Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
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Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

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About This Book

A beginner's guide to help you design, deploy and administer your System Center Operations Manager 2016 and 2012 R2 environments

About This Book

  • Discover how to monitor complex IT environments with System Center Operations Manager using tips, tricks and best practice recommendations from industry experts.
  • Learn how to create eye-catching dashboards and reports to help deliver a tangible return on investment back to your organization.
  • Optimize, troubleshoot and perform disaster recovery in Operations Manager using step by step examples based on real-world scenarios.

Who This Book Is For

The target audience for this book is the IT Pro or System Administrator who wants to deploy and use System Center Operations Manager but has no previous knowledge of the product.

As a ?etting Started' book, our primary objective is to equip you with the knowledge you need to feel comfortable when working with common monitoring scenarios in OpsMgr. With this in mind, deep-diving into less-common OpsMgr features such as Audit Collection Services (ACS), Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) has been intentionally omitted.

What You Will Learn

  • Install a new System Center 2016 Operations Manager Management Group
  • Design and provision custom views to relevant support teams.
  • Understand how to deploy agents
  • Work with management packs
  • Monitor network devices
  • Model your IT services with distributed applications
  • Create dashboards and custom visualizations
  • Tune, optimize, maintain and troubleshoot System Center Operations Manager

In Detail

Most modern IT environments comprise a heterogeneous mixture of servers, network devices, virtual hypervisors, storage solutions, cross-platform operating systems and applications. All this complexity brings a requirement to deliver a centralized monitoring and reporting solution that can help IT administrators quickly identify where the problems are and how best to resolve them.

Using System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr), administrators get a full monitoring overview of the IT services they have responsibility for across the organization - along with some useful management capabilities to help them remediate any issues they've been alerted to.

This book begins with an introduction to OpsMgr and its core concepts and then walks you through designing and deploying the various roles. After a chapter on exploring the consoles, you will learn how to deploy agents, work with management packs, configure network monitoring and model your IT services using distributed applications. There's a chapter dedicated to alert tuning and another that demonstrates how to visualize your IT using dashboards. The final chapters in the book discuss how to create alert subscriptions, manage reports, backup and recover OpsMgr, perform maintenance and troubleshoot common problems.

Style and approach

A beginner's guide that focuses on providing the practical skills required to effectively deploy and administer OpsMgr with walkthrough examples and tips on all the key concepts.

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Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2016
ISBN
9781785289743
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Operating Systems
Index
Computer Science

Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Table of Contents

Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Instant updates on new Packt books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introduction to System Center Operations Manager
System Center overview
Introducing Operations Manager
IT as a Service explained
Operations Manager core features
Management group
Operational database
Data Warehouse database
RMS Emulator
Management Server
Reporting Server
Gateway Server
Agents
Consoles
Management packs
Application Performance Monitoring
Network device monitoring
Audit Collection Services
Agentless Exception Monitoring
Minimum installation requirements
OpsMgr Sizing Helper tool
Virtualization support
Database requirements
Operating system requirements
Web console requirements
Firewall requirements
Windows agent requirements
UNIX/Linux agent requirements
Summary
2. Installing System Center Operations Manager
Designing the environment
Design examples
Single server design
Small distributed server design
Medium distributed server design
Large distributed server design
Creating the service accounts
Creating an OpsMgr security group
Tips for deploying SQL
SQL features and collation setting
SQL Server authentication mode
SQL Server administrators
Configuring SQL memory allocation
Configuring the prerequisites
Operations console prerequisites
Web console prerequisites
Granting Local Administrator rights
Installing your first Management server
Introducing our example organization
Installing additional Management servers
Installing the Reporting server
Deploying the Web console
Deploying a Gateway server
Summary
3. Exploring the Consoles
Operations console overview
Deploying the console
Connecting to the console
The Monitoring Overview page
Navigating the workspaces
Exploring the Monitoring workspace
Understanding folders
Working with Views
Alert View
Event View
State View
Performance View
Diagram View
Task Status View
Web Page View
Dashboard View
Exploring the Authoring workspace
Management Pack Templates
Distributed Applications
Groups
Management Pack Objects
Introduction to the Reporting workspace
Exploring the Administration workspace
Connected Management Groups
Device Management
Management Packs
Network Management
Notifications
Operations Management Suite
Partner Solutions
Product Connectors
Resource Pools
Run As Configuration
Accounts
Profiles
UNIX/Linux Accounts
Security
Creating a New User Role
Settings
Agent: Heartbeat
General: Alerts
General: Database Grooming
General: Privacy
General: Reporting
General: Web Addresses
Server: Heartbeat
Server: Security
Getting personal with My Workspace
Favorite Views
Saved Searches
Introduction to the Web console
Summary
4. Deploying Agents
Agent-based monitoring
Agentless monitoring
Deploying Microsoft Windows agents
Windows agent requirements
Using the console to deploy agents
Using a Gateway Server to deploy untrusted agents
Manual agent deployment
Active Directory Integration
Working with multiple Management Groups
Configuring multihoming
Push installation method
Manual configuration method
Removing multihoming
Agent management
Agent actions explained
Properties
Change primary management server
Repair
Uninstall
Delete
Opening agent views
Deploying UNIX/Linux agents
UNIX/Linux agent requirements
Creating a resource pool
Deployment process
Summary
5. Working with Management Packs
Management packs overview
Sealed management packs
Unsealed management packs
What's inside a management pack?
Classes (Object types)
Relationships
Hosting relationship
Containment relationship
Reference relationship
Discoveries
Monitors
Unit monitors
Dependency rollup monitors
Aggregate rollup monitors
Rules
Views
Tasks
Console tasks
Agent tasks
Diagnostic tasks
Recovery tasks
Reports
Groups
Finding management packs
MP Wiki
OpsMgr MP Catalog
Downloading management pack guides from the catalog
Updates and Recommendations
Get MP action
Get All MPs action
View Guide action
View DLC Page action
More Information action
Locating non-Microsoft management packs
The 'Unofficial' System Center catalog
SystemCenterCentral.com
SystemCenterCore.com
Importing management packs
Extracting the files
Deploying the management pack
Creating a custom overrides management pack
Management pack dependencies
Verifying discoveries
Configuring Run As profiles
Agent proxy not enabled
Exporting unsealed management packs
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