The Operations Console Component

The Operations console is used to monitor systems, run tasks, configure environmental settings, set author rules, subscribe to alerts, and generate and subscribe to reports. The console automatically scopes to the objects that an operator is authorized to manage in his or her user role. This allows the OpsMgr administrator to grant application owners full operator privileges to the Operations console, but to a restricted set of objects. These restrictions are based on Active Directory security principles (users and security groups) and are respected by all consoles, APIs, and even the command shell.

Console performance can be a major issue to contend with in an OpsMgr infrastructure. The Operations console places ...

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