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HIGHLIGHT
MOM knows best! For Windows System Server monitoring, MOM's the word. This book shows system administrators how to use Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) to discover problems on their Windows Server System infrastructure before they affect users.
DESCRIPTION
Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) is a network monitoring tool that provides enterprise-class event and performance management for Windows Server System technologies. MOM's event and performance management tools discover problems before system administrators would ever find them, thereby enabling administrators to lower their costs of operations and simplify management of their Windows Server System infrastructure. MOM can notify system administrators of overloaded processors, depleted memory, or failed network connections affecting their Windows servers long before these problems bother users.
KEY SELLING POINTS
- Forrester Research, stated in white paper titled “Market Overview: Windows Server Platform Management,” that the market for Windows server platform management technologies will grow substanitally through at least 2007.
- Companion Web site for book will offer dozens of customized scripts and tools for automating MOM 2005 and many other Windows Server products.
- There is no competition for this core, Microsoft Server product.
MARKET INFORMATION
According to Thomas Mendel, a principal analyst at Forrester Research, enhancements that Microsoft has made to Microsoft Operations Manager will enable the product to gain ground in the Windows server management market. Mendel added that Microsoft “is set to become the No. 1 or No. 2 player in the Windows server platform management market within the next three years.”
COMPETING TITLES
There are no competing books.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tony Piltzecker (CISSP, MCSE, CCNA, Check Point CCSA, Citrix CCA), author of the CCSA Exam Cram, is the IT Operations Manager for SynQor, Inc., where he is responsible for the network design and support for multiple offices worldwide. Tony's specialties include network security design, implementation, and testing. Tony's background includes positions as a Senior Networking Consultant with Integrated Information Systems and a Senior Engineer with Private Networks, Inc. Tony holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, and is a member of ISSA.
TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND
Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 delivers open and scalable enterprise-class operational management by providing comprehensive event management, proactive monitoring and alerting, reporting and trend analysis, and system and application specific knowledge and tasks to improve the manageability of Windows Server System environments, including Windows, Exchange, SQL, IIS, Active Directory etc. |
