System Center 2012 – Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public.

System Requirements for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Lists the hardware and software requirements for installing Operations Manager.

Upgrading System Center 2012 SP1 - Operations Manager to System Center 2012 R2 The procedure for upgrading from System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) – Operations Manager to System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.

Upgrading System Center 2012 – Operations Manager to System Center 2012 SP1 The procedure for upgrading from System Center 2012 – Operations Manager to System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) – Operations Manager.

Deploying System Center 2012 - Operations Manager The Deployment Guide contains installation procedures for multiple deployment scenarios and instructions for upgrading an Operations Manager 2007 R2 management group to Operations Manager.

Operations Guide for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager The Operations Guide includes administrative, monitoring, reporting, and operating tasks typically performed by an administrator or operator. It follows the Deployment Guide in order of use during an Operations Manager implementation project, but does not assume that the administrator or operator participated in the installation of the Operations Manager infrastructure.

Authoring for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager The Author's Guide explains how to create rules, monitors, and monitoring solutions.

Report Authoring for System Center 2012 - Operations Manager The guidance for authoring custom reports for Operations Manager has not changed in System Center 2012. This topic provides a link to the Report Authoring Guide for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.

Cmdlets in System Center 2012 - Operations Manager This documentation provides an online version of the cmdlet help that is available in the Operations Manager Shell for System Center core cmdlets, Operations Manager cmdlets, and cross-platform cmdlets.

Operations Manager for System Center 2012 Privacy Statement The Privacy Statement explains many of the data collection and use practices of Operations Manager. This privacy statement focuses on features that communicate with the Internet and is not intended to be an exhaustive list. It does not apply to other online or offline Microsoft sites, products or services.