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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 Subscriptions


The more notification subscriptions you configure, the more management overhead challenges you'll have. Management tasks can range from simply needing to enable or disable all subscriptions for maintenance and patching cycles, to having the ability to create multiple copies of existing subscriptions so as to support tiered recipient support groups. In the next few sections we'll describe some of the options available to you for overcoming these challenges.

Enabling and disabling Subscriptions

From time-to-time you will have a requirement to enable or disable your subscriptions and you can do this from the Administration workspace in the console. To disable a subscription all you need to do is to right-click on it and select the Disable option as shown in Figure 10.25.

Figure 10.25: Disabling a subscription from the console

Right-click and select the Enable option if you wish to enable the subscription again. The problem with using the console for these tasks is the fact...