MOM Product Team Blog

MOM 2005 is featured in a new Harrison Ford movie that recently came out called Firewall. While I can't say much for the movie itself, it was cool to see MOM in action on the big screen. You can clearly see MOM running on a second monitor in Harrison Read More...

We had another one of those interesting threads on an internal distribution alias today about playing a sound when a new alert comes into MOM. While MOM doesnt support this natively, the contributors to this thread came up with some interesting options: Read More...

We had an interesting thread today on an internal alias about running multiple MOM consoles simultaneously. The following are supported configurations: Run multiple MOM 2000 consoles at once - create more than one MMC console with a MOM 2000 administrator Read More...

A question that I hear frequently is "How do I create a read-only Operator Console"? The MOM security groups are 'MOM User', 'MOM Author', and 'MOM Administrator'. Unfortunately, there is no 'MOM Read-only User' security group. This means that there is Read More...

The MOM 2005 Operator Console has a great hidden feature most people don't know about - .omc files! A .omc file is a file which stores your personalization settings for the console session. You can do a File/Save As at any time to start a new .omc file. Read More...

Quite a few customers have asked 'Why doesn’t the performance view automatically refresh like the other views in the operator console?" This is a great question. There are basically two reasons for this: 1. The performance view takes quite a bit of processing Read More...