In Operations Manager we are provided Diagram views. These views provide the user insight into the health of any object discovered by the product by graphical representation. This form is the easiest for most people to consume. These visuals are nice if you want to know that health of your object(s) but what about the other data that's being collected? My question is why don't we add some more flavor to these views? We have all this data we are collecting with the product and storing for lengthy periods of time (out of the box), let's show some more of it in a manner to which makes sense, diagrams. Don't leave this functionality to third party vendors I say, bake it into the product and leave your user base in a satisfied state with yet another enhancement to the product.
Today's Diagrams
A small sample of what I propose. The configuration of the following graph is fairly simple. The client was monitoring a web application with SCOM and had watchers nodes spread across to country to simulate both the availability and performance aspects of the application. Each of the watcher nodes were configured to gather response time as a performance metric. As a result that data is available to us through the databases so I was able to query it out and apply it to the objects. However this is not native and took some customization to do. The same actions are happening today within the product except for the monitors, so why not take it a step further and provide that performance related information?
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