topic Re: OCUM vs SCOM in General Discussion

OCUM vs SCOM

netappmagic — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:44:28 GMT

Can somebody please share your experience on using these two monitoring tools? any pros and cons? Is there general sense of which one is better?

Thanks!

Re: OCUM vs SCOM

ttran — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 04:40:52 GMT

Hi Netappmagic,

Unless you are wanting or needing a specific feature available in SCOM, Active IQ Unified Manager is our most comprehensive monitoring and management product.

You can find more information on Active IQ Unified Manager here:

Active IQ Unified Manager Resources

TR-4621: OnCommand Unified Manager Best Practices Guide

Here is some documentation for SCOM:

OnCommand Plug-in 4.1.2 for Microsoft Installation and Setup Guide For Clustered Data ONTAP

OnCommand Plug-in 4.1.2 for Microsoft Administration Guide

OnCommand® Plug-in 4.1.3 for Microsoft Release Notes

Regards,

Team NetApp

Re: OCUM vs SCOM

GidonMarcus — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 10:11:08 GMT

The SCOM MP is a bit slow, and take long time to discover objects (sometimes hours, depend on the interval configured). I think OCUM should be kept as the main tool for the ONTAP monitoring. We had some extensive 1st line processes around SCOM alerts in a company I worked for. And we still decided to invest in integrating OCUM with our ticketing system as well (SCSM).