Features of System Center Operation Manager 2012

To boost up the performance of infrastructure services, Microsoft has released System Center Operation Manager 2012 Beta or SCOM2012. For supporting public as well as private cloud for link resources, this application is flawless. You can easily download this application from the Microsoft official webpage. System Center Operation Manager 2012 Beta has leveled up to well utilization of resources than Operation Manager 2007R2.

New Features of System Center Operation Center 2012 Beta:
This unique out of the box discovery is generally stepped up for reporting as well as monitoring. Some outstanding features of System Center Operating Manager 2012 Beta are: multi protocol support, multi vendor support, IPv4 and IPv6, SNMPv1/v2c/v3 as well as it has a robust building platform for the partners.
For starting the monitoring work, you have to run the Wizard of Discovery. This Wizard may seem similar to the feature like IPv6 and SNMP v3 support because the bits of network monitoring are rewritten from the ground up. By running the discovery wizard, you can discover VLAN membership, connectivity, main component of a device, HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol) group, processor, port, memory as well as edging of switch ports to server NICs (Network Interface Cards). The new process discovery comprises with three stages: Probing, Processing in addition to Post Processing. Two modes have enriched this new process – Explicit as well as Recursive.

You can run the discovery when you want. It maintains a single rule for per Management/Gateway server. “Limited discovery” is the new feature of System Center Operation Manger 2012 Beta, which can be generated by the traps of device from definite device vendors such as Cisco.
After discovering the device, you can monitor admin and operational status, inbound and outbound traffic volume, percentage of utilization in addition to broadcasts and drop rates. Beside these, you can monitor Connection Health, HSRP group and VLAN Health. System Center Operation Manager 2012 has launched with “Pools” concept. That means Network Monitoring prop ups these management servers’ pools. It can monitor certain ports by default. If you think this isn’t enough then you can easily enable monitoring for additional ports.
According to the concept of “dashboards”, network monitoring comprises with four dashboards: Network Summary, Network Node, Network Interface and Vicinity.

System Center Operation Manager provides many reports utilization of memory, utilization of processor, analysis for port error, port traffic volume and analysis for port packet.

To save overrides to a parted management pack by facilitating alleviation of managing management packs, System Center Operation Manager 2012 is always considered as the best practice. Its default type behavior is always ready to save overrides to the default management pack. However, saving overrides to the default management pack may create many problems in the future. But System Center Operation Manager 2012 is dominating to solve this issue by not using default management pack. You will be able to monitor JEE and .NET application performance with the blessings of SCOM2012.
System Center Operation Manager 2012 Beta is a great innovation. It is a comprehensive, robust tool of monitoring which may be operated successfully for Windows Systems, Linux/UNIX System as well as network devices. Microsoft has brought this product with unique features for improving your business.