 | Manage alerts, rules, performance and deliver reports using the same Operations Manager tools as are used for the Windows domain – Minimize complexity and reliance on disparate information from redundant tools. | | Base OS Instrumentation Packs – Monitor non-Windows OS performance data and generate events specific to CPU, memory consumption, swap utilization/activity, storage and network bandwidth from within Operations Manager. |
| Remote management requiring nothing to be installed on your hosts - Flexibility and Ease of Deployment. | | Integrated Automation Command Interface – Add automation commands with a few clicks to maximize resources and ensure uptime. |
| Integration with Microsoft’s Audit Collection Services (ACS) – Ensure your organization meets compliance and security standards. | | Management Pack/Instrumentation Pack SDK – Use Windows scripting to further extend the non-Windows monitoring and automation rules . Intimate knowledge of *nix scripting not required. |
| Rule Processing – Provides processing of Operations Manager Rules for non-Windows systems at the host level, enhancing scalability, reliability and TCO. | | Syslog and Single Line Log File Providers – Each line in syslog or the log file of your choice can be converted into an event to be processed by Operations Manager and/or included in Audit Collection Services (ACS) or InTrust. |
| Event Collections – Fully supported performance data collections appear side by side with Windows-based agent data. | | Clone Feature for Instance-Aware Monitoring – Requires only one license per node regardless of number of instances. Use the clone feature to define the same node once for each instance. |