Introduction

When some years ago Microsoft announced the general availability of Operations Management Suite (OMS) during her flagship conference, Microsoft Ignite, it was a clear signal of a fundamental change in Microsoft's approach to and support for Linux and open source support workloads. Admittedly, organizations with investments in Microsoft's System Center have been able to monitor and manage various flavors of Linux systems using underlying tools, such as System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). With OMS, Microsoft makes available a hybrid management platform that offers heterogeneous support and enables the seamless management of cross-platform systems, in addition to Windows systems, while complementing capabilities of the System Center tools that you have investments in. OMS simplifies the management of your...