This workspace is where most of your OpsMgr administrative tasks will take place. Here you can deploy and manage agents, install or remove management packs, configure network device monitoring, schedule alert notifications, configure role-based access control and define management group global settings.
Tip
You will only be presented with the Administration workspace when the user account you are running the console with is a member of the 'Operations Manager Administrators' user role.
As shown in Figure 3.23, when you click on the root-level Administration link within the workspace, you will be presented with the Administration Overview page, which is not too dissimilar from the Monitoring Overview page that we discussed at the beginning of the chapter.
The Administration Overview page gives you some quick shortcuts to incomplete administration tasks in OpsMgr, such as configuring agents, importing management packs...