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."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 initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's not complex at all."
"We use the on-premises version to monitor our systems and manage emails. All our systems use Operations Bridge, especially the critical systems."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with everything."
"The Performance Manager provides great insight into our systems' performance."
"I find the Micro Focus Operations Bridge dashboard valuable, including its instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure."
"The integration with the ticketing tool makes sure that there is a record for every issue."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The price is quite expensive, and because of this, we may try another solution."
"Implementation could be improved."
"The setup process can get a little bit complex."
"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 service takes a very long time to start and it requires a lot of resources."
"The solution is overall "heavy", requiring multiple servers, even without HA."
"pology-based event correlation does not work well with NNM events."
"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."
"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 dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"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."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The price could be improved."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
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 SolarWinds NPM. See our OpenText Operations Bridge vs. SCOM report.
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