System Center Operations Manager

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a monitoring solution developed by Microsoft. It is a component of a larger data center management suite called System Center.

It typically works by running monitoring workflows through agents deployed on monitored servers. The workflows are defined in XML-like configuration files called Management Packs. There is usually one Management Pack per application.

There are several versions of SCOM released since the first version in 2000. Each major version of the solution had updates during the life cycle called Releases, Service Packs and Cumulative Updates.
 * Microsoft Operations Manager 2000
 * Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
 * System Center Operations Manager 2007
 * System Center Operations Manager 2012
 * System Center Operations Manager 2016