Operations Manager 2007 Explored

Operations Manager (OM) 2007 is the first of Microsoft’s System Center management products to embrace “model-based management”—a key pillar of the company’s Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI). Use of models allows the product to perform functions difficult or impractical with its predecessor, such as monitoring applications or OS services distributed across multiple computers, and makes it easier and thus more likely for developers and partners to create management packs (MPs) that enable OM to monitor their applications, OS components, and hardware devices. However, OM 2007 still requires substantial and difficult fine-tuning to eliminate false alarms.

This release is a major update to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005, the company’s product for monitoring computer and application health, and its formal product name has been changed to Systems Center Operations Manager 2007. This article assumes readers have a basic understanding of the MOM 2005 product; readers unfamiliar with it should see the sidebar “Operations Manager Overview“.