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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

Navigating the workspaces


Down the bottom-left side of the page you will notice the navigation pane, more commonly known as the Wunderbar. This term came about during the original design for Microsoft's Outlook 2003 email application when a large number of German speakers were working on the design team and it was seen as a snappy name with fun connotations (Wonder).

People in Microsoft liked the Wunderbar design so much at the time that a decision was made to use it for other products, such as Microsoft Exchange and System Center. This meant that users had a more familiar user interface (UI) and navigation experience across a multitude of core products from Microsoft – making the learning curve all the easier to get to grips with.

In OpsMgr, the Wunderbar comprises five buttons that serve as links to help you move around the following five workspaces:

  • Monitoring: This workspace contains a collection of different views that give you the ability to see things like alerting, health status,...