Please sir, can I have some more data?

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DAVE KEARNS ON WINDOWS NETWORKING TIPS
10/19/05
Today's focus: Please sir, can I have some more data?

Dear networking.world@gmail.com,

In this issue:

* Microsoft releases beta version of System Center Reporting
Manager 2005 for data management
* Links related to Windows Networking Tips
* Featured reader resource
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Today's focus: Please sir, can I have some more data?

By Dave Kearns

Are you a data junkie? When it comes to your network, your
servers and your desktops, do you feel that the more data you
have the better you can manage the network? If so, how much time
do you spend searching through that data for the right nuggets
of information that will not only help you manage your
environment better but also justify the time you spend looking?

If that describes you, Microsoft has a new tool - just released
to beta testing - that could be very useful to you.

System Center Reporting Manager 2005 promises to be a tool to
enable enterprise analysis of management data so that IT
administrators, managers and executives can query, report, and
forecast IT operations to deliver higher service quality at a
lower price. That's quite a tall order. But System Center
Reporting Manager (SCRM) appears to have the functionality to do
just that. (You can get your hands on the beta at the Microsoft
Beta Web site <http://www.beta.microsoft.com/>.)

The heart of SCRM is a new facility that integrates
multi-management groups from Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
and multiple Systems Management Server (SMS) operational
databases into a single data warehouse for easier, quicker
abstracting and reporting. Among the many benefits claimed for
the service are:

* A single, centralized, and simplified query and report
authoring tool extending across MOM and SMS historical data, as
well as business context data, to enable reporting scenarios
that are not possible with the current SMS and MOM reports.
* Offloading of expensive decision support operations from the
SMS Central Site server while simultaneously improving
performance of key queries and reports.
* Clear value for "SMS-only" customers through new reports and
new analytical scenarios (such as deployment status by cost
center).
* Clear value for "MOM only" customers with about 150 new,
centralized reports across multiple MOM 2005 management groups.

* A Web-based reporting front end usable from any desktop using
SQL Reporting Services without requiring client-side software to
be installed.
* The ability to create additional reports and queries that can
be shared using a community driven process.
* Delivers a new set of predefined reports that are designed for
IT managers and business executives.

If you are already using MOM, SMS or both, you ought to get the
beta version of System Center Reporting Manager 2005 and see if
it can help you manage your network more effectively and more
efficiently.

The top 5: Today's most-read stories

1. Cisco finally brings security push to LAN
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt9209>
2. Nortel replaces CEO Bill Owens
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt9210>
3. Help Desk: When the Windows VPN doesn't work
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt9211>
4. Microsoft cuts costs of virtual servers
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt9212>
5. WiMAX just around the corner
<http://www.networkworld.com/nlwnt9213>

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To contact: Dave Kearns

Dave Kearns is a writer and consultant in Silicon Valley. He's
written a number of books including the (sadly) now out of print
"Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Networks." His musings can be
found at Virtual Quill <http://www.vquill.com/>.

Kearns is the author of three Network World Newsletters: Windows
Networking Tips, Novell NetWare Tips, and Identity Management.
Comments about these newsletters should be sent to him at these

respective addresses: <mailto:windows@vquill.com>,
<mailto:netware@vquill.com>, <mailto:identity@vquill.com>.

Kearns provides content services to network vendors: books,
manuals, white papers, lectures and seminars, marketing,
technical marketing and support documents. Virtual Quill
provides "words to sell by..." Find out more by e-mail at
<mailto:info@vquill.com>
_______________________________________________________________
This newsletter is sponsored by Arbor Networks

Network Perimeter defense has become an industry in of itself.
But what if the danger to your network lurks from within - a
disgruntled employee, misuse of a VPN, 3rd party access,
employee access for personal reasons? In the following report,
Internal Intrusion Prevention, read about this threat and
providing multidimensional protection.
http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=117654
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