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Key Features
Distributed Event Management
Microsoft Operations Manager captures a wide variety of system
and applications events from Windows-based systems distributed throughout an
enterprise IT environment and aggregates them into a central event repository.
Administrators can consolidate these events for an overall view of server and service
availability or they can obtain specific information from the detailed event stream—all
from a single view on a desktop console.
Rules
Administrator-created rules in Microsoft Operations Manager
allow the system to react automatically to incoming message streams and can
either respond to a specific fault scenario with a predefined action or
consolidate the messages into a more meaningful or significant event. These
rules allow Microsoft Operations Manager to react intelligently to anticipated
event patterns, triggering actions or administrative alerts. Rules can also
link an event sequence to Microsoft Knowledge Base articles, instantly providing
operators with guidance on probable causes, approved responses to specific
problems, and links to additional information.
Alerts
Any Microsoft Operations Manager rule can be configured to
generate specific alerts with associated severity levels. An alert can represent
a single event or multiple events from many sources. An administrator can at any
time trace the history of a given alert, the events associated with it, and
consult any related Knowledge Base articles. In addition, alerts can optionally
trigger e-mail messages, pages, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps,
and scripts to notify specific system operators and other management systems of
emerging problems.
Performance Monitoring
Microsoft Operations Manager can be set to monitor key
performance thresholds. Rules may be customized and new rules added, allowing
system and application performance trends to be monitored both for historical
reporting purposes and capacity planning. Additionally, local and aggregated
thresholds can be set to generate alerts and actions in response to any changes
in system or application performance requiring administrative intervention.
Management Packs
Management packs consist of pre-configured Microsoft
Operations Manager rule-sets and Knowledge Base articles, with each pack
providing rules for a specific range of applications or services. These
management packs have been developed and refined by experts and provide
both a complete off-the-shelf solution and a strong foundation for more
advanced administrators to customize and extend. Included as a standard
part of Microsoft Operations Manager is a management pack that enables
management of all critical Windows services, including the Active Directory™
directory service and Internet Information Services (IIS). Additional
management packs are available from Microsoft and third-party vendors,
covering BackOffice® applications and Microsoft Windows Server System™
integrated server software, such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server™, as
well as a wide range of other enterprise applications.
Graphical Reporting Tool
Microsoft Operations Manager provides access to a broad
range of preconfigured reports and charts. The reports generated allow
administrators to review at a glance the status of systems and services on
the network and to plan changes to the infrastructure based on performance
and availability data. Additional reports may be added to the system by
means of management packs from Microsoft or third-party vendors, further
enriching the report suite available to administrators.
Web Reporting
Microsoft Operations Manager can create Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML)–based snapshots of all generated reports which can then be
exported to a Web server to provide access from Web browsers as well as the
Microsoft Operations Manager Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and Web
consoles.
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