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Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

By : Kevin Greene
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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

Managing management packs


When you are working with management packs in OpsMgr, it's important to have the right tools and tricks to help simplify managing them. A few years back, I wrote a blog post (http://tinyurl.com/kgessentialtools) about some essential community management packs, tools and scripts to enhance your OpsMgr deployments and in this section we'll discuss some of these in more detail.

Boris's OpsMgr tools

Boris Yanushpolsky (Principal Program Manager, Microsoft) originally developed a set of tools to make the lives of OpsMgr 2007 administrators easier and a few years later, Daniele Muscetta (Senior Program Manager, Microsoft) gave those tools an update to ensure they could work with newer versions of OpsMgr.

You can download each of the tools explained in the following sections from http://tinyurl.com/opsmgrtools.

MP Viewer

A really useful tool, MP Viewer enables you to look inside sealed and unsealed management packs as well as management pack bundles. Having an easy and quick...