One of the key benefits of OpsMgr is having the ability to bring all of the monitored components of an IT service together and model them into a single entity using the Distributed Application feature. With this capability you can easily transition from a server monitoring solution to a service monitoring solution, where you then get the full picture of what's affected within the context of the IT service when a particular alert fires.
In this chapter, we begin with an overview of distributed applications and then we discuss some of the predefined distributed application models that you get when you first deploy OpsMgr. We then switch gears and move into creating your first distributed application and along the way, we'll walk you through each of the built-in template designs that you can use to model your IT service.
We will finish the chapter by demonstrating how to create an associated Service Level Agreement (SLA) for...