• Operations Manager is a completely seperate product sold by Microsoft. It's intention is for large scale enterprise level monitoring, reporting and alerting. Here's a place to learn a bit more about it (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310604.aspx?ppud=4)

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