Components of System Center 2012 R2

Components of System Center 2012 R2

Operations Manager

Operations Manager helps monitor services, devices, and operations for many computers in a single console. Operators can gain rapid insight into the state of the IT environment and the IT services running across different systems and workloads by using numerous views that show state, health, and performance information, as well as alerts generated for availability, performance, configuration and security situations.

Infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting

Microsoft and 3rd party workload monitoring

Cloud monitoring including Azure

System state, health, and performance information

Configuration Manager

Configuration Manager increases IT productivity and efficiency by reducing manual tasks and letting you focus on high-value projects, maximize hardware and software investments, and empower end-user productivity by providing the right software at the right time. Configuration Manager helps to deliver more effective IT services by enabling secure and scalable software deployment, compliance settings management, and comprehensive asset management of servers, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices.

Flexible OS deployment

Compliance and settings management

Asset intelligence and inventory

Application Delivery

Patch Management

Client health and monitoring

Device Management

Virtual Machine Manager

Virtual Machine Manager is a management solution for the virtualized datacenter, enabling you to configure and manage your virtualization host, networking, and storage resources in order to create and deploy virtual machines and services to private clouds that you have created.

VM and private cloud management

Storage and network management

Heterogeneous VM host support

Template driven workload deployment

Orchestrator

Orchestrator is a workflow management solution for the data center. Orchestrator enables you automate the creation, monitoring, and deployment of resources in your environment.

Workflow automation

Visual Runbook authoring

Cross-platform workflow integration

Data Protection Manager

Data Protection Manager is an enterprise backup system. Using DPM you can backup (copy) data from a source location to a target secondary location. If original data is unavailable because of planned or unexpected issues, you can restore data from the secondary location. Using DPM you can back up application data from Microsoft servers and workloads, and file data from servers and client computers. You can create full backups, incremental backups, differential backups, and bare-metal backups to completely restore a system.

Centralized backup for VMs and applications

Item-level recovery for VMs

Archiving backup data to Azure

Service Manager

Service Manager provides an integrated platform for automating and adapting your organization’s IT service management best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). It provides built-in processes for incident and problem resolution, change control, and asset lifecycle management.

Service catalog

Self-service request portal

Release and SLA management

Data warehousing and reporting

Incident and change requests

App Controller

App Controller provides a common self-service experience that can help you easily configure, deploy, and manage virtual machines and services across private and public clouds.

Cross cloud provisioning

VM and application self-service

Endpoint Protection

Endpoint Protection provides an antimalware and security solution for the Microsoft platform.

Malware protection, identification, and remediation