Microsoft Operations Manager
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The Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) is the event and performance management element of Microsoft's Windows Server System.
The product allows monitoring of numerous computers interconnected by one or more communications networks. Many Microsoft server products, such as Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and MOM itself can be monitored with MOM. The product began as a network management system developed by a company called NetIQ(recently acquired by Attachmate).
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[edit] How does MOM work?
The basic idea is to place a piece of software, an agent, on the computer to be monitored. The agent watches several sources on that computer, including the Windows Event Log, for specific events or alerts generated by the applications executing on the monitored computer. Upon alert occurrence and detection, the agent forwards the alert to a central MOM server. This MOM server application maintains a database that includes a history of alerts. The MOM server applies filtering rules to alerts as they arrive; a rule can trigger some notification to a human, such as an e-mail or a pager message, generate a network support ticket, or trigger some other workflow intended to correct the cause of the alert in an appropriate manner.
MOM uses the term management pack to refer to a set of filtering rules specific to some monitored application. While Microsoft and other software vendors make management packages available for their products, MOM also provides for authoring custom management packs. While an administrator role is needed to install agents, configure monitored computers and create management packs, rights to simply view the list of recent alerts can be given to any valid user account.
Several MOM servers can be aggregated together to monitor multiple networks across logical Windows domain and physical network boundaries. Through a connector framework scheme employing a Web Service, individual MOM servers can exchange alerts with other network management applications.
[edit] Versions for Operations Manager
- Microsoft Operations Manager 2000
- Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
- Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Service Pack 1
- System Center Operations Manager 2007 (under development as of December 2006)
