System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides the monitoring component of cloud and datacenter solutions, to help you manage your datacenter and cloud environments by:
Delivering flexible and cost effective enterprise-class monitoring and diagnostics while reducing the total cost of ownership by leveraging commodity hardware, with standard configurations to monitor heterogeneous environments.
Helping to ensure the availability of business-critical applications and services through market-leading .NET application performance monitoring and diagnostics plus JEE application health monitoring.
Providing a comprehensive view of datacenters, and private and public clouds.

Feature Summary
Predictable performance and availability of critical applications
End-to-end views of application health and topology
Establishment of application service-level delivery (SLAs)
Precise identification of application errors
Flexible and cost-effective infrastructure monitoring
In-depth monitoring, diagnostics, and reporting for heterogeneous environments
Integrated network device monitoring and alerts
Simplified management infrastructure
Comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud—on your terms
Integrated physical, virtual, and cloud management
Common console across datacenter and clouds
Rich reporting