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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

Operations console overview


The central hub of administration in OpsMgr, the Operations console is where you will find yourself frequenting when you need to interact with your monitored environment.

Although most commonly installed onto Management servers, it's a best practice recommendation to run the Operations console completely separate on either a standalone server or a client workstation. The reason for this is that you want to ensure that your Management servers can utilize all their resources for the day-to-day running of OpsMgr.

In large enterprise deployments, a dedicated server running a version of Windows Server Remote Desktop Services is usually deployed to run the Operations console and operators can use an RDP session to logon with their individual user accounts and use it to manage OpsMgr.

A more familiar scenario for Operations console deployments is to install it onto a workstation running a supported Windows client operating system and this is how we will roll it out for...