MOM delivers on that commitment with enterprise-class solutions for operations management of Windows 2000 Server, Windows infrastructure including Active Directory, and .NET Enterprise Servers such as Exchange Server and SQL Server. Now, with Microsoft Operations Manager 2000, they have a single point of daily management for Windows that s uniquely geared to the high volume of events inherent in a decentralized environment. Managers who are comfortable with their existing management tools can roll MOM data into those existing tools. Even when managers use MOM to manage Windows from a non-Windows environment, they still get more and better information about the Windows portion of their networks than they could from generic management products. If a different product manages each network component, network operators have to move from console to console, eyeballing results to try to solve the problem.
MOM allows for a natural integration of solutions on a common platform.
We can t underestimate the importance of that for network managers. Listening to MOM MOM provides several ways for network managers to understand and respond effectively to network events. Second, it consolidates events, presenting them from the perspective of the network manager rather than that of individual components throughout the network. For example, if an application or computer can t access a printer, it might make the attempt repeatedly, generating scores of separate events that clog the event log. With MOM, those 40 or 60 events are captured at the source and compressed into a single event which notes that the problem has been repeated for 40 or 60 times.