Chapter 1. Introduction to System Center Operations Manager

Thank you for purchasing this book and we hope that it will help you through your journey of getting started with System Center Operations Manager. In this chapter, we will give you an overview of System Center and introduce you to Operations Manager, its capabilities and the minimum system requirements that you need to have in place before you begin deployment.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Overview of System Center
  • Introduction to Operations Manager
  • IT as a Service
  • Operations Manager core features
  • Minimum installation requirements

System Center overview

System Center is a suite of enterprise cloud and datacenter management tools from Microsoft, developed and structured ...

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