Major Features of System Center Operations Manager

System Center 2012 Operations Manager has hundreds of features and functions that IT administrators can leverage as part of their system monitoring and proactive management practices; some of the major features in the product are as follows:

Server and client system monitoring—Key to SCOM is its ability to monitor servers and client systems. Using an agent that installs on the system (or agentless if the administrator desires), information about the system(s) is reported back to the SCOM monitoring server with operational data tracked and logged on a continuous basis.

Event correlation—SCOM is smart enough to know that when a WAN connection is down, the status of all of the servers and devices ...

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