Monitoring Service Levels With System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

This document discusses monitoring distributed applications and introduces the Service Level Dashboard 2.0. It provides objectives of understanding challenges in monitoring datacenters and introducing distributed, end-to-end service level monitoring. Key takeaways are that the new version allows for near real-time data, new service level tracking metrics, and uses Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 as its platform. The dashboard can help keep critical IT resources available and performing acceptably.