March 2008
Intermediate to advanced
1416 pages
36h 21m
English
book
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed
by Kerrie Meyler, Cameron Fuller, John Joyner, Andy Dominey
Overview
This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007!
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007. Like its MOM 2005 predecessor, OpsMgr 2007 helps you implement operations management, but with a far different and more holistic approach from MOM 2005’s focus on individual servers.
This book guides you through designing, deploying, and configuring OpsMgr 2007. You will find detailed information and hands-on experience on topics such as estimating database sizes and designing redundant OpsMgr configurations. You learn how to tackle challenges such as setting up ACS, establishing client monitoring, using and creating synthetic transactions and distributed applications, and developing management packs and reports.
Size your OpsMgr databases
Architect for redundancy and performance
Install or migrate to OpsMgr 2007
Secure OpsMgr
Back up OpsMgr components
Understand how monitors and rules work
Manage different aspects, including ACS, client monitoring, synthetic transactions, and distributed applications
Extend OpsMgr
Develop management packs and reports
CD-ROM includes:
Database sizing spreadsheet
Utilities, management packs, and reports
Microsoft’s best practices for rule and monitor targeting and PowerShell Cheat Sheet
Live Links--more than 200 hypertext links and references to materials, connectors, sites, and newsgroups related to OpsMgr
Contents
Introduction 1
Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts
1 Operations Management Basics 11
2 What’s New 63
3 Looking Inside OpsMgr 97
Part II Planning and Installation
4 Planning Your Operations Manager Deployment 137
5 Planning Complex Configurations 203
6 Installing Operations Manager 2007 233
7 Migrating to Operations Manager 2007 277
Part III Moving Toward Application-Centered Management
8 Configuring and Using Operations Manager 2007 303
9 Installing and Configuring Agents 369
10 Complex Configurations 425
11 Securing Operations Manager 2007 471
Part IV Administering Operations Manager 2007
12 Backup and Recovery 539
13 Administering Management Packs 593
14 Monitoring with Operations Manager 647
Part V Service-Oriented Monitoring
15 Monitoring Audit Collection Services 739
16 Client Monitoring 797
17 Monitoring Network Devices 845
18 Using Synthetic Transactions 903
19 Managing a Distributed Environment 949
Part VI Beyond Operations Manager
20 Automatically Adapting Your Environment 1005
21 Reading for the Service Provider: Remote Operations Manager 1047
22 Interoperability 1095
23 Developing Management Packs and Reports 1141
Part VII Appendixes
A OpsMgr by Example: Configuring and Tuning Management Packs 1229
B Performance Counters 1261
C Registry Settings 1271
D Active Directory and Exchange 2003 Management Pack Parameters 1295
E Reference URLs 1305
F On the CD 1323
Index 1329
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