Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

Microsoft System Center plays a central role in Microsoft's vision to help IT organizations benefit from self-managing, dynamic systems. System Center solutions are tuned to simplify management of the systems and applications your company already has implemented, including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Biztalk Server, Internet Information Services and the Microsoft .NET Framework. One of the fastest-growing growing application areas is in distributed and web-enabled applications. As a result of these applications increased presence and value, being able to manage both the SOA components and the web services is emerging as an important management requirement and System Center Operations Manager 2007 is well positioned to meet that requirement.

System Center Operations Manager 2007 is a product solution in the System Center family which provides end-to-end IT service management for managing software and applications, including .NET. Operations Manager 2007 provides a management platform to enable application discovery, availability and performance degradation detection out-of-the-box. The components of SOA need to be managed just like any other IT component. Operations Manager 2007 monitors the core components of Microsoft's SOA architecture (including SQL Server, IIS, Windows, .NET, Biztalk, and WSS) through the use of management packs. These management packs contains best practice knowledge to discover, monitor, troubleshoot report on, and resolve problems for the SOA components. Operations Manager is then able to tie these components together to monitor them as an business process.

Operations Manager is able to link the availability and performance status of underlying IT infrastructure and application components to business-oriented IT services for Business Process Management (BPM). Operations Manager directly integrates BPM capabilities with its component monitoring, end user perspective monitoring and event management capabilities. It does this by the creation of distributed health models for business services that calculate the impact of the status of underlying components, sub services and measures of end user experience on the status of the service being offered to the business. These rich set of capabilities allow Operations Manager to implement comprehensive SOA and .NET application monitoring for distributed applications and realize the potential of Business Process Management to improve the service levels to the business.

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