IT Forum 2004: MOM 2005 aims for prevention rather than cure

By Alun Williams

Posted on 17 Nov 2004 at 12:16

As announced yesterday in Bill Gates' keynote, Microsoft has officially released its Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 server product, which provides IT administrators with a way of monitoring system events and managing performance.

The idea is to better enable IT operations staff to stay aware of Windows Server-based system issues, with the bottom line being better levels of service availability.

As well as a new task-based interface, there is support for diagram views giving a topology of distributed services, and a security model so that staff and components can work with varying privilege levels. Other features in MOM 2005 include the use of data-collection agents, SQL Server-based reporting services, support for failover, improved scalability, and the MOM Connector Framework and APIs to enable integration with third-party apps and management sysstems.

Most server-related Microsoft product - such as Exchange, SQL Server, etc - will have their own 'MOM pack' to support this standardised monitoring.

You can find more information on the MOM 2005 website. MOM 2000 was the previous incarnation of this product.