SCOM Monitoring Tool for SCOM Server Management and Applications Alerts
One interface for extended SCOM monitoring across heterogeneous IT infrastructure
SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is built to extend the functionality of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to third-party and custom applications, VMware, and multi-vendor server hardware, all from one interface.
SAM’s SCOM management pack is designed to eliminate the need to buy and deploy multiple management packs from various vendors. By integrating SCOM with a more feature-rich server monitoring tool, you can extend the capabilities of Microsoft SCOM monitoring to include business-critical, non-Microsoft applications.
Out-of-the-box SCOM monitoring support
Adding SolarWinds SAM SCOM monitoring software to your environment can allow you to monitor your applications from one console without multiple management packs/add-ons.
SolarWinds SAM includes out-of-the-box templates for monitoring a range of non-Microsoft applications, including:
Help simplify your IT administration and troubleshooting by instantly viewing application health, performance metrics, dependent nodes, IP address, and more using the SCOM monitoring features in SAM.
Monitor virtually any custom and home-grown applications with easy-to-build templates
Creating custom application monitors in SCOM can be cumbersome and time-consuming. With the wizard included in SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor for SCOM server monitoring tool, it’s simple to create templates to monitor custom applications. You can also use the SAM custom app templates available for free from the SolarWinds THWACK® community.
SolarWinds SAM is also built to allow you to automatically discover and monitor performance metrics using WMI, SNMP, JMX, and VMware protocols. Once discovered, you can easily set baseline values for performance counters to receive custom alerts once a threshold reaches warning and critical levels.
In-depth SCOM monitoring of Microsoft applications
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor is designed to provide in-depth monitoring for Microsoft systems. The integrated AppInsight™ applications in SAM are designed to help you troubleshoot and solve complex performance issues with purpose-built templates to monitor:
- Microsoft Exchange for storage issues, mail queues, events, and critical processes and services
- SQL Server for resource contention, database status and capacity, and inefficient queries
- IIS for website availability, resource consumption, and response time
Gain a detailed SCOM monitoring tool for servers and databases
SAM performance metrics and alerts are also designed to be integrated in the System Center management console for centralized insights into your server and data center performance monitoring.
Ensure you have the detailed data and custom alerts you need by using SolarWinds SAM for your SCOM monitoring. For even deeper IT infrastructure insights, you can leverage the same SolarWinds SCOM management pack to integrate System Center with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, and Web Performance Monitor data for a comprehensive monitoring dashboard.
What is SCOM monitoring?
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.
How does SCOM monitoring work?
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.
Why is SCOM monitoring important?
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.
What does a SCOM monitoring tool do?
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.
How does SCOM monitoring work in SAM?
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.
- What is SCOM monitoring?
- How does SCOM monitoring work?
- Why is SCOM monitoring important?
- What does a SCOM monitoring tool do?
- How does SCOM monitoring work in SAM?
- Computer health
- Antivirus software
- Operating systems
- Server hardware
- Applications
- Packet loss
- Latency
What is SCOM monitoring?
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:
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.
"It was easy and intuitive to build customized application monitors. This took days to set up with SCOM, but took only a few clicks with SolarWinds. SolarWinds is significantly less expensive from a software and hardware perspective."
Jason Krisch
Manager, Technical Services
Carilion Clinic
Extend your SCOM monitoring capabilities
Server & Application Monitor
- Monitor both Microsoft and third-party applications and devices with a single management pack.
- Create custom templates to monitor homegrown applications with ease.
- See insights from across your network on a single easy-to-navigate UI.
Starts at $1,813
SAM, an Orion module, is built on the SolarWinds Platform
