Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

This whitepaper explores how proactive monitoring, using Microsoft SCOM enhanced with the NiCE NetApp ONTAP Management Pack, enables IT teams to detect issues early, optimize storage usage, and ensure reliable, predictable performance across both on-premises and hybrid-cloud infrastructures.

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) remains one of the most capable on-premises monitoring platforms for Microsoft environments. However, as IT operations evolve toward real-time observability and self-service insights, traditional SCOM reporting and consoles can feel restrictive. This whitepaper explores practical ways to extend and modernize your SCOM visualizations using today's leading dashboarding technologies - including SquaredUp, Grafana, Power BI, and Azure Workbooks.

SCOM dashboards should be the most accurate representation of operational health in an enterprise. They have access to rich, stateful monitoring data, deep object models, and years of operational context. Yet in many environments, dashboards are ignored, distrusted, or reduced to wall art.