Just my opinion as someone who has tangled with SCOM recently. You can do a whole lot with Ops Mgr (a WHOLE LOT), but if short learning curve and friendly GUI are two of your pre-reqs - you may want to look elsewhere. If you can dedicate some time and training to learning it - it is a cool product.
Personally, I'm still a fan of IPMonitor. I believe Solar Winds owns them now. IPMonitor did everything I asked of it and was an easy set up with a clean GUI. It did not provide native insight into MS applications - it primarily monitored ping and service availability, but you could have it watch and alert based on event log entries. If we did not already have a large investment in SCOM here, I would be seriously looking into bringing IPMonitor on board. Jim Holmgren Manager of Server Engineering XLHealth Corporation The Warehouse at Camden Yards 351 West Camden Street, Suite 100 Baltimore, MD 21201 410.625.2200 (main) 443.524.8573 (direct) 443-506.2400 (cell) www.xlhealth.com From: helpdesk UK [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Monitoring Software Hello We are looking to buy a monitoring software for end to end monitoring. We are not sure if MS Operations Manager is the best choice out of the box ? or any other products you have experience with I feel the product has to be enterprise level ? Central Data center + local site offices too...... Monitoring services for example: 1. Exchange 2010 2. SQL monitoring. 3. Windows 2008 R2 4. Vmware 4.x 5. network links i..e mix of switches of HP L3 + Cisco 6500..... 6. Bandwidth monitoring on interfaces if we have the need for it and prepare web graphs (mrtg like ) 7. Web services.. 8. Some concerns: ----------------------- 1. On site staff are not very highly skilled so the more GUI friendly the better..... :) cheers John ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and/or protected health information. Under the Federal Law (HIPAA), the intended recipient is obligated to keep this information secure and confidential. Any disclosure to third parties without authorization from the member of as permitted by law is prohibited and punishable under Federal Law. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. NOTA DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este facsímile, incluyendo lo adjunto, es para el uso exclusivo del destinatario(s) y puede contener información confidencial y/o información protegida de salud. En virtud de la Ley Federal (HIPAA), el destinatario tiene la obligación de mantener esta información segura y confidencial. Cualquier divulgación a terceros sin la autorización de los miembros de lo permitido por la ley está prohibido y penado en virtud de la Ley Federal. Si usted no es el destinatario, por favor, póngase en contacto con el remitente por teléfono y destruir todas las copias del mensaje original ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
