It's pathetic. And I know it's going to burn me one day.
SolarWinds needs a classfull discovery process and granular overrides like SCOM.
Plain and simple.
With 15 different clients I host I simply cannot provide granular alerts easily and effortlessly.
The manual static updating of custom properties is simply atrocious for large companies.
It amazes me that I cannot target a dynamic group in solar winds for reports and monitors.
Sorry for ranting on a vendors board, bad form, I know. But it's obvious people do not use the product in a complex environment with flexibility.
SCOM blows the doors off SolarWinds for SQL/IIS application (yeah I know it's coming) monitoring.
SolarWinds blows the doors off SCOM for MANY other things. It goes both ways.
Both products **** equally and drive me damn nuts.