System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a cross-platform data center monitoring system for operating systems and hypervisors. It uses a single interface that shows state, health, and performance information of computer systems. It also provides alerts generated according to some availability, performance, configuration, or security situation being identified. It works with Microsoft Windows Server and Unix-based hosts.

History

The product began as a network management system called SeNTry ELM, which was developed by the British company Serverware Group plc. In June 1998 the intellectual property rights were bought by Mission Critical Software, Inc. who renamed the product Enterprise Event Manager. Mission Critical undertook a complete rewrite of the product, naming the new version OnePoint Operations Manager (OOM). Mission Critical Software merged with NetIQ in early 2000, and sold the rights of the product to Microsoft in October 2000. It was later renamed into Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) - in 2003, Microsoft began work on the next version of MOM: It was called Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and was released in August 2004. Service Pack 1 for MOM 2005 was released in July 2005 with support for Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 and SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4. It was also required to support SQL Server 2005 for the operational and reporting database components.

In November 2020 Microsoft announced the plan to make SCOM a fully cloud managed Instance at their Azure Environment, Codename was "Aquila".

The Command Shell

Since Operations Manager 2007 the product includes an extensible command line interface called The Command Shell, which is a customized instance of the Windows PowerShell that provides interactive and script-based access to Operations Manager data and operations.

Management Pack

SCOM can be extended by importing management packs (MPs) which define how SCOM monitors systems. By default, SCOM only monitors basic OS-related services, but new MPs can be imported to monitor services such as SQL servers, SharePoint, Apache, Tomcat, VMware and SUSE Linux.

Many Microsoft products have MPs that are released with them, and many non-Microsoft software companies write MPs for their own products as well.

Whilst a fair amount of IT infrastructure is monitored using currently available MPs, new MPs can be created by end-users in order to monitor what is not already covered.

Management Pack creation is possible with the System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Resource Kit, Visual Studio with Authoring Extensions and Visio MP Designer.

Versions

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!Name

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!Version

!Release date

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|Microsoft Operations Manager 2000

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|2001

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|Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

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|2004

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|Service Pack 1

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|2005 August 1

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|System Center Operations Manager 2007

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|6.0.5000.0

|2007 March 23

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|Service Pack 1

|6.0.6278.0

|2008 February 22

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|R2

|6.1.7221.0

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|System Center Operations Manager 2012

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|7.0.8560.0

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|Service Pack 1

|7.0.9538.0

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|-

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|R2

|7.1.10226.0

|2013 October 18

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|System Center Operations Manager 2016

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|7.2.11719.0

|2016 September 26

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|UR10

|7.2.12324.0

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|System Center Operations Manager 2019

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|10.19.10050.0

|2019 March 14

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|UR1

|10.19.10311.0

|2020 February 4

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|UR2

|10.19.10407.0

|2020 August 4

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|UR3

|10.19.10505.0

|2021 March 30

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|UR3 - Hotfix

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|2021 October 19

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|System Center Operations Manager 2022

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|10.22.10118.0

|2022 April 1

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|UR1

|10.22.10337.0

|2023 January 24

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See also

  • Microsoft System Center
  • Official SCOM Build Version List
  • System Center Configuration Manager
  • System Center Data Protection Manager
  • System Center Virtual Machine Manager
  • Microsoft Servers
  • Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • IBM Director

References

Literature

  • System Center Operations Manager
  • Microsoft Tech Net guide on MOM
  • Microsoft Operations Manager SDK (in MSDN)
  • Introducing System Center Operations Manager 2007 A tutorial by David Chappell, Chappell & Associates
  • Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Pack Authoring Guide (from UK TechNet)
  • TechNet Ramp Up: Learn how to install, implement and administer Operations Manager 2007 R2.
  • Blog of Blake Drumm
  • Blog of Kevin Holman regarding SCOM
  • Blog of Kevin Justin
  • Blog of Leon Laude for System Center
  • Blog of Tom Ziegler
  • Blog of Udish Mudiar