Mastering System Center 2012 Operations Manager

Introduction

Welcome to this book on System Center 2012 Operations Manager. During the past 10 years and after multiple iterations of the product, Operations Manager has grown to be one of the main monitoring products for medium to large enterprises. The Operations Manager 2007 version, for instance, brought us from server-based monitoring to application-based monitoring, whereas the 2007 R2 version brought us cross-platform monitoring toward the Unix/Linux machines in our datacenter. Operations Manager 2012 is now bringing us expanded network monitoring, a much better dashboarding experience, application performance monitoring (which used to be known as a separate product called AVIcode), and an important infrastructural change by removing the ...