To learn more about the Operations Manager consoles, see Comparing the Operations Manager Consoles in the Operations Guide. The Operations console, shown in the following image, enables you to check the health, performance, and availability for all the monitored objects in the environment and helps you identify and resolve problems. Using Operations Manager in the environment makes it easier to monitor multiple computers, devices, services, and applications. The more the computers and devices in the business, the more challenging this task becomes.
That means that IT departments need to know when there's a problem, identify where the problem is, and figure out what is causing the problem, ideally before the users of the applications encounter the problems. IT departments are responsible for ensuring the performance and availability of those critical services and applications. What Operations Manager doesīusinesses, small and large, are typically dependent on the services and applications provided by their computing environment. This article explains the basic concepts about Operations Manager for the administrator who manages the Operations Manager infrastructure and the operator who monitors and supports the IT services for your business. Operations Manager, a component of Microsoft System Center, is software that helps you monitor services, devices, and operations for many computers from a single console.
We recommend you to upgrade to Operations Manager 2022. This version of Operations Manager has reached the end of support.