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Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

By : Kevin Greene
Book Image

Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

By: Kevin Greene

Overview of this book

Most modern IT environments comprise a heterogeneous mixture of servers, network devices, virtual hypervisors, storage solutions, cross-platform operating systems and applications. All this complexity brings a requirement to deliver a centralized monitoring and reporting solution that can help IT administrators quickly identify where the problems are and how best to resolve them. Using System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr), administrators get a full monitoring overview of the IT services they have responsibility for across the organization - along with some useful management capabilities to help them remediate any issues they've been alerted to. This book begins with an introduction to OpsMgr and its core concepts and then walks you through designing and deploying the various roles. After a chapter on exploring the consoles, you will learn how to deploy agents, work with management packs, configure network monitoring and model your IT services using distributed applications. There’s a chapter dedicated to alert tuning and another that demonstrates how to visualize your IT using dashboards. The final chapters in the book discuss how to create alert subscriptions, manage reports, backup and recover OpsMgr, perform maintenance and troubleshoot common problems.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Backing up and recovering OpsMgr


Before you dive straight in backing up OpsMgr, you will need to create a plan that lists the components you wish to backup along with a schedule of when you need to execute those backup jobs.

Depending on the organization, your backup plan may also need to include detailed information on which teams have responsibility for backing up the relevant OpsMgr components along with documentation about the applications used to perform the backups. For example, in large organizations, responsibility for backing up the databases may lie with a dedicated SQL team; while backing up the unsealed management packs and virtual machines might be a job for a dedicated backup team. In smaller environments, the OpsMgr administrator will most likely have responsibility for backing up the entire environment and the backup plan will become less defined.

On customer projects, we typically use information from the following table to help design a backup plan and schedule for the OpsMgr...