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.

System center operations manager components

Agents: are service or can call small piece of software that you deploy to computers to monitor with SCOM..

Operations console: is operations managers command center and is the tool by which you will view gathered data, management packs, reporting and much more

Management packs: basic building blocks for operations manager and includes information necessary to monitor specific kinds of hardware and software

What is new in SCOM 2007 R2?

Exchange 2007 client access server monitoring management pack template.

Import management packs wizard

Support for discovery and monitoring of unix and linux based computers.

Service level monitoring

Support for SQL server 2008

Native monitoring for IIS 7

Support for large scale monitoring of URL’s

What is new in SCOM 2007

Agentless exception monitoring.

Client monitoring management pack

Root management sever

Command line support via power shell

Authorized console with SP1

SNMPv2 support

Health explorer

Name Changes in Citrix Products

Old Names	New Names
Presentation server	XenApp
Presentation server console	XenApp Advanced Configuration Tool
Citrix management console	Access management Console
Presentation server client	Citrix xenapp plugin for hosted app
Program neighborhood agent	Citrix xenapp
Web client	Citrix xen app web plugin
Citrix streaming client	Citrix xenapp plugin for streamed apps
Web interface site	Xenapp web
PN agent site	Xenapp service
WMI provider	Citrix xenapp provider