System Center Operations Manager

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The product began as a network management system called SeNTry ELM, which was developed by the British company Serverware Group plc.{{cite web |url=http://edgar.secdatabase.com/1788/89924399001190/filing-main.htm |title=Mission Critical Software Inc, Form S-1, Filing Date May 28, 1999 |publisher=secdatabase.com |accessdate=14 May 2018 |archive-date=15 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515112437/http://edgar.secdatabase.com/1788/89924399001190/filing-main.htm |url-status=live }} In June 1998 the intellectual property rights were bought by Mission Critical Software, Inc. who renamed the product Enterprise Event Manager.{{cite web | url = https://www.itprotoday.com/system-center/evolution-microsofts-system-center-suite | title = The Evolution of Microsoft's System Center Suite | access-date = 10 November 2018 | last = Deuby | first = Sean | date = 20 December 2011 | website = ITPro Today™ | language = en | quote = Microsoft entered the operations management field in 2000 by purchasing the rights to Mission Critical Software's Enterprise Event Manager. | format = html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180102062706/http://www.itprotoday.com/system-center/evolution-microsofts-system-center-suite | archive-date = 2 January 2018 | url-status = live }} Mission Critical undertook a complete rewrite of the product, naming the new version OnePoint Operations Manager (OOM).{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mission+Critical+Software+Delivers+OnePoint+Operations+Manager.-a056210815|title=Mission Critical Software Delivers OnePoint Operations Manager|access-date=29 May 2013|archive-date=2 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502181149/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mission+Critical+Software+Delivers+OnePoint+Operations+Manager.-a056210815|url-status=live}} Mission Critical Software merged with NetIQ{{cite web|url=http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=845|title=ENT News – Mission Critical and NetIQ Finalize Merger|access-date=2 May 2007|archive-date=28 September 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030928063431/http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=845|url-status=live}} in early 2000, and sold the rights of the product to Microsoft in October 2000. It was later renamed into Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) - in 2003, Microsoft began work on the next version of MOM: It was called Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and was released in August 2004.{{cite web | url = https://www.itprotoday.com/system-center/evolution-microsofts-system-center-suite | title = The Evolution of Microsoft's System Center Suite | access-date = 10 November 2018 | last = Deuby | first = Sean | date = 20 December 2011 | website = ITPro Today™ | language = en | quote = Microsoft renamed the product Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 (MOM—thus providing IT pros with a rich supply of jokes) and marketed the product through at least 2006. | format = html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180102062706/http://www.itprotoday.com/system-center/evolution-microsofts-system-center-suite | archive-date = 2 January 2018 | url-status = live }}{{cite book|author1=Kerrie Meyler|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HlfClVIkj5cC&pg=PA60|title=System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed|author2=Cameron Fuller|author3=John Joyner|date=21 February 2013|publisher=Sams Publishing|isbn=978-0-13-295385-6|pages=60–}} Service Pack 1 for MOM 2005 was released in July 2005 with support for Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 and SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4. It was also required to support SQL Server 2005 for the operational and reporting database components. The development for the next version—at this time its codename was “MOM V3”—began in 2005. Microsoft renamed the product System Center Operations Manager and released System Center Operations Manager 2007 in March 2007. System Center Operations Manager 2007 was designed from a fresh code base, and although sharing similarities to Microsoft Operations Manager, is not an upgrade from the previous versions.{{cite web | url = https://www.itprotoday.com/system-center/evolution-microsofts-system-center-suite | title = The Evolution of Microsoft's System Center Suite | access-date = 10 November 2018 | last = Deuby | first = Sean | date = 20 December 2011 | website = ITPro Today™ | language = en | quote = The product was rewritten from scratch and released in 2007 as System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), the name and architecture it holds today. | format = html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180102062706/http://www.itprotoday.com/system-center/evolution-microsofts-system-center-suite | archive-date = 2 January 2018 | url-status = live }}

In May 2009 System Center Operations Manager 2007 had a so-called “R2” release - the general enhancement was cross platform support for UNIX and Linux servers. Instead of publishing individual service packs, bug fixes to the product after System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 were released in the form of so-called cumulative updates (CUs).

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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 SCOM server. This SCOM server application maintains a database that includes a history of alerts. The SCOM 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.

SCOM 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, SCOM 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 SCOM servers can be aggregated together to monitor multiple networks across logical Windows domain and physical network boundaries. In previous versions of Operations Manager, a web service was employed to connect several separately-managed groups to a central location. As of Operations Manager 2007, a web service is no longer used. Rather, a direct TCP connection is used, making use of port 5723 for these communications.

To monitor servers which are running at Microsofts Cloud Infrastructure Azure it is possible to enable Log Analytics Data Sources which are collecting and sending their data to on premises SCOM Management Servers.{{Cite web|last=bwren|title=Connect Operations Manager to Azure Monitor - Azure Monitor|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/agents/om-agents|access-date=12 May 2021|website=docs.microsoft.com|language=en-us}}

In November 2020 Microsoft announced the plan to make SCOM a fully cloud managed Instance at their Azure Environment, Codename was "Aquila".{{Cite web|last=Foley|first=Mary Jo|title=Microsoft 'Aquila': System Center Operations Manager in the cloud|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-aquila-system-center-operations-manager-in-the-cloud/|access-date=12 May 2021|website=ZDNet|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=La bêta privée de SCOM dans le cloud de Microsoft dans les starting-blocks - Le Monde Informatique|url=https://www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/lire-la-beta-privee-de-scom-dans-le-cloud-de-microsoft-dans-les-starting-blocks-80943.html|access-date=12 May 2021|website=LeMondeInformatique|date=6 November 2020 |language=fr}}

Since Operations Manager 2007 the product includes an extensible command line interface called The Command Shell, which is a customized instance of the Windows PowerShell that provides interactive and script-based access to Operations Manager data and operations.{{cite web

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SCOM can be extended by importing management packs (MPs) which define how SCOM monitors systems. By default, SCOM only monitors basic OS-related services, but new MPs can be imported to monitor services such as SQL servers, SharePoint, Apache, Tomcat, VMware and SUSE Linux.

Many Microsoft products have MPs that are released with them, and many non-Microsoft software companies write MPs for their own products as well.

Whilst a fair amount of IT infrastructure is monitored using currently available MPs, new MPs can be created by end-users in order to monitor what is not already covered.{{Cite web|title=TechNet Wiki|url=https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/14273.how-to-create-a-new-management-pack-in-operations-manager.aspx|access-date=11 May 2021|website=social.technet.microsoft.com}}

Management Pack creation is possible with the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Resource Kit, Visual Studio with Authoring Extensions and Visio MP Designer.{{Cite web|date=4 June 2016|title=Part 1: Use VSAE to create a new Management Pack Project|url=https://kevinholman.com/2016/06/04/part-1-use-vsae-to-create-a-new-management-pack-project/|access-date=11 May 2021|website=Kevin Holman's Blog|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=TechNet Wiki|url=https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5235.visio-management-pack-designer-for-system-center-2012-operations-manager.aspx|access-date=11 May 2021|website=social.technet.microsoft.com}}

• Microsoft System Center
• [https://learn.microsoft.com/system-center/scom/release-build-versions Official SCOM Build Version List]
• System Center Configuration Manager
• System Center Data Protection Manager
• System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• Microsoft Servers
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• IBM Director

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book|title=Essential Microsoft Operations Manager|first=Chris|last=Fox|isbn=0-596-00953-4|year=2006|publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." |url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/essentialmicroso0000foxc}}
• {{cite book|title=System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed|first=Meyler|last=Kerrie |author2=Fuller, Cameron |author3=Joyner, John|isbn=978-0-672-32955-5|date=10 March 2008|publisher=Sams }}
• {{cite book|title=System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed|first=Meyler|last=Kerrie |author2=Fuller, Cameron |author3=Joyner, John|isbn=978-0-672-33341-5|year=2010}}
• {{cite book|title=System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed|edition=2nd|url=http://www.informit.com/store/system-center-2012-operations-manager-unleashed-9780672335914|first=Meyler|last=Kerrie |author2=Fuller, Cameron |author3=Joyner, John|isbn=978-0-672-33591-4|publisher=Sams|date=28 February 2013}}
• {{cite book|title=Mastering System Center 2012 Operations Manager|first=Bob|last=Cornelissen|author2=Keely, Paul |author3=Greene, Kevin |author4=Hadzhiyski, Ivan |author5=Allen, Sam |author6=Sampaio, Telmo|isbn=978-1-118-12899-2|date=6 November 2012|publisher=John Wiley & Sons }}
• {{cite book|author1=Danny Hermans|author2=Uwe Stürtz|author3=Mihai Sarbulescu|title=Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Field Experience|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BPwJCAAAQBAJ|date=10 April 2015|publisher=Microsoft Press|isbn=978-0-7356-9587-0}}
• {{cite book|author1=Steve Beaumont (MVP)|author2=Jonathan Horner|author3=Chiyo Odika|title=Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtwfCAAAQBAJ|date=14 April 2015|publisher=Packt Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-78217-625-1}}
• {{cite book|author1=George Wallace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1EiPBQAAQBAJ|title=Microsoft System Center Extending Operations Manager Reporting|author2=Bill May|author3=Fred Lee|date=20 November 2014|publisher=Microsoft Press|isbn=978-0-7356-9579-5}}

• [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/welcome?view=sc-om-2019 System Center Operations Manager]
• [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc181732.aspx Microsoft Tech Net guide on MOM]
• [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa505337.aspx Microsoft Operations Manager SDK] (in MSDN)
• [http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/3/0a3913c6-63a9-4442-b616-767789982605/introducing_system_center_operations_manager_2007_v1.5.doc Introducing System Center Operations Manager 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219132747/http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/a/3/0a3913c6-63a9-4442-b616-767789982605/Introducing_System_Center_Operations_Manager_2007_v1.5.doc |date=19 February 2009 }} A tutorial by David Chappell, Chappell & Associates
• [http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/F/D/BFDD0F66-1637-4EA3-8E6E-8D03001E5E66/OM2007R2_MPAuthoringGuide.docx Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack Authoring Guide] (from [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/systemcenter/om/bb498235.aspx#EIG UK TechNet])
• {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090501125744/http://www.systemcentercentral.com/ System Center Central (System Center community)]}}
• [https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/rampup_scom_2007_r2.aspx TechNet Ramp Up: Learn how to install, implement and administer Operations Manager 2007 R2.]
• [https://blakedrumm.com/ Blog of Blake Drumm]
• [https://kevinholman.com/ Blog of Kevin Holman regarding SCOM]
• [https://kevinjustin.com/ Blog of Kevin Justin]
• [https://thesystemcenterblog.wordpress.com/ Blog of Leon Laude for System Center]
• [https://tomziegler.com/ Blog of Tom Ziegler]
• [https://udishtech.com/ Blog of Udish Mudiar]

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