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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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Additional Components

The MOM 2005 components introduced so far are directly involved with the creation of an alert, the management of an alert, and the storage of an alert. But these are not all the components available. This section introduces other components and gives an overview of where they fit and their purpose. Figure 1-16 shows these additional components; however, note that none of these are involved with the generation of an alert.

Administrator Console

While the Operator console is used to consume and manage the alert, event, performance, and status data that MOM 2005 produces, the Administrator console (point 1 in Figure 1-16) is used to manage the configuration of MOM 2005. The Administrator console performs most of its work through the DAS on the MOM 2005 management server, but for some specific tasks, it works directly with MOMService.exe. Like the Operator console, the Administrator console is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.

There are four top-level objects used to break down the functions in the Administrator console. They are the Information Center object; the Operations object used for launching the Operators, Reporting, and the Web consoles; the Management Packs object; and the Administration object. Figure 1-17 shows the Administrator console.

If you have administrator permissions to MOM 2005, you will have full access to all objects in the Administrator console. A MOM 2005 administrator controls the configurations that govern the overall behavior ...

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