System Center Operations Manager 2012

System Center Operations Manager 2012 (SCOM 2012) is the 4th generation of monitoring solution published by Microsoft.

Place in the product family
It followed System Center Operations Manager 2007. Unlike its predecessor which created a major shift in the System Center Operations Manager product family, SCOM 2012 kept the same core concepts and expanded the features.

It will be followed by System Center Operations Manager 2016.

Changes
The most remarkable changes are :
 * The removal of the Root Management Server (RMS) role by using a multi-master model among the Management Server.
 * The arrival of the Resource Pools feature to offer a failover strategy for monitored objects without failover (Unix agents, Network devices).
 * The integration of AVIcode as native SCOM feature known as Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
 * The revamping of the network device monitoring
 * The arrival of new dashboards and widgets.
 * An updated Web Console.
 * A update of the Management Pack format and the apparition of the Management Pack file format .mpb.

Releases
The product had several major upgrades through Releases and Service Packs.
 * System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1
 * System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2