"Today at PDC (Microsoft Professional Developers Conference), we are announcing a number of exciting partner efforts that offer enterprise customers advanced management functionality," said David Hamilton, director of the Enterprise Management Division at Microsoft Corp. "Through a new Web services-based MOM Connector Framework and range of new Management Packs from our industry partners, MOM helps keep mission-critical applications and systems running smoothly."

MetiLinx has also announced a new product called MetiLinx Connector for MOM which virtualizes and unifies heterogeneous Microsoft systems management server environments. The combination of MetiLinx with MOM provides a full solution for management and monitoring for Microsoft and non-Microsoft systems. Users can use MetiLinx Connector to allow them to view all of their varied IT systems through one familiar MOM interface.

MetiLinx Connector enhances MOM to virtualize and automate heterogeneous enterprise server environments to offer:

• Monitoring and analysis support beyond Windows server operating systems.
• MOM-based management and monitoring of non-Microsoft databases and servers.
• Centralized Alerting and problem detection of service levels and performance issues.
• Advanced analysis and reporting for capacity management, performance tuning and other system management solutions.

In another announcement related to MOM, Computer Associates (CA) announced a new solution, Unicenter Web Services Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager, that it will provide administrators of MOM with visibility into the health and status of enterprise Web services, enabling them to track and manage business processes across .NET environments.

Unicenter WSDM delivers business-level and IT-level management of .NET Web services environments, including real-time alerts and other management tools. By linking Unicenter WSDM's capabilities to MOM, the new CA management pack delivers broad management of. NET-enabled business systems - enabling Microsoft users to instantly detect any problems that could threaten performance or availability of critical services.