What is a management group?

Is a single instance of operations manager 2007 and its related services.

System Center Operations Manager 2007 additional components

Gateway server: lets you deploy agents and monitor devices that are located behind firewall and in other secure areas

Command shell: consists of more then 200 cmdlets that were created to automate operations manager 2007 tasks

System Center Operations Manager 2007 optional components

Management server: Operations manager uses management server to receive management packs from the root management server after which it distributes them to various agents that report information back to the management server

Web console server: Provides web browser based view into your operations manager infrastructure

Reporting server: The server on which reports are generated and prepared for viewing. This is an SQL server 2005 sp1

Reporting data warehouse server

--      Raw data stored for 14days

--     Summary –hourly & daily – data stored for 400 days.