We are looking at some products to do monitoring and notification for things
like Active Directory and Exchange. I'm sure there will be other uses as
well.
Right now I am looking at Orion Application Performance Monitor and SCOM. I
was wondering if you all have a preference and why. I am also
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From: Rob Bonfiglio [mailto:robbonfig...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:57 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Orion APM vs SCOM
We are looking
SCOM is the mutt's nuts as far as I am concernedintegrates nicely with
Citrix, AD, Exchange, Dell hardware, and just about most other (especially
MS) products out there, saves me having to look at about fifteen different
consoles and provides me with information about stuff I didn't even know
We are in the process of evaluating a few of the vendors in this area.
Specifically:
NetIQ AppManager
IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM)
HP Operations Manager
SCOM 2007
A lot of the functionality you need will affect what you get. For example, we
need something that will connect to our ticketing
a ticket request.
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From: Christopher Bodnar [mailto:christopher_bod...@glic.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:16 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: re: Orion APM vs SCOM
We are in the process of evaluating a few of the vendors in this area.
Specifically:
NetIQ
I would strongly advise against AppManager. One thing we learned was
that things were _always_ going to be better / fixed in the next
release. Very powerful product but after our last upgrade they could
never help diagnose why the reporting stuff failed automation and we
constantly had to kick
I'd suggest Spotlight on AD if monitoring AD and Exchange specific functions
like replication synchronization. Spotlight can also monitor your
Blackberry environment, if you have one. While MOM's the Cadillac of
monitoring it does come with a hefty price tag so I guess the main questions
for me
For right now we're looking at about 35 Windows servers. We have about 20
Unix servers, but I'm not sure that whatever we implement will be used on
the Unix servers.
In about 2 years we will be consolidating 4 other locations to our
location. This will mean taking on some of their hardware, but
