Topic summary
System Center
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Microsoft Servers.
Microsoft System Center
- System Center Advisor: Software-as-a-service offering that helps change or assess the configuration of Microsoft Servers software over the Internet
- System Center App Controller: Unified management for public and private clouds, including cloud-based virtual machines and services
- System Center Capacity Planner: Provides purchasing and best-practice capacity planning guidance
- Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager: Configuration management, asset management, patch deployment tools for Windows desktops (previously Systems Management Server); includes Software Center.
- System Center Data Protection Manager: Continuous data protection and data recovery
- System Center Endpoint Protection: Anti-malware and security tools for Microsoft products
- System Center Essentials: Combined features of Operations Manager and Windows Software Update Services (WSUS), aimed at small and medium-sized businesses
- System Center Orchestrator (formerly Opalis): An automation platform for orchestrating and integrating administrative tools to decrease the cost of datacenter operations while improving the reliability of IT processes. It enables organizations to automate best practices, such as those found in Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and ITIL. Orchestrator operates through workflow processes that coordinate System Center and other management tools to automate incident response, change and compliance, and service-lifecycle management processes.
- System Center Operations Manager: Services and application monitoring
- System Center Service Manager: Ties in with SCOM, SCCM for asset tracking as well as incident, problem, change and configuration management (code name: Service Desk)
- System Center Virtual Machine Manager: Virtual-machine management and datacenter virtualization