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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

Scoping the Report Operators role


You can control which users have access to your OpsMgr reports by scoping a custom Report Operators role in the Administration workspace. This role gives users the ability to view reports based on their configured security scope. The catch here though is that after you add users or groups to the custom Report Operators role, you then need to modify security role assignments in SSRS.

Here's what you need to do to create a new custom User Role:

  1. In the Administration workspace, right-click on User Roles, then click on New User Role and choose Report Operator from the menu.

  2. Type a name and description to identify the new user role and as shown in Figure 10.32, click on the Add button and specify the user account (or security group) that you wish to scope this role to, then click on Next to continue.

    Figure 10.32: Creating a new scoped Report Operators role

  3. At Summary dialog box click on Create to close the wizard and create the new role.

  4. Now double-click on the newly...