One of the great benefits of SC OM2k7 is the historical information derived from the Agents when offering Alerting, Monitoring, Health Explorer, Performance and Configuration information to the SC OM2k7 Management Server(s). SC OM2k7 is 'different' from MOM2k5 SP1 in that the 'Reporting Services' Data Warehouse data is collected in realtime (as opposed to a SQL Data Transformation Service (SQL DTS) Batch Job). The following Screen Captures are the installation of SC OM2k7 Reporting Services on a SQL2k5 SP1 Reporting Services Instance. You will find the Base SC OM2k7 Installation Steps here. SC OM2k7 RTM (in the Blog entry references in the prior line) SQL2k5 with Reporting Services SQL2k5 SP1
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This Blog entry references the download location of the Microsoft SQL 2000/2005 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007. The Version referenced for download is SQL 2000/2005 Management Pack - V6.0.6247.5.