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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

Managing overrides


An important skill of tuning alerts in OpsMgr is to know where to go and what tools to use when you need to have a more granular experience of managing your overrides.

In the Managing management packs section of Chapter 5, Working with Management Packs you learnt about the excellent community tools from Microsoft's Boris Yanushpolsky and one of those tools that comes in handy when managing your overrides is the Override Explorer. Using this tool, you can connect to an OpsMgr management group and view all the overrides in your environment along with having the options to change the override target, delete the override or simply move it to another management pack. With Override Explorer, you also have the option to export your overrides to an Excel or XML file for later reference.

Working with the Overrides view

Back in the OpsMgr console, you can manage all the active overrides in your environment from the Authoring workspace as demonstrated in the following steps:

  1. In the Authoring...