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Active Directory Integration

o Operations Manager 2007 allows you to leverage your investment in AD by enabling you to create ADbased rules to assign computers to Management Group, helping to reduce the cost of agent configuration.This is also helpful if your organization uses images to deploy computers. Just add the OperationsManagement 2007 agent to the SQL Server 2005 image and configure the agent to get its ManagementGroup information from AD. When you bring up a new SQL Server 2005, it's automatically configured to be

managed by the specified Management Group.

o Note: Managed computers do not have to be in an AD domain to be managed by Operations Manager 2007.o Operations Manager 2007 uses Active Directory to manage authentication and authorization. AD groups

and users can be assigned Operations Manager 2007 roles, leveraging your investment in AD and furtherhelping to reduce the cost of deploying and using Operations Manager 2007.

Manage SNMP Enabled Devices and Non-Windows-Based Computers

o With Operations Manager 2007 you can manage SNMP-enabled devices, such as routers, print servers, andnon-Windows-based computers, in addition to Windows-based computers. Operations Manager 2007 canobtain a core set of data from SNMP-enabled devices and non-Windows-based computers. A Management

Pack for an object type, such as Cisco routers or Linux servers, enables extended management of them byOperations Manager 2007. The Management Pack can be provided by the object's manufacturer, a thirdparty, or developed within your organization.

Service Oriented Monitoring

o Operations Manager 2007 shifts the paradigm from managing individual computers to defining andmanaging the distributed applications you provide, such as email. This enables you to more effectivelyand efficiently identify, understand, and resolve issues related these applications.

o Many objects that you can monitor, such as Windows services, are similar to each other. OperationsManager 2007 provides the Distributed Application Designer and templates for similar objects; much likeMicrosoft Word provides templates for common document types. This makes it easier for you toaccurately and quickly define, and subsequently monitor, the distributed applications you are responsible

for, such as a web-based application.

o Synthetic Transactions allow you to emulate your customers' experience with a service, enabling you tobetter understand their perception of the services you provide them.

Baseline Monitor Feature

o The Operations Manager Baseline Monitor feature enables you to monitor the activity of a computer'scounter, such as processor utilization. Baseline monitors help to ensure that alerts are raised when thereis an issue, while preventing randomized floods of false alerts.

o Baseline monitors eliminate the need to manually set thresholds for alerts. Baseline monitors also moreaccurately reflects an organization's use of the IT infrastructure by taking into account normal variations

in usage.

o Operations Manager 2007 creates and continually updates a baseline that represents normal activity forthe counter. Operations Manager 2007 uses that baseline to automatically set and adjust thresholds foralerts, taking into account patterns; for example, a spike in processor utilization that might occur when alarge number of users log on.

Agentless ExceptionMonitoringFeature

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o Management packs can contain diagnostic and recovery actions that can run automatically or on demand.Data can be collected and stored exclusively for reporting purposes, bypassing the Operations Managerdatabase.

o When a significant event is detected an alert is raised for the Operations Manager operator. The alert willcontain actionable knowledge, with views and tasks embedded in the text, that walk the operator throughthe steps to resolve the issue.

o Management packs can also contain common administrative tasks that can be launched from theOperations Manager 2007 console. To help the operator take in relevant information, data collected bythe management pack is presented using views and reports that are part of the management pack. Viewstypes include: alert, dashboard, diagram, event, performance and URL. Dashboard views are used toprovide a summary of the health of a particular application or device.

o Operations Manager 2007 introduces the concept of sealed management packs. Management packs fromMicrosoft and other vendors are sealed, versioned and signed with a certificate. Once a management packis imported you can customize it, saving the changes separately. When you import a new version of themanagement pack, the original management pack is replaced, but your customizations are retained.

o Operations Manager 2007 also includes the ability to delete a management pack. Deleting a managementpack will remove all management pack objects and discovered data from the database.

Reporting Enhancements

o The Reporting feature of Operations Manager 2007 is newly engineered for this release and focuses oncustomer scenarios, performance, and usability.

o Data does not have to go through the Operations Manager 2007 database to the Reporting database. Datacan be sent directly to either the Operations Manager 2007 or Reporting databases, or both.

o Reporting data is available in virtually no latency.o Reports are displayed in the Operations Manager 2007 Console, not a separate one.o Data is pre-aggregated, summarized, and indexed. Even reports for long time periods display quickly.

Console Enhancements

o Administration, Reporting, and Authoring are unified in a single console, with views based on roles,making your Operations Manager 2007 team more efficient.

o Personalize the Operations Console with My Workspace; quickly get to the information that matters mostto you.

o Overview pages provide easy to understand summaries, and the integrated search makes it easy to delveinto the details.

o You can create Dashboard views that contain multiple view types, such as performance and state, helpingto make you more efficient at managing your environment.

o Knowledge data can be used in more helpful ways, such as launching inline linked tasks, making it easierand faster to investigate and resolve alerts.

o Tight integration between alerts and other views, enabling you to switch from an alert to a correspondingevent or performance view, for example.

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o Performance views are easier to use, helping you perform your work more effectively.o Highly extensible with PowerShell scripting, helping to ensure that it meets your organization's needs.

Task Functionality

o Operations Manager 2007 provides consistent and real-time task status regardless of the target, helpingyou efficiently run and monitor tasks. There is also greater granularity of control over who can run whichtask and on what objects, and anyone can run a runtime task.

o Operations Manager 2007 also provides a Run As option that enables you to launch a task with thenecessary permissions without going through the laborious process of logging out and logging back into thesystem.

Command Shell Feature

o Based on the Windows PowerShell technology, this command-line environment provides administratorswith a set of composable and extensible commands for automating Operations Manager 2007administration without using the Operations Manager Console user interface. Within the shell, you can usethe get-momcommand to get a list of Operations Manager 2007 cmdlets and the get-Help cmdlet to

display help for each Operations Manager 2007 cmdlet.