Specifications

Best Practices for Virtualizing and Managing Exchange 2013
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Operations Manager
Microsoft has a long history of defining and refining monitoring capabilities for its products. System
Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager continues this tradition as a solution with a deeper level of insight
and improved scalability. With Operations Manager, your organization can gain levels of visibility into its
infrastructure at every level of the stack, helping to ensure that the infrastructure is optimized and running
efficiently. Fundamentally, Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost
effective, better ensures the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers
comprehensive oversight of your data center and cloud—both private and public.
Operations Manager enables IT administrators to monitor services, devices, and operations for many
computers in a single console (Figure 56). Operations Manager includes numerous views that show state,
health, and performance information, as well as alerts generated for availability, performance,
configuration, and security situations. With these tools, you can gain rapid insight into the state of the IT
environment and the IT services running across different systems and workloads.
Figure 56: Dashboard in Operations Manager
Exchange 2013 Management Pack
The ability to provide end-to-end management across infrastructure is a critical step in ensuring the
health of the hosts and clusters, virtual machines, and private cloud itself. Further, Operations Manager
can be used to monitor mission-critical Exchange Server workloads using the Exchange 2013
Management Pack.