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Essential Microsoft Operations Manager
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Essential Microsoft Operations Manager

by Chris Fox
February 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
10h 37m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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MOM 2005 Components

Figure 1-11 shows the core components of MOM 2005 that are involved with producing the end product of MOM—an alert—and the tools you can use to view and act on the alert. To introduce these components, let’s work backward through the system, tracing the path of the alert through the core components to its origin.

The Operator Console

MOM 2005 gives you access to all the information it collects through the Operator console (point 1 in Figure 1-11). The Operator console is also where you will manage alerts and perform troubleshooting steps. You can also use the Web console (point 1a in Figure 1-11) for accessing the same information remotely, although you don’t get the same level of functionality.

The Operator console is based on the console that Microsoft’s internal IT group, the Operations and Technology Group (OTG), developed for its own use in working with MOM 2000 SP1.

In Figure 1-12, there are four panes, three of which you can display or hide at your discretion. On the lefthand side is the Alert Views pane. What you select here controls what you see in the middle two panes. In our example, All: Alert Views is selected and the resulting Alerts and Alert Details are shown in the middle two panes. On the far right side is the Tasks pane. When you select an object in the Tasks pane, you can execute that operation against the computer that has the focus in the middle two panes. For example, if you select the Ping object in the Tasks pane, the Ping command will execute ...

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