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."Purely, its flexibility is the most valuable aspect. It is hugely configurable."
"We use the on-premises version to monitor our systems and manage emails. All our systems use Operations Bridge, especially the critical systems."
"It's a very good product overall."
"It has greatly reduced the number and duration of outages as support teams are notified immediately when something goes wrong or even before something breaks."
"The preloaded rules and ways to monitor your systems are a must."
"You can create an application topology that shows relationships between different components."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's not complex at all."
"The broad integration possibilities, I'd say, with any kind of product, are probably the most valuable feature."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"Implementation could be improved."
"What needs improvement in Micro Focus Operations Bridge is its resource heaviness because you need many resources to deploy and support it. It's a good solution for larger organizations, but for small businesses, not so much."
"The solution is overall "heavy", requiring multiple servers, even without HA."
"The pricing is a bit expensive for smaller companies."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"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."
"I'm not aware of areas that need improvement."
"The initial setup of this tool is complex for people who lack experience with it."
"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."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
"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."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"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."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"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."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 8th in Event Monitoring with 44 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 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, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server and PagerDuty Operations Cloud, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and New Relic. See our OpenText Operations Bridge vs. SCOM report.
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