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Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook

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Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook

Overview of this book

Microsoft System Center Service Manager (SCSM) offers enterprises a complete, integrated platform for automating and adapting IT Service Management best practices to your organization's requirements. "Microsoft System Center Service Manager Cookbook" provides you with real-world, immediately usable recipes which will show you how to configure and administer System Center Service Manager 2012 and understand how to solve particular problems and scenarios to take this tool further. In Microsoft System Center Service Manager Cookbook, you will get to grips with practical recipes which will show you how to configure and administer System Center Service Manager 2012. This cookbook features distinct recipes on the practical implementation of ITSM Frameworks and Processes, Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Administration, how to configure Service Level Agreements (SLAs). It will also cover incident and problem management, the design of change and release management as well as implementing and editing security roles.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating a business service


This recipe shows how to create a business service within Service Manager. A business service is a collection of information relating to an IT service such as an e-mail system, a payroll system, or other line of business service. The information about the service consists of information such as the components that make up the service (servers, databases, websites) and properties such as availability of the service, affected users, and owner information for example.

Getting ready

You can either manually create a business service in which case review the manually creating CIs recipe or you can have them synchronized with information relating to distributed applications from within Operations Manager, in which case review and set up the Operations Manager CI Connector as shown in the recipe within this chapter.

This recipe will show how to create a business service based on a distributed application. Before attempting this recipe you will need a distributed application...