Book description
Learn how to deploy, configure, and maintain System Center Operations Manager with 50 recipes designed to help you meet the challenges of managing a complex IT system
In Detail
As organizations become more and more dependent upon a powerful IT infrastructure, there is increased pressure on administrators to be able to monitor and troubleshoot quickly and effectively. Systems Center Operations Manager makes this possible, giving administrators a simple way to manage the performance of their infrastructure and allowing them to focus on steps to optimize and improve it.
Beginning with an introduction to the architecture of SCOM, you will then learn how to integrate and align it with the needs of your business. The book then covers how to configure System Center R2 Operations Manager, deploy monitoring agents, and use the admin console. You will learn about best practices for overrides and tuning, tips for effective maintenance, and learn to monitor applications across a wide-range of platforms within the environment, creating advanced customizations. You will finish by integrating Operations Manager with other R2 components and discovering the powerful data you can collect using this vital tool.
What You Will Learn
- Learn how to architect an Operations Manager environment
- Find out how to deploy a highly available environment
- Discover tips on how to customize and configure Operations Manager
- Learn how to tune and maintain your deployment
- Successfully monitor key business applications
- Author custom monitoring to extend your monitoring reach
- Integrate Operations Manager with other System Center 2012 R2 components
- Discover how to create notifications, reports, and dashboards
Table of contents
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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Architecting System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
- 2. Deploying System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
- 3. Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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4. Operating System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
- Introduction
- Implementing tuning and best-practice recommendations
- Understanding self-tuning thresholds and baselining
- Configuring self-tuning thresholds
- Using PowerShell for administration tasks
- Setting up recovery tasks
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5. Maintaining System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
- Introduction
- Running daily, weekly, and monthly recommended tasks
- Maintaining and grooming the SCOM databases
- Recovering Operations Manager
- Updating System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
- Optimizing for scale and performance
- 6. Monitoring Applications and IT Services with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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7. Authoring Custom Monitoring Solutions with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
- Introduction
- Storing customizations in management packs
- Editing a management pack in Notepad
- Creating a new attribute for all computers
- Creating a custom view
- Discovering a new application in MP Author
- Creating a custom view in MP Author
- Deploying a management pack from MP Author
- Creating service monitors in MP Author
- Monitoring and capturing performance in MP Author
- 8. Authoring Management Packs in Visual Studio
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9. Integrating System Center 2012 R2 with Other Components
- Introduction
- Discovering best-practice analysis with System Center Advisor
- Designing alert and remediation actions with System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator (SCORCH)
- Enabling Asset Discovery and Incident Management with System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
- Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Integration with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
- 10. Reporting in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
- A. Resourceful Links
- Index
Product information
- Title: Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2015
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782176244
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