System Center Operations Manager 2007 Dave Northey Microsoft Ireland.

System Center Operations System Center Operations Manager 2007Manager 2007

Dave NortheyDave NortheyMicrosoft IrelandMicrosoft Ireland

What We Heard From What We Heard From CustomersCustomers

Need deeper integration with Active Directory to assist in Need deeper integration with Active Directory to assist in agent deployment and to delegate more granular controlagent deployment and to delegate more granular control

Provide a Single UI and allow more personalizationProvide a Single UI and allow more personalization

Make it easier to tune Management Packs for my Make it easier to tune Management Packs for my environmentenvironment

Smarter knowledge with integrated tasks to better equip Smarter knowledge with integrated tasks to better equip operators in problem resolutionoperators in problem resolution

Ability to define and manage the health of distributed Ability to define and manage the health of distributed applications like “messaging" or “line of business”applications like “messaging" or “line of business”

Operations Manager 2007 Operations Manager 2007

Proactive management of your IT services Proactive management of your IT services

Integrated monitoring of Integrated monitoring of distributed applications, the distributed applications, the end user perspective, and supporting infrastructureend user perspective, and supporting infrastructure

Simplifies managing your IT environment Simplifies managing your IT environment and improves time to valueand improves time to value

Leverages Active Directory, self tuning thresholds, Leverages Active Directory, self tuning thresholds, and improved reportingand improved reporting

Reduces your problem resolution timeReduces your problem resolution time

Management packs that include Microsoft expertise Management packs that include Microsoft expertise for applications, servers, and clients for applications, servers, and clients

Integration of Error Reporting and Audit CollectionIntegration of Error Reporting and Audit Collection

Reliably scales across your operations team Reliably scales across your operations team and enterprise IT environment and enterprise IT environment

Role based security, self monitoring infrastructure, Role based security, self monitoring infrastructure, and improved scalabilityand improved scalability

Easy to UseEasy to Use

Knowledge DrivenKnowledge Driven

Enterprise ClassEnterprise Class

Service OrientedService Oriented

Easy to UseEasy to Use

Leverages Active Directory for Leverages Active Directory for discovery, user accounts, groups discovery, user accounts, groups & agent configuration& agent configuration

New self tuning thresholds adjust New self tuning thresholds adjust alerting to business usage alerting to business usage patternspatterns

Easier to use, customize, and Easier to use, customize, and author reportsauthor reports

XML based MPs with versioningXML based MPs with versioning

Single Operations Console with Single Operations Console with role based securityrole based security

Understand and easily locate Understand and easily locate information with overview pages information with overview pages and integrated searchand integrated search

Improve time to value and reduce IT management complexityImprove time to value and reduce IT management complexity

Easy To UseEasy To Use

Knowledge DrivenKnowledge Driven

Easily resolve problems with Easily resolve problems with knowledge, views, knowledge, views, dashboards and inline tasksdashboards and inline tasks

Personalization your Personalization your monitoring via My Workspacemonitoring via My Workspace

Proactive problem Proactive problem management of crash and management of crash and hang data via Agentless hang data via Agentless Exception MonitoringException Monitoring

Windows Client utilization, Windows Client utilization, reliability, and error reliability, and error monitoring of Vista, XP, and monitoring of Vista, XP, and the Office suitethe Office suite

Audit collection service Audit collection service efficiently archives security efficiently archives security event logsevent logs

Accelerate problem resolution and reduce the TCO of Windows environmentAccelerate problem resolution and reduce the TCO of Windows environment

Knowledge DrivenKnowledge Driven

Knowledge Driven ManagementKnowledge Driven Management

Knowledge is fundamental to OpsMgr 2007 & Knowledge is fundamental to OpsMgr 2007 & the Dynamic Systems Initiativethe Dynamic Systems Initiative

We know knowledge can be foundWe know knowledge can be foundIn documentationIn documentation

On white boardsOn white boards

On napkinsOn napkins

We know people have knowledgeWe know people have knowledge

Application DeveloperApplication Developer IT ProfessionalIT Professional Information WorkerInformation Worker

Capture Knowledge Capture Knowledge Through ModelsThrough Models

ModelsModelsPut knowledge in a structure that software can act Put knowledge in a structure that software can act uponupon

Represented in XMLRepresented in XML

Rich RelationshipsRich Relationships

Application StructureApplication Structure

Models are based on the Systems Definition Models are based on the Systems Definition Model (SDM) schemaModel (SDM) schema

Core Technology to the Windows platformCore Technology to the Windows platform

Core to System Center productsCore to System Center products

Knowledge DrivenKnowledge Driven

Basic Health Model Of An EntityBasic Health Model Of An Entity

Entity

Availability

Health

Performance

Health

Security

Health

Configuration

Health

Overall

Health

SQL SVRService

Windows Service State

Basic Model - Distributed Application StructureBasic Model - Distributed Application Structure

Health ModelsHealth Models

““Messaging”Messaging”

Service OrientedService Oriented

Monitor the health of Monitor the health of distributed applications distributed applications all the way down to all the way down to hardware levelhardware level

Synthetic transactions to Synthetic transactions to monitor end user monitor end user perspectiveperspective

Easy to use distributed Easy to use distributed application templates application templates and Designer for and Designer for creating management creating management packspacks

Improve the service levels of packaged and Line of Business applicationsImprove the service levels of packaged and Line of Business applications

Service OrientedService Oriented

More Than MicrosoftMore Than Microsoft

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Operations Manager 2007 R2:Operations Manager 2007 R2:

Deep System Center “Service Desk” Deep System Center “Service Desk” integration with additional focus on integration with additional focus on advancing User Experience advancing User Experience Monitoring and DiagnosticsMonitoring and Diagnostics

Service Level ManagementService Level Management

Capacity ManagementCapacity Management

RTMRTMQ4 2006Q4 2006

OpsMgr ResourcesOpsMgr Resources

OpsMgr Home Page: www.microsoft.com/mom OpsMgr Home Page: www.microsoft.com/mom Links to all things MOMLinks to all things MOMDetails on MOMv3 beta!Details on MOMv3 beta!

OpsMgr for Beginners: OpsMgr for Beginners: www.microsoft.com/mom/beginners www.microsoft.com/mom/beginners Management Pack Catalog: Management Pack Catalog: www.microsoft.com/mom/managementpacks www.microsoft.com/mom/managementpacks OpsMgr Community: OpsMgr Community: www.microsoft.com/mom/community www.microsoft.com/mom/community

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