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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

Reports


Along with the extensive list of availability and performance reports that come out of the box with OpsMgr, there are five reports specific to network monitoring. These reports are explained in the following sections.

Device reports

If you wish to report on how much free memory or CPU utilization your network device has, then these two reports will do the job:

  • Memory Utilization

  • Processor Utilization

Interface reports

Given that each individual interface on a network device can be responsible for different application and fabric workloads, it's imperative that you have a reporting solution available to you that can analyse things like packets, errors and traffic volume. These self-explanatory named reports are what you need:

  • Interface Error Packet Analysis

  • Interface Packet Analysis

  • Interface Traffic Volume

To show you how easy it is to quickly create one of these interface reports, follow these steps:

  1. Expand the Network Monitoring folder from the Monitoring workspace and click the Network Devices...