Have I told you before about how much I love Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM)?
No?
Well then, let me make it clear: I love SCOM, very much. A little too much, if you ask those around me. Oh sure, SCOM has lots of issues, but who among us is perfect? Even the Patriots lost once this year, right?
I have been using SCOM to some degree for about a year now. In that time I have come to understand a lot of the finer details about how it all works (when it works, of course). I am slowly replacing a lot of my home-grown monitoring systems with SCOM, taking out one piece at a time, letting it run in SCOM, and evaluating the results. And in every case I usually end up more satisfied than not.
I plan on using it to collect info that SCOM does not collect by default (say, sp_configure information) and I may even think about putting in scripts that would let me run database dumps.
If anyone else out there is using SCOM and has stories to share, please do so. I would love to hear about how you are using SCOM. I am thinking about building some management packs and making them available for download, just let me know if you are interested.