SCOM Room for Improvement
Starlen Sass
Information Technology Consultant at University of the Witwatersrand
The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise. It sufficiently covers the on premise modules, but more work needs to be done in terms of monitoring various nodes of the cloud-based environment.
Since SCOM is a vast solution that covers so many areas, it would be nice to get an actual certification. I know Microsoft has discontinued certification on the SCOM and SCCM products.
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GovindarajV
Systems Engineer II at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
In terms of improvement, direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial.
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Richard McLaughlin
Vocational Coordinator at UMMS
The SCOM dashboards have room for improvement. They've been improving them in iterations slowly and surely. 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. I would suggest either using the dashboard and management packs to their full potential, so we don't have to go out to third-party vendors to install additional features, or allow them to be truncated during installation so that we're not wasting resources.
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March 2024
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Philippe Roussel
Delivery Manager at Inetum
Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution. We can explore alternatives through certain products from Azure, but it may still be difficult to generate reports without specific development.
In short, I feel the reporting feature of the solution needs to be better since it is very difficult to have a report of the best quality.
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Hussein Taha
IT Enterprise System Administrator at Misr Technology Services
There is no room for update or enhancement in SCOM because Microsoft has retired it as an on-prem solution and moved it to the cloud. The current version will be the last on-prem given Microsoft's push to move all their solutions to the cloud.
The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult. Another dimension that makes SCOM difficult is the number of components. The reporting server, the database, and the two components of the database (operational and warehouse) are all difficult to work with. This is why SCOM is a difficult solution to implement, configure, and troubleshoot.
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AJITHH G
Solution Engineer at AppSmart
There could be more integration of SIM in the solution.
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YasirAhmed
Managed Services - System engineer at Brennan IT Pty Ltd.
Application monitoring must be improved. The product must provide support for monitoring virtualization. It is a complex tool. It is not easy to configure it.
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Mohammed Badowi
IT system manager at NBO
The dashboard is one place where the product can be improved. We finally needed to get a customized dashboard from the NOC (Network Operation Center) team. The dashboard that was included with the product just did not do what we wanted it to do.
I am not sure, exactly, what should be included with future releases. There are already a lot of features there in the product. The main thing I can suggest is that Microsoft also provides management packs for monitoring third-party products with the product. If that were included with SCOM, that would make the product even greater. For example, to monitor an Oracle database, you need to look around to get a management pack separately. It could just be included instead.
You can monitor any non-Microsoft product with Microsoft SCOM if you have the management pack for that product. You need to purchase that management pack. You can get them sometimes from Microsoft and other times from the third-party vendor.
Amar Sharma
Monitoring Systems Engineer at Monster Worldwide
The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage. Currently, a lot of people do not use SCOM because it is limited to strictly being on-premises, and many organizations are moving to the cloud.
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Bill Watts
Sr. Systems Engineer at Arapahoe County Government
I would like to see them improve their network monitoring.
We use Solar Winds, and it has a direct interface into SCOM. We can see all the Solar Winds dashboards from the SCOM interface, which is nice to have.
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Robert Hedblom
Cloud and Solution Principal Architect at sumNERV Provider AB
The solution’s initial setup is difficult. SCOM should include more in-depth trend analysis.
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SergiusNkomadu
Service manager at Signal Alliance LTD
SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product. In the next release, SCOM should add more and simpler integration with other software.
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it_user937584
Manager, Principle Systems Engineer and team lead at BCX
Even though I think there are ways that this product is superior to most other solutions on the market, there are quite a few things that it does not do alone. This is where the product can be improved. One of the facets is in network monitoring. In fact, it can use quite a lot of improvement in that area. That's where products — like CA Technologies Performance Manager — are much better. You can do a lot with it that you can not with the reporting in SCOM. However overall that CA product is not as well rounded and complete.
The Scrum files that you set up can be made better. For example, you may want accounts that have access to the SCOM console to have more granular access. For example, you may have a situation where you prefer that only certain engineers will be able to add agents to the server — and only the server. But you can't set up the permissions that are this granular. Likewise, it may be that you want to assign someone the right to do threshold changes or to the environment of certain places of certain management groups. It is not part of the standard solution.
With other monitoring tools, you have the ability to set the permissions granularly, which SCOM actually doesn't do. So I hope that they would add that feature and support granularity. There are other ways in which to do it, but if you can do it in the monitoring tool itself and in the administration, then it'll make things much easier and make it a far more complete, unified solution.
One more thing would be better application monitoring. Products like AppDynamics do that very well and exceed the capabilities of SCOM. What I think I would like to see is for SCOM to be more of a complete end-to-end solution so there is no need to look to other solutions or work outside of the singular product.
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OmidKoushki
Solution Architect at KIAN company
In recent years, no doubt it's improved.
That said, at the time I used it, System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already.
The initial setup should be a bit more straightforward.
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Morne' O'Kennedy
Lead specialist at OKCIUS (Pty) Ltd
The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved.
I would like to see more focus on application monitoring in the next release of this solution.
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Usama Mustafa
Solutions specialist lead at Jaffer Business Systems
Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement. I got a response from the TCS that whenever they try to patch or throw some updates to any of the computers, it takes a lot of time to apply and to get the job done on the recipient. As the system is very slow, people only opt for it a little and instead go for solutions like Ivanti and other third-party solutions.
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reviewer1423482
Group CIO at a import and exporter with 51-200 employees
We haven't upgraded the SCOM version yet, however, there's a few of the versions where we would like to have improvements in terms of more visibility into some of the details of the device.
We'd like to be able to configure and push more granular policies into the device.
Using iOS is an issue for us. It's not as deep as the Microsoft offering. We'd like more detail in the iOS version. They also need more advanced iOS support.
There is a lack of documentation.
We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve. We'd like more help in planning and training.
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Programmer Analyst at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
Lacks common network monitoring features found in alternatives.
Poor support for non-Microsoft systems at this time.
User dashboards require posting to Microsoft SharePoint Server.
Very high administrative burden, requires constant maintenance.
Application transaction monitoring only available in .NET applications on IIS.
Limited analytics capabilities (you must build your own in SSRS)
Full monitoring capabilities requires integration with the rest of the Microsoft System Center suite
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Amit Ben-Horin
Monitoring Systems Administrator at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved. It is not simple to get a report. Even the monitoring people, who are supposed to be familiar with the system, are having difficulty generating specific reports. Also, the information in the reports is not user-friendly.
The console is very slow, and not user-friendly. Even the browser for the web console is not very friendly, and I would not consider it useful compared to other ones that I have worked with.
I would like to see the inclusion of more monitoring templates, where I would just have to enter variables and nothing more. If there were a template then it would save time, rather than have to create it again.
The monitoring of Linux servers needs to be improved because it is hard compared to other products.
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reviewer1647066
DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
What we need in SCOM is the ability to share a lab console with our customers so that our end-users or customers in SCOM can navigate by themselves. It could be similar to how we use DRDG in PRTG where all of our customers can set up their monitoring on their own. Right now, in SCOM, only our team can set up their monitoring.
The initial setup could be easier.
The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface.
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Owner at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
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reviewer1566126
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release.
If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great.
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Molatelo Mashabela
IT SEC at a government with 10,001+ employees
I don't really think anything needs to be improved. We will soon be trying to use it with Microsoft to log analytics and that will be cloud-based.
I would like to have the ability to schedule my reports via email or through SMS.
Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved.
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System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
The System Centre Operations Manager (SCOM) is great at alerting you when something breaks. It's not so great at reporting. For all of the information that SCOM collects and stores it has no good way to put this information into a useful reporting format. For example, it would be fantastic to be able to have a historic view of the memory usage on a server to assist with pinpointing the root cause to the issue.
Also, SCOM comes with many built-in monitors. Anything that isn't already there can often be add by installing a management pack. These management packs include a heap of monitors for a specific item (EG exchange). The main issue is that by default most items alerts are enabled. This means when you install SCOM or add a management pack you will need to tweak all of the sensors or you will be over run with alerts. It's a turn off what you don't want situation rather than, the more sensible, turn on what you do want.
it_user374592
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
SCOM can move on to provide more on Cloud, Big Data, container and docks monitoring. Also, APM monitoring is really lacking in SCOM and they really need to look into this to keep up their strength in the IT market.
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Helder Valente
Infrastructure and Networks at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The management of the servers could be better.
Also, the user interface could be improved.
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Vinicius Ribeiro
Head of IT South America at Compass Minerals
This product is not easy to use.
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.
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Senior SCOM Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This product has room for improvement in the way that it is administered. It doesn’t give you details on Monitors/Rules as far as what is being monitored and how it’s being monitored. It also can improve on letting you know what is being monitored on each system that it monitors.
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Senior System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable.
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Senior Officer in IT management systems department with 501-1,000 employees
As I see in the SC 2016 roadmap, the product development team understands that main improvements for product should be: cross-platform and network monitoring features including stability and extensibility, wider support of dashboarding and cool widgets, the web console should be greatly improved, along with more handy development tools including custom widget development.
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paul zuber
Operating Partner at Thoma Bravo LLC with 51-200 employees
I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes.
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IT analyst - NOC at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I’d like to see cross-platform support that would make SCOM a single enterprise monitoring application.
I’d also like to see support for direct monitoring of Oracle databases, DB2, etc.
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Advanced Systems Engineer - 3 at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
SCOM needs improvement in phasing out the Silverlight based web platform and instead provide web access for all browsers using HTML5 probably. The API and the knowledge base needs to be improved by Microsoft.
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Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
In the world that is monitoring, sometimes the decision makers want to see and hear all the issues that may occur during business hours (as well as out of hours) and (rightly or wrongly) SCOM gives you exactly that! Its revered to as an "Alert Storm". SCOM uses something called "Management Packs" and that is where the alerts come from, but, managing these can be a little convoluted to say the least, I'd like to see these made a little simpler but still keep the same functionality, basically these management packs need to become a little more user friendly. Almost always, these alert storms can put IT managers and operators off the product and give the impression that everything is broken or not working properly, so making them easier to work with will help SCOM administrators (especially if they are new to SCOM) manage and understand what the product is showing them.
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Enginsys677
Snr Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically. In fact, it should have better end-to-end monitoring from the physical layer up to the software.
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IT Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
In some ways, SCOM is a double-edged sword. It can do so much, even by default -- monitoring and alerting of everything from Windows servers and applications, to Linux machines, to network devices including routers and switches. However, because of this, you can get overwhelmed fairly quickly, and if left unchecked, you’ll get too many alerts for too many objects. When that happens, your team starts ignoring alerts because they simply can’t get to them all, and that is just as bad as not having any alerting at all.
For SCOM to be really great, I’d love to see Microsoft come up with a quick and simple way to enable common critical monitoring and alerts by default. Then, as you get more familiar with SCOM, you can gradually tweak and enable the more customized and intricate stuff.
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Aymen Dridi
Systems and Virtualization Engineer at Altelios Technology Group
In a future release, they should add email notification alerts.
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reviewer1505493
Systems Engineer at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
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.
I think certain things, like management packs, should also be built into the solution. They should be built into your installation or deployment so you can decide whether to keep them in the list of products that you want. You can just unpick the ones you don't want and install this with the latest management technologies. Installing the solution and then looking for management technologies and custom solutions, like your HP and the hardware, you have to go through an HPE port file to download that management pack and add it. I think their whole packaging of the software can be made a little bit easier.
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SCOM Senior Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
There are always areas that can be improved in any product, but overall SCOM has matured very well over the years and appears to be at the point where only minor improvements need to be made. Since MS sends out updates regularly, these improvements can be made on the fly with very little interruption in service.
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reviewer1417944
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring.
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reviewer1260267
Senior System Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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reviewer1381938
IT operation manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Some checking issues could be improved. Checking some activators. It would help if we could export in some cases, because it may be that some people want to move the screen from the book to share reports. If it was possible to embed it in a report, that would be good. In other words, I would like more customized reports.
I would definitely like to see the ability to go through the total life-cycle in the next release of SCOM, to cover everything. But in some cases, especially retrospectively, this is not happening, or not happening well. I'd like to see the retrospective outcome in the knowledge base. It would be good if it could accommodate some learning out of the box, together with information from the recording session. There are levels to it, but some of the records we keep often go to quickly deliver the project. But in most cases, they skip the retrospective part and lessons learned. It would be good to declare something in the knowledge base where people can easily put it and access their input of lessons learned. We've yet to see that in previous projects. But I'd like to get to the level where whenever a new person starts a project, they could visit the knowledge base and the retrospective section, and get some knowledge out of the box, which was not covered in the process.
On a scale of one to ten I would definitely rate SCOM an 8. That's because people should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately.
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Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
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. We have not seen the collected data so it makes it challenging.
I would also say that agentless monitoring needs to be included. Something like this is pretty difficult if you don't have a particular agent.
It's not so easy if you have to use something like a proxy to implement a work around. They should include a solution for discovering devices and something like an agentless monitoring solution for a particular device - just to understand what your environment looks like.
I'm not saying that they should provide all the information for the device, but at least availability and partial monitoring based on SNMP. Because I know that other solutions have it. Maybe Service Center Operations Manager has already provided those things in the latest version, but I'm not familiar with it.
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Manager of Operations at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Need work to minimize the amount of events transferred to Incident systems.
High License cost for the 2007 version.
Super High cost for the 2012 version due to change to a CPU based.
Need lots of HW to handle 1000 servers application operations
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it_user375540
SCOM Specialist at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Areas for improvement in my opinion are the resource footprint of the SCOM infrastructure side, the web console (drop Silverlight please!) and a few of the management packs.
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NOC Senior Technical Shift Leader at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Unfortunately, when you need to monitor member servers which are not joined to the same domain as the SCOM servers, you need to go through the certificate route (so that you can have the required trust through the certificate). This is very time consuming and very prone to error.
it_user370203
Microsoft System Center Consultant with 10,001+ employees
Reporting could be improved, you get many reports out-of-box but they can be difficult to interpret and drill down into. You can build custom reports in report builder or Visual Studio but both alternatives are difficult to use, not well documented and requires extensive knowledge of the SCOM databases.
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reviewer1412814
SCOM Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees
SCOM has a lot of powerful features but it is not simple to use. We are using a third-party presentation layer to show all of the data because SCOM does not show it in a very nice and easy way. It is not an interface that you would expect to see in 2020.
The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified. For example, many of the things that we do require clicking through many menus.
Maintaining this product is very hard to do.
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Endre Németh
Senior IT System Owner and System Management Specialist at MOL Plc
The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved. The application monitoring feature is also poor.
I would also like to see better training materials. What we currently have is very light.
The ability to connect to cloud-based solutions would be very good.
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Chief of Monitoring Service at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
At this point, only monitoring a network device is not good enough. But in the new version (it is a release candidate now), this function will be improved.
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QA Engineer at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It would be nice to see the old MP Designer come back as you could quickly design and build a MP without a deep understanding of the XML code behind it.
Having to use Visual Studio requires a much deeper understanding of MP coding and limits the audience base capable of building custom monitoring Management Packs.
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Edgar Parra
Senior Technical Consultant at The Instillery
The interface doesn't provide any graphical view of your topology, you only see a bunch of alerts, monitors, etc. Humans are visual creatures and if you can see at a glance what's going on in your infrastructure, that's added value to me.
You can create dashboards to create views of your infrastructure but I feel that this should come out of the box.
It generates a lot of false positives, probably due to misconfiguration or because it doesn't have an intuitive algorithm to pinpoint the root of the problem
You need to add a lot of management packs in order to manage different devices, instead of SCOM containing these already out of the box, I'm talking about vendors such as Citrix and VMware. Even Exchange and SQL Server monitors are not configured out of the box, it requires configuration. This should come straight away configured for you, especially as SQL Server and Exchange are Microsoft products!
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IT Administrator & Major Incident Coordinator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Having the ability for it to be integrated with third party ticket systems or other monitoring software would make an even better tool for people like myself within administrative or monitoring positions.
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IT Consultant with 501-1,000 employees
Customizing management packs, fine tuning of alerts, monitors and creating new tasks reflected on the required group of servers.
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Solution Architect at a cloud provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would like to see true multi-tenancy support. When it comes to service provider type of customers, it's quite difficult to have a complete monitoring view for different tenants. The System Center suite is not designed for true multi-tenancy overall. But SCOM is also lacking some multi-tenant environment requirements.
View full review »it_user337107
Manager: Monitoring, Performance, and Availability at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
SCOM agents have a heavy footprint. Would like a lighter, more-efficient footprint. It takes a developer’s mindset to fully utilize SCOM’s potential. I would like easier deployment of MP and custom monitors.
View full review »it_user372657
Infrastructure Consultant, specialist SCCM, SCOM, VMware, Hyper-V at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Dashboards, Dashboards, Dashboards. It will be nice to have the power of Live Maps with the built in dashboards.
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Senior Technical Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
GUI performance is the one aspect where I can see that improvement on it will make customers happy.
3rd Party Plugins for SCOM are also great, but some of them are quite expensive to implement due to the depth of function they provide. Maybe Microsoft should integrate the basic functionalities of some of them.
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BI Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I feel that the stability of the tool has room for improvement and I would like to see that in the next version.
View full review »it_user4851
Infrastructure Expert at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Very expensive now that you are forced to buy entire System Center suite, although comparable to other monitoring solutions that include basic APM. Dashboards are pretty weak.
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it_user1063098
Head of ICT at JAROLA
Price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved.
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Technical IT Manager at a engineering company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Dashboarding and application performance management.
View full review »it_user352575
Senior IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Microsoft SCOM can be improved about the way it is presented. Microsoft needs to train more people about how to sell SCOM (and other System Center family products) because there are a lot of emerging technologies that are replacing Microsoft. The vendor could create better training campaigns to avoid their replacement by other emerging technologies.
View full review »it_user402498
Director at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
The dashboard is still not so great and, most of the time, a third-party tool is required for presentation. There is a lot of room for improvement here.
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Federico Maximiliano Ostrit
Windows Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
The console is a point to improve, because it is very heavy and a web console should be in HTML5.
View full review »it_user382458
Senior Production Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I think that it should be made possible to monitor private systems, which are developed in each company. In my opinion, this option already exists in SCOM 2012, however we have a lack of resources to develop this.
it_user393687
IT Technical Support at a local government with 501-1,000 employees
The configuration, especially for alerts, are somewhat lengthy.
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Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Monitoring non Microsoft products and 3rd party applications.
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reviewer1404762
IT Officer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department. We are currently looking for a plugin for the dashboard to assist in monitoring the dashboard in the SCOM server.
At this time, SCOM is only being used in our IT department. Digital console is not available to our users, management team, or senior persons, and they are not allowed their own login to see what is happening in the network system. The only access that we have is to dump the reports to provide them to our management team.
It doesn't monitor the Fortinet devices well.
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Enginefra677
IT Infrastructure Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems. The Unix management functionality is not yet truly mature.
The reporting capability needs improvement.
This solution would be improved if the management functionality were expanded to include other products, such as WebSphere MQ.
View full review »it_user539793
IT Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Both SCOM and WhatsUp Gold could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards.
View full review »it_user140667
Principal ICT Architect with 501-1,000 employees
If it could have SysLog capabilities and if the Microsoft Management Packs were out of the box instead of a separate download.
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it_user76893
Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Too small of a scope in reports, need to improve a lot.
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