ICT departments are under increasing pressure to deliver higher levels of benefit to the business whilst demonstrating value for money.
By automating the management and monitoring of systems and services, ICT departments can do more with fewer resources, better manage the complexity of their environment and achieve the agile necessary to deliver higher business benefit.
Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2007 addresses this very requirement and provides an easy to use, software-based solution that automatically monitors servers, applications and clients to provide a comprehensive view of the health of an organisation's ICT infrastructure.
Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2007 is the third generation of Microsoft's award winning monitoring solution and builds on the success of its predecessors by adding key features and functionality that customers and the market have been demanding
Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager 2007 features include:
End-to-End Service Management
System Centre Operations Manager provides end-to-end service management that is easy to customize and extend to help improve service levels across your IT environment.For example, it is no longer the case that, e-mail is handled by only one server. Instead, the e-mail service is typically made up of many servers and network devices. The distributed nature of today’s applications challenges traditional server event and performance monitoring tools.
Operations Manager 2007 allows an administrator to graphically define the components that make up a service. Once the service model is defined, services are managed like any other device. Events can be monitored, performance can be tracked, and overall health can be viewed and reported on.
Increased Efficiency and Control
System Centre Operations Manager automates routine, redundant tasks, and provides intelligent reporting and monitoring to help increase efficiency and enable greater control of your IT environment.Best of Breed for Windows
System Centre Operations Manager provides administrators with direct access to in-built detailed product knowledge and event-based troubleshooting steps from the Microsoft server, client, and application development and support teams.
Further information on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 is available online at http://www.microsoft.com/opsmgr.