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Q1: What is Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005?

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 is an event and performance management tool for Windows Server System.

MOM 2005 improves the manageability of your infrastructure by providing:

Comprehensive event management

Proactive monitoring and alerting

Reporting and trend analysis

System and application-specific knowledge from the experts

Q2: How does MOM 2005 relate to the Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI), Microsoft’s long term management strategy?

DSI is an industry-wide initiative led by Microsoft aimed at delivering software that maximizes resources and decreases labor costs across the entire IT life cycle by designing manageability into all components.

By driving operational requirements back into IT systems at design time, a strong connection can be created between system design through operation of IT systems, and ultimately the end users using the business applications.

MOM 2005 is a key component of DSI, and the development of MOM management packs by the application developers is an example of 'designing for operations', a pillar of DSI.

Q3: If I have another operations management solution, do I still need MOM?

Managing the Microsoft components is an important subset of managing a heterogeneous enterprise. Integration between the Microsoft management tools and third party corporate-wide management systems is necessary to proactively manage and maintain the entire IT environment.

To simplify and facilitate integration with other management tools in the enterprise, MOM 2005 includes the web services-based MOM Connector Framework (MCF).

The MCF web service provides a generalized abstraction of the MOM 2005 alerting infrastructure, resulting in the ability to:

Identify and surface MOM 2005 alerts to be forwarded to another management system

Insert alerts from other management systems and display them in the MOM 2005 Operator console along with alerts generated by MOM 2005

Track which alerts have been forwarded to another management system, and when they require updating

Synchronize alerts between management systems, reducing duplicate efforts for alert tracking and updating

Q4: What is MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition?

MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition, previously known as MOM 'Express' is a limited version of MOM 2005 aimed at managing 10 servers or less.

MOM 2005 Workgroup Edition provides a subset of the full MOM 2005 functionality.

Q5: Has the licensing model for MOM 2005 changed?

Yes, MOM 2005 is changing from a per-processor model to a server plus managed device licensing model.

This is similar to the SMS server/CAL licensing model, where we are leveraging a charge for the server, and an additional charge for each server managed by MOM.

Q6: Does that mean you need a MOM server license as well as a separate license for each managed server?

Yes - in addition to the license required for your MOM 2005 server, devices managed by MOM 2005 require an Operations Management License (OML).

Q7: Do you need an OML license for all the MOM servers in the MOM infrastructure?

No. A MOM 2005 server license is required for each MOM 2005 server in your infrastructure, and an Operations Management License (OML) is required for each server managed by MOM, including the SQL server supporting MOM 2005 reporting activities.

Q8: How would MOM 2000 customers with per processor licenses upgrade to this new per server licensing model?

MOM 2000 customers with MOM 2000 Base and MOM 2000 Application Management Pack (AMP) licenses enrolled in upgrade protection coverage, Upgrade Advantage/Software, Assurance/Enterprise Agreement (UA/SA/EA) as of October 1, 2004, may migrate through such upgrade protection to MOM 2005.

Each MOM 2000 Base license is upgradeable to either one MOM 2005 server license, or to one MOM 2005 Operations Management License (OML).

Each MOM 2000 Application Management Pack (AMP) license is upgradeable to either one MOM 2005 server license or one MOM 2005 Operations Management License (OML).

Q9: Does this mean the Application Management Pack (AMP) licenses are now also replaced by OML’s?

No. For MOM 2000, separate Application Management Pack (AMP) licenses were required to use the knowledge contained in management packs.

Going forward, as advanced management packs are developed for Windows Server System products, the rights to use those management packs will be included in the respective products or MOM 2005 server licenses.

MOM 2005 will not require Application Management Pack licenses – the OML provides the right to manage the device including all Windows Server System components.

Q10: Are there any pre-requisites for the MOM 2005 Server?

Yes, MOM 2005 requires a SQL Server 2000 License.

A valid SQL license can be obtained either standalone by purchasing a SQL license either per processor or on a server/CAL basis.

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