MOM 2005 launch - deja vu?
Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 has been launched in several locations around the world for the past month and was launched in Europe at IT Forum last week. I really like the idea that a product has multiple launches around the world as it gives me the opportunity to attend an event that’s held locally and to catch up with customers for their feedback. So what is it that’s really great about the latest release?
Well, like all of our latest products, its more scalable. Each MOM Management Server can manage 2000 client agents (servers) that’s an increase of almost twice as many as MOM 2000, with the introduction of the new Operators Console in addition to the existing Administration console, monitoring your systems has never looked so good. There’s support for AMD and Itanium 64-bit as well as 32-bit. If you’re managing a smaller server estate, then MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition manages up to 10 servers in exactly the same way as its larger sibling does with limitations only on reporting and integration. In fact, each attendee at IT forum received a full copy of MOM 2005 workgroup Edition. If you work in a tightly locked down environment, where the installation of an agent on some of the servers would cause issues, then there is the ability to perform Agentless monitoring on these servers. You’ll actually still get about 80% of the functionality of monitoring compared with using an Agent, one of the noticeable features that would not be available is the ability to execute scripts.
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MOM web site, there is a management pack catalog where you can search for all of the Microsoft and third party Management packs that are available, logically sorted in one location. An excellent idea that has been long overdue. You can download an evaluation copy of MOM 2005 from the MOM 2005 site so start monitoring!