Data Center
Microsoft System Center 2012
Hallelujah to Microsoft for finally seeing the bigger picture. The
company this year unveiled System Center 2012, which not only
reduces the number of licensing options associated with its server
tools from more than a hundred to just two, it also can recognize
and manage multiple servers at once. A new Dashboard shows
servers of different types listed in a tree style view with simple
step-by-step configuration setup steps and a pane for servers listed
by role and group.
A foolproof interface is also presented for configuring servers,
adding roles, finding other servers to manage and combining
machines for management as a group. Servers, server groups
and other manageable resources are displayed as tiles with
stats about each resource’s major functions. Resources in need
of administrator attention and/or action are highlighted in red
and are easy to spot. Drilling into a stat presents a dialog box
listing those events, services or alerts.
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