Mastering™ System Center Operations Manager 2007

Chapter 11

Optimizing Your Environment

Nothing runs well if it isn't tuned. This fact holds true for anything you can think of, from cars to air conditioners. Operations Manager requires tuning as well, but we'll use the fancier term optimizing in this chapter. The goal of optimization is to ensure Operations Manager runs reliably, without any security problems, and at the highest performance possible. Those three goals might seem unattainable, but you can achieve all three to an extent. In some respects, optimization is also a balancing act—you must consider the needs of everyone working with Operations Manager when optimizing the system to ensure it meets all of the requirements but still interacts properly with the administrators who use ...