SCOM Monitoring Tool for SCOM Server Management and Applications Alerts

SCOM monitoring is based on the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). SCOM is a suite of software used for monitoring, configuring, deploying, and managing the many components of a Windows-based IT infrastructure. SCOM is used by IT departments to monitor the performance and availability of applications, devices, and servers simultaneously, and display the findings on a single console.

SCOM monitoring provides information about the status of different aspects of your IT environment, such as:

• Computer health
• Antivirus software
• Operating systems
• Server hardware
• Applications
• Packet loss
• Latency

Administrators can configure which objects they want monitored and set the thresholds to trigger SCOM alerts, so you can discover issues as they arise. 

While SCOM is a powerful tool, you may need to purchase and deploy many different SCOM management packs to monitor third-party applications and devices not from Microsoft. This means non-Microsoft technologies like Oracle, VMware, Citrix, and SAP require their own System Center management pack. The result is SCOM monitoring can become overly complicated as IT administrators try to navigate the many packs they need to purchase, manage, deploy, and maintain.

SCOM monitoring, which includes SCOM application monitoring as well as server monitoring, is based around the use of agents monitoring and collecting data from Windows-based devices. An installed SCOM agent will watch for specific alerts and events created by applications. When an alert occurs and is detected, the agent sends information to a central SCOM server. As soon as alerts arrive, the server can apply filtering rules to help determine the severity of the alert and can trigger a predetermined response.

With this basic system applied to each device on a network, SCOM monitoring can allow for an administrator to monitor devices, servers, and applications all from one centralized console. 

SCOM monitoring is important because it can provide insights about what is happening in your infrastructure. With SCOM monitoring, IT administrators can help ensure the availability and performance of the critical services and applications businesses rely on.

The larger the environment, the more difficult manual monitoring of your network becomes. With a SCOM monitoring tool, this task is simplified. Administrators can see insights from SCOM application performance monitoring, server monitoring, and device monitoring happening across the network all on one console.

SCOM management packs are at the core of SCOM monitoring tools. The management packs hold all the information and settings necessary for monitoring products or services. With the addition of System Center management packs, SCOM can provide insights about everything from hardware health to the state of web transactions.

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is designed to take SCOM monitoring to the next level by extending SCOM capabilities to non-Microsoft devices and applications in both physical and virtual environments. With the single SCOM management pack in SAM, you can monitor third-party devices and custom applications without needing to manage and deploy individual management packs for each one. You can also integrate SAM performance metrics and alerts into System Center to gain deeper monitoring insights.

By adding SAM to your SCOM environment, you can monitor applications from one console without needing to add multiple management packs. SolarWinds SAM is designed to help you gain the best insights into your IT infrastructure performance no matter the size of your business, with more than 1200 pre-built monitoring templates available.