Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

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Operations Manager 2007 R2 helps reduce the cost of datacenter management with end-to-end monitoring and management of Microsoft, UNIX, and Linux servers and workloads, while assuring delivery of IT services to expected and agreed levels. Upon downloading the 180-day trial software, you're automatically registered to receive valuable resources delivered at convenient intervals throughout the software evaluation period.

New Functionality of Operations Manager 2007 R2

Operations Manager 2007 R2 introduces key new and enhanced functionality, including:

• Enhanced application performance and availability across heterogeneous platforms
  
  • Delivers monitoring across Windows, Linux and UNIX servers–all through a single console.
  • Extends end to end monitoring of distributed applications to any workload running on Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms.
  • Maximize availability of virtual workloads with integration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.
• Improved management of applications in the data center
  
  • Delivers on the scale requirements of URL monitoring of your business.
  • Meet agreed service levels with enhanced reporting showing application performance and availability.
  • More efficient problem identification and action to resolve issues.
• Increased speed of access to information and functionality to drive management
  
  • Faster load times for views and results.
  • Improved and simplified management pack authoring experience

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Operations Manager 2007 R2 Recommended Hardware Requirements

• Operations Manager Operations database
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 4 GB of RAM or higher
  • 50 GB of available hard disk space
• Root management server
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 4 GB of RAM or more
  • 20 GB of available hard disk space
• Management server
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 2 GB of RAM or more
  • 20 GB of available hard disk space
• Operations console
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 2 GB of RAM or more
  • 20 GB of available hard disk space
• Authoring console
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 2 GB of RAM or more
  • 20 GB of available hard disk space
• Reporting data warehouse
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 4 GB of RAM or more
  • 100 GB of available hard disk space
• Reporting server
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 2 GB or more
  • 20 GB of available hard disk space
• gateway server
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 2 GB of RAM or more
  • 20 GB of available hard disk space
• Web console server
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 2 GB of RAM or more
  • 20 GB of available hard disk space
• Audit database
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 4 GB of RAM or more
  • 100 GB of available hard disk space
• Management server with audit collector
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 2 GB of RAM or more
  • 50 GB of available hard disk space
• Management server with Agentless Exception Monitoring file share
  
  • 2.8 GHz or faster
  • 2 GB of RAM or more
  • 30 GB of available hard disk space
• Agent
  
  • Please refer to the recommended hardware requirement required by the operating system.

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Software Requirement

• Operations Manager Operations database
  
  • SQL Server 2005 Standard or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2, or Service Pack 3, or SQL Server 2008 with Service Pack 1.
• Management server and root management server
  
  • .NET Framework 2.0
  • .NET Framework 3.0
  • Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
    
  • WS-MAN v1.1 (this is only needed if UNIX\Linux computers will be monitored)
• Reporting server
  
  • .NET Framework 3.0
    
  • SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services with Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2, or Service Pack 3, or SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services with Service Pack 1
• gateway server
  
  • .NET Framework 2.0
    
  • Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
• Reporting data warehouse
  
  • SQL Server 2005 Standard or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1, Service Pack 2, or Service Pack 3, or SQL Server 2008 with Service Pack 1.
• Audit collection database
  
  • SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition or SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1, Service Pack2, or Service Pack 3, or SQL Server 2008 with Service Pack 1.
• Operations console
  
  • .NET Framework 2.0
    
  • .NET Framework 3.0
    
  • Optionally, Microsoft Windows PowerShell. It is required for the Operations Manager 2007 Command Shell.
    
  • Optionally, Microsoft Office Word 2003 with the .NET Programmability feature and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System. They are required to create or edit management pack knowledge data.
• Web console server
  
  • .NET Framework 2.0
    
  • .NET Framework 3.0
    
  • Internet Information Services, an optional component of Windows Server 2003.
    
  • ASP.NET, an optional component of Windows Server 2003
    
  • Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0
• Agent
  
  • Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
• Authoring console
  
  • .NET Framework 2.0
    
  • .NET Framework 3.0
    
  • .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
    
  • Optionally, Microsoft Windows PowerShell. It is required for the Operations Manager 2007 Command Shell.
    
  • Optionally, Microsoft Office Word 2003 with the .NET Programmability feature and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System. They are required to create or edit management pack knowledge data.