Operations Manager
Best choice service management
System Centre Operations Manager is the end-to-end service-management product that is the best choice for Windows because it works seamlessly with Microsoft software and applications, helping you increase efficiency while enabling greater control of your IT environment.
With the myriad of technologies and applications hosted in today’s data centres, combined with the continued virtualisation of those systems and workloads, organisations continue to have to deploy multiple management tools that include proprietary and limited-scope products, tools developed in house, and more.
System Centre Operations Manager 2007 R2 uniquely enables you to reduce the cost of data centre management across server operating systems and hypervisors through a single, familiar and easy to use interface. By extending the value that you already see in managing your Windows Server deployed applications to UNIX and Linux, you are also able to better meet your service level agreements for applications in the data centre.
With Operations Manager 2007 R2 you can also improve your availability and performance metrics through enhanced service level monitoring, while your IT operations staff will be able to have improved access the key functionality they need to maintain and enhance the service they deliver to their end users.
Benefits of Operations Manager 2007 R2
- Enhances application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms in the data centre, with the ability to monitor Windows, Linux and UNIX servers and their workloads – all through a single console
- Improves management of applications in the data centre through enhanced reporting that shows how actual application performance and health maps to target levels of service, as well as monitoring capabilities that scale to required workloads
- Increases speed of access to information and functionality to drive management with efficient problem identification and actions to quickly resolve issues before they become incidents
Highly Scalable and Flexible Architecture
- Tiered architecture assures a monitoring capability that scales to the most challenging of environments
- Support for monitoring of single, multiple, and un-trusted domains, as well as remote branches or sites – all from the same management group
- Native ability to monitor both your physical and virtual systems and workloads side-by-side
- Powerful, deep and integrated monitoring of your Microsoft, UNIX and Linux systems and workloads
- High scalable monitoring, (e.g., ability to monitor of over 1000 URLs per Management Server)
Built-in Security Capabilities
- Leverages Active Directory to manage user and group-based access
- Role-based access mechanism permits restricted access to views and tasks through the console
- Acts as a proxy between users and the systems being managed, controlling the scope of permitted activities on target systems
Integrated, Updatable Monitoring Capabilities
- Advanced and in-depth monitoring of Microsoft and non-Microsoft workloads
- Baseline monitoring of health and performance of core operating system functionalities, including processor, logical and physical disks, memory, network interfaces and more
- Powerful management pack authoring tools enable creation of new and updated management packs
- Integrated download wisard assures simple deployment process for the latest new and updated management packs from the System Centre Catalogue
Monitor Service Levels against Targets
- Facilitates granular definition of service level objectives against the components of IT services
- Presents the achieved level of service by an IT service or application as the summation of the service levels of the components of that IT service
- Operational Summary Reports allow drill-down to deeper levels of information
Extensive, In-Depth Reporting
- Detailed reports on performance, availability and other metrics for monitored elements, from the operating system, to the application, to the IT service
- Reports can offer drill-down capabilities to drive down to the required level of detail
- Ability to report and surface rich information through dashboards, such as Microsoft SharePoint, further leveraging your investment in Microsoft technologies
Powerful authoring and customisation capabilities
- Monitoring templates enable operators to quickly create new monitors to validate health and performance of target systems and applications
- Distributed Application Designer enables rapid creation of health models through definition of the components that comprise that application
- Overrides enable customisation and tuning of monitors within management packs
- Overrides summary view facilitates the viewing of all overrides across both sealed and unsealed management packs
Flexible Notification Infrastructure
- Support for notifications via e-mail, SMS, Instant Messenger, and more
- Notification subscription wisard delivers intuitive approach to notification creation and maintenance
- Operators can self-subscribe to receive notifications on alerts of their choice
Powerful authoring and customisation capabilities
- PRO-enabled management packs provide an automated or advised response to incidents within virtualised environments, (e.g., Live Migration of workloads between servers in response to a hardware issue on the virtualisation host)
- Interoperability Connectors assure synchronised alerts and information between Operations Manager 2007 R2 and other management systems
- PowerShell hosting capability delivers highly-optimised environment for hosting PowerShell cmdlets used to monitor health and performance, rather than running those cmdlets on target machines
The Parative Footprint
We take pride in delivering outstanding solutions to our clients. And with over 30 years combined experience, we have designed and implemented solutions for over 140 clients.
With Parative you get 3 experts for the price of 1. Our principal consultants are certified PRINCE2 project managers, MCITP - enterprise administrators for Microsoft Active Directory, as well as leading experts in the field of migration.
Benefits
- Reduced costs with our accelerated implementation and migration solutions
- Access to experienced consultants who are specialists in their fields
- Transparent data consolidations, implementations and migrations for servers and end users
- Scalable and easy to implement solutions
- Increased customer satisfaction with faster responses to problems
- Reduced administrative overhead with reduced helpdesk calls
- Faster technology integration with our adapted testing environments
