them to a ticketing application? If so you have to decide how to do that. Are you going to send all alerts and have the ticketing system decide what is an actionable alert, or are you going to create subscriptions in SCOM to handle it?
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reviewer1260267
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I deploy this product myself.
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IT operation manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The setup was implemented with help from our internal colleagues.
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Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Initially we implemented on our own. But for a couple of integrations, we used integrators for support, especially for particular application servers and installations, Exchange and partially for SQL Server.
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SCOM Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are a consultancy for the System Center products and I specialize in SCOM. I usually work with one or more people at a customer to get the basics done and installed and next work with the rest of the organization to make it friendly and accessible for all.
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NOC Senior Technical Shift Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It was implemented in-house. A group of engineers designed, planned and implemented SCOM 2012. Their level of expertise was very high and they were MCSE engineers.
it_user370203
Microsoft System Center Consultant with 10,001+ employees
My very first implementation of SCOM 2007 was togheter with Microsoft, other than that I've done the implementations myself.
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Chief of Monitoring Service at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We implemented our solution a very long time ago, and have had a few upgrades. Now, I think it is quite easy to implement this product without a vendor team.
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QA Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We implemented it in-house. Follow the rules and it will work.
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IT Administrator & Major Incident Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
A third party vendor set-up SCOM before I started in this position so I cannot comment.
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IT Consultant with 501-1,000 employees
We are a service provider company and we implemented SCOM over 100 times at different customer premises, using all different versions of SCOM.
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Solution Architect at a cloud provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have done both types of implementations in the past. See below.
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Manager: Monitoring, Performance, and Availability at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We installed SCOM with an in-house team. If you have a good relationship with Microsoft, they will have chalk talk conversations with you and tell what their best practice would be. After we had these talks, we installed and deployed ourselves.
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Infrastructure Consultant, specialist SCCM, SCOM, VMware, Hyper-V at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I'm a SCOM consultant so I can tell you that proper configuration and tuning, development of custom MP (management pack) for custom needs a lot of effort and is not cheap at all :).
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Senior Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
I have experienced both as part of in-house team and also as part of the vendor team. The vendor was experienced in the deployment and management of SCOM and have been since the early versions of it.
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Head of ICT at JAROLA
Initial setup was done with a bit of additional support and then we added more and more services.
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Technical IT Manager at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It was all done in-house.
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Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
All the implementation has been done by an in-house team.
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it_user76893
Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Most of the time we implement in house and reach out to experts in our organization in case any assistance is required.
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