Additional Pollers - Automatic Load Disribution

Yes, I agree with this as well. This is a feature sorely needed in Orion.

One of the reasons why our organization is looking at implementing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 is because of it's design for scaling the monitoring environment up or scaling it sideways - SCOM uses the concept of a "Management Server Pool". Details can be seen here: Microsoft SCOM Training – Learn about System Center Operations Manager – Microsoft Virtual Academy.

Quote taken from the free training material at MVA ----

"As you decide to expand the capacity (of SCOM), you will add additional servers into the management pool group. You roll out another management server that will be in the same pool. As soon as you do this, some of the roles that were running on the first management server automatically get balanced to the new management server. This takes the load off the first server, and spreads it out around the pool. As you add additional management servers, the roles will further balance. Therefore, the pool will take care of making sure that you have enough resources and you are doing everything you can to spread out across the various management servers. In addition, if one goes down, the role that would be running on that server will automatically fail over to the other management server. Everything is balanced across the pool."

- Copyright Microsoft

- Joe

That's a nice story joe; but cast a critical eye on all that fluffy Microsift sales jargon... I still have Scars from MOM, SCOM v1 (the non-working edition) and SCOM 2007 R2.

The truth is that none of these solutions scale up past a certain point without pain, and they often let the users find where that limit exists.

ctmidnight‌ oh trust me I hear you there I've been burned by MS as well (most of us have). We are still in the process of testing our SCOM 2012 R2 in our environment and I am still highly critical of it's so-called dashboard and monitoring capabilities --- Personally I am not impressed (not yet anyway). I don't have the warm fuzzies when I hear the term "SCOM". But there is one true thing --- there are pros and cons that must be weighed with every solution out there, even with SolarWinds.

ctmidnight‌ oh trust me I hear you there I've been burned by MS as well (most of us have). We are still in the process of testing our SCOM 2012 R2 in our environment and I am still highly critical of it's so-called dashboard and monitoring capabilities --- Personally I am not impressed (not yet anyway). I don't have the warm fuzzies when I hear the term "SCOM". But there is one true thing --- there are pros and cons that must be weighed with every solution out there, even with SolarWinds.