We performed a comparison between OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence 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."Valuable features include: SSM, which provides for orderly startup and shutdown; OPSLOG, which enables filtering by message-id, and/or jobname(s); Rules, as OPS/REXX interface streamlines deployment, interfaces easily with JES2 and z/OS."
"Stability is probably the best out-of-the-box. Put it in, set it up, and you leave it alone. It works wonderfully."
"It's very secure, because it's a legacy application."
"If something breaks and it goes down when it's not supposed to, automation brings it right back up."
"Their technical support is incredible, immediately responsive, and even if it is not updated to Level 2 support sometimes, they chip in providing more detailed answers and options to fix the problem."
"It alerts the operators when it is time to repair the communications and the IPLs."
"Because we can define complex commands, the training of new operators is quicker. We can also put checks in place, that will prevent user errors."
"It's a very stable product. I very much like the SSM stuff in it. The rules engine, it's awesome."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
"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."
"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script."
"It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process."
"It definitely needs more web-based interface, to be more mobile-open. More APIs, more open source to it."
"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."
"Some of the command sequences are too long."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"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 console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"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."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"I would like to see them improve their network monitoring."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
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OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence is ranked 14th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 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 and BMC TrueSight Operations Management, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence vs. SCOM report.
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