1.5. Additional Components

The MOM 2005 components introduced so far are directly involved with the creation of an alert, the management of an alert, and the storage of an alert. But these are not all the components available. This section introduces other components and gives an overview of where they fit and their purpose. Figure 1-16 shows these additional components; however, note that none of these are involved with the generation of an alert.

1.5.1. Administrator Console

While the Operator console is used to consume and manage the alert, event, performance, and status data that MOM 2005 produces, the Administrator console (point 1 in Figure 1-16) is used to manage the configuration of MOM 2005. The Administrator console performs most of its work through the DAS on the MOM 2005 management server, but for some specific tasks, it works directly with MOMService.exe. Like the Operator console, the Administrator console is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.