System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a Microsoft product that manages Windows Server Systems. It enables event, health and performance monitoring and also provides the capability to highlight relevant and important information to help prevent issues from going unseen.
Management Packs are provided in Enterprise Server to define specific rules and monitors. In addition, they provide a means of discovering instances of enterprise server instances and their properties, monitoring of the Windows Event Log for key messages and displaying performance counter data.
Integration with Operations Manager requires a SCOM agent to be deployed to each machine that is to be managed. This agent monitors events and performance data based upon rules defined in the Management Packs. For information on how to deploy SCOM agents, refer to the System Center Operations Manager documentation.
There are three Enterprise Server Management Packs: