Chapter 15: Reporting

Overview

By now you understand the concepts related to IT operations, and how Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 and Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 can be used together to provide support to IT for operations and systems management.

You also know how MOM 2005 and SMS 2003 collect data from the different systems those applications monitor. In this chapter, we explore how to access that data through reports. You will become familiar with:

• SMS queries

• SMS reports

• MOM Reporting Server

• MOM Reporting Console