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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook

By : Jonathan Horner, Chiyo Odika
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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook

4.5 (4)
By: Jonathan Horner, Chiyo Odika
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Overview of this book

If you are tasked with monitoring the IT infrastructure within your organization, this book demonstrates how System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager offers a radical and exciting solution to modern administration.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Sections
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Conventions
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1. Architecting System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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1. Architecting System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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Introduction
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Introducing Operations Manager roles
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Understanding the business and its requirements
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Designing for high availability
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Sizing the environment
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2. Deploying System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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2. Deploying System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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Introduction
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Implementing SQL high availability
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Scripting the deployment
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Deploying gateway servers
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3. Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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3. Configuring System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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Introduction
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Configuring resource pools
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Configuring active directory agent assignment
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Deploying agents for Windows operating systems
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Deploying agents for Unix- or Linux-based operating systems
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Options for deploying the Admin console
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4. Operating System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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4. Operating System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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Introduction
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Implementing tuning and best-practice recommendations
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Understanding self-tuning thresholds and baselining
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Configuring self-tuning thresholds
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Using PowerShell for administration tasks
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Setting up recovery tasks
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5. Maintaining System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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5. Maintaining System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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Introduction
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Running daily, weekly, and monthly recommended tasks
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Maintaining and grooming the SCOM databases
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Recovering Operations Manager
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Updating System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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Optimizing for scale and performance
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6. Monitoring Applications and IT Services with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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6. Monitoring Applications and IT Services with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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Introduction
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Creating a distributed application from a template
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Creating a custom distributed application
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Monitoring a .NET application
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Enabling Global Service Monitor
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7. Authoring Custom Monitoring Solutions with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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7. Authoring Custom Monitoring Solutions with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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Introduction
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Storing customizations in management packs
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Editing a management pack in Notepad
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Creating a new attribute for all computers
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Creating a custom view
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Discovering a new application in MP Author
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Creating a custom view in MP Author
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Deploying a management pack from MP Author
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Creating service monitors in MP Author
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Monitoring and capturing performance in MP Author
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8. Authoring Management Packs in Visual Studio
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8. Authoring Management Packs in Visual Studio
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Introduction
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Discovering a new application in Visual Studio
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Creating a custom view in Visual Studio
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Deploying a management pack from Visual Studio
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Creating and extending service monitors in Visual Studio
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Monitoring and capturing performance in Visual Studio
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9. Integrating System Center 2012 R2 with Other Components
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9. Integrating System Center 2012 R2 with Other Components
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Introduction
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Discovering best-practice analysis with System Center Advisor
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Designing alert and remediation actions with System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator (SCORCH)
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Enabling Asset Discovery and Incident Management with System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager
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Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Integration with System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager (VMM)
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10. Reporting in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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10. Reporting in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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Introduction
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Building SQL queries
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Creating SQL reports
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Publishing SQL reports
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Creating reports within the Operations console
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Scheduling reports
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Creating notifications and subscriptions
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Creating a SharePoint dashboard
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A. Resourceful Links
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A. Resourceful Links
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Notable community blogs
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Third-party SCOM extensions
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Creating a distributed application from a template

As you will have seen and understood from previous recipes, SCOM tracks the health and alerts of each agent on the agent itself. This allows for excellent scaling characteristics and enables one to really focus on each individual server and its health. However, in the modern IT landscape, the focus is on providing a service to the customer, and the health of a single server does not always adequately reflect the health of the overall service.

In order to achieve this, SCOM allows you to create a distributed application. A distributed application allows you to select and group components together to form a representation of the application, as illustrated by the following example from the Active Directory management pack.

Getting ready

One of the key first steps in getting ready to create a distributed application is to understand the application itself. You need to understand what it is that makes the application work and what components should...

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