I’m ISO (in search of) the mythical single pane of glass. In my best Steve Irwin voice… Integrate SCOM and SolarWinds – We are strong together. To me, integration occurs everywhere, at home, in your job, anyone you work with. Contribute, don’t consume 🙂 Everyone is unique, including preferences, and past experiences. In my career, I’ve been lucky to administer both tools for Fortune 100 companies (and more tools) across my career. I hope this blog provides a way to use both tools to get the full value for the least cost!
Integration
The real meat of this is how to get the most for the least cost!
Let’s ‘Integrate SCOM and SolarWinds’ into our unicorn. To date, getting data from SolarWinds into SCOM allows for easiest PowerBI Apps/reports
In my experience, the MSI requires Solarwinds Support login to download the SolarWinds Management Pack for SCOM.msi. Downlload and configure article here.
3rd party options (free)
Cookdown vendor method to grab SolarWinds data into SCOM
Webhooks SolarWinds – Cookdown details
SolarWinds Thwack entries – you can find my Thwack submissions there as well 😊
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/resources/thwack-command-center/f/forum/39833/scom-connector
One possible PowerBI report
ITSM integrations
Remedy
Most times the Remedy application is old, deprecated, outside it’s service life, rarely integrated with monitoring. One customer’s PowerBI report shows the utility at a glance (see picture below)
ITSM integration for ServiceNow (SNow)
Free – https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/explore-your-servicenow-data-with-power-bi/
SNOW PowerBI Connector (pay – requires support contract login)
Documentation