Operator

An operator is the name given to a person using the solution SCOM to monitor the health and performance of systems and resolving alerts.

General meaning
The term is frequently used to describe informally any person working with SCOM to monitor the health and performance of systems in the IT environment. The term might describe loosely different profiles: The term also differs from an Administrator in the sense that it focus on the actual monitoring and exclude the administration of the SCOM platform (Updating the Cumulative Updates, deploying new Management Server). While an administrator might as well work with the actual monitoring than with the platform administration.
 * 1) A person working full-time with SCOM to monitor systems and resolve alerts through different means (Operations Console, Web Console, notification emails).
 * 2) A person working in an IT operations team using SCOM among other tools to resolve issues in the IT environment of an organization (Help desk, Service Desk).
 * 3) An application owner who almost never work with SCOM but who would have an interest in knowing when its application encounter issues an generate alerts.

User Role
In a Management Group, Operator is the name of a formal User Role found in the Operations Console under the Administration pane. It grants permissions to its member to open and interact with the Monitoring pane of the Operations Console.

Typically operators have permissions to display and close alerts, override Management Pack elements such as monitor and rules.