System Center Operations Manager 2012 Release Candidate Available Now

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27974


Summary of Changes

• Console changes, think Silverlight
• Improved Setup Wizard
• Highly Available Management Group due to architecture changes, think removal of RMS
• Resource Pooling, to distribute load and provide high availability without clustering
• Network Monitoring, leveraging a new SNMP stackand EMC Smarts acquired technology the product will be able to monitor many aspects of your network
• Application Monitoring, leveraging the Avicode acquisition deep application monitoring is now native to the product but somewhat limited to .NET applications
• New and Improved Dashboarding,  combined with widgets dashboarding will provide better visuals and insight into the monitored environment
• JEE Monitoring, provided by JEE Management Packs that monitor products such as IBM WebSphere, WebLogic, Apache Tomcat and more
• New PowerShell Module, think new PowerShell cmdlets to perform common administrator tasks

Console Changes

Architecture Changes
 
Network Monitoring




 Dashboarding with Widgets