Microsoft SCOM
Integrated and Enhanced with Exoprise
What is Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a component of the broader Microsoft System Center suite. It’s designed for monitoring application and server performance and health. SCOM provides a collection and management console for a comprehensive view of the IT environment. This enables IT administrators to proactively identify and address issues before they impact organizational operations.
SCOM System Installation, Maintenance and Monitoring
SCOM is agile and highly customizable; however, System Center does have limitations and falls short in certain critical areas:
- It can be costly when monitoring only a few devices by small to medium-sized organizations.
- There is a steep learning curve and hefty hardware requirements, along with management overhead to maintain and operate SCOM well.
- Depending on the Microsoft-based servers and applications, numerous additional components or “packs” are required.
- The latest version just tests Graph APIs, which don’t tell you what a real-user experiences when accessing Exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, or other underlying services.
- The Microsoft 365 Management Pack doesn’t test the same actual services. It’s just good for testing tenant uptime, and barely at that.
Configuring SCOM can be overwhelming, especially when
it comes to monitoring SaaS apps.
Exoprise is easy to deploy, you can do it in 5 minutes
Exoprise Enhances System Center Operations Manager
Exoprise customers utilizing SCOM benefit from relying on both tools. SCOM is typically deployed to monitor Microsoft application server roles while Exoprise is used to monitor SaaS, Web, UCaaS, endpoints, and business critical suites like ALL of Microsoft 365. Other areas where Exoprise extends and enhances Microsoft SCOM include:
Synthetics + Real User Monitoring Integrated into SCOM
CloudReady synthetic monitoring integrates with Microsoft SCOM for web and network resource availability. It offers optimal monitoring for Microsoft 365, covering core apps, services, and network dependencies.
Exoprise synthetics extend beyond Microsoft Services to on-premises installations, providing proactive problem detection. Additionally, Exoprise offers lower-level network sensors for UDP, TCPIP, VoIP, and more.
Service Watch, Exoprise’s Digital Experience Monitoring platform, deployed to end-user devices, provides comprehensive network metrics and SaaS/UCaaS telemetry. Combining proactive synthetic monitoring with full coverage for every endpoint, OS, and work environment.
Service Watch captures TCP and UDP traffic of applications in use, allowing you to drill into application information when users experience issues, identifying the cause.
Exoprise Proactive and RUM Alarms Integrated into SCOM
Exoprise alarms can be integrated and distributed via SCOM for proactive notifications into a Network Operations Center. Exoprise alarms are distributed and highly available in any SCOM endpoint for elevation to NOC screens.
Exoprise notifications can be multiplexed into ServiceNow, Webhooks, Email Hooks, Azure Monitor and SCOM for integration with any runbook or process workflow.
Exoprise Can Help
Whether SCOM is the current monitoring solution and IT teams are looking to expand their monitoring capabilities, Exoprise solutions can help. By combining CloudReady synthetics with Service Watch real-user monitoring, organizations can get ahead of outages and ensure the end users’ experience isn’t diminished. Don’t believe us?