As part of a development team we have shared DBA resources, and cannot access most of the "good" stuff about the server ourselves. That being said, we do have a DBA-type database on each server as well as a centralized database where all the data is collected. We mainly store job run information so we can monitor the jobs and capture error information to help with error recovery rather than digging through the job history in SSMS. Using a query is much faster and much more informative.