Taking a Closer Look at System Center Operations Manager
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 R2 is the latest version of Microsoft’s enterprise monitoring product. Previously owned by NetIQ and then sold to Microsoft, the product has evolved from the a product known as Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to the latest generation.
SCOM provides for several major pieces of functionality, as follows:
• Event log consolidation— SCOM Agents, deployed on managed systems, forward all event log information to a central SCOM SQL Server database, which is managed and groomed by SCOM. This data is used for reporting, auditing, and monitoring of the specific events.
• Advanced alerting capabilities— SCOM provides advanced alerting functionality by ...
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