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Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

You're reading from   Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Using SCOM 2016 TP 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289743
Length 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin Greene Kevin Greene
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Preface 1. Introduction to System Center Operations Manager FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing System Center Operations Manager 3. Exploring the Consoles 4. Deploying Agents 5. Working with Management Packs 6. Managing Network Devices 7. Configuring Service Models with Distributed Applications 8. Alert Tuning the Easy Way 9. Visualizing Your IT with Dashboards 10. Creating Alert Subscriptions and Reports 11. Backing Up, Maintenance and Troubleshooting Index

Network monitoring overview

The out-of-the-box network monitoring capability has been around since the original OpsMgr 2012 release and not much has changed since then. You have the ability to perform advanced monitoring of your network devices using SNMP or basic discovery and availability monitoring using ICMP (Ping).

If you use SNMP, you can get detailed monitoring of ports, interfaces, hardware, virtual local area networks (VLAN's), and even Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) groups. With ICMP, all you get is an indication that the IP address of the network device is responding to Ping requests with very little information about the underlying components or interfaces.

Although the network monitoring feature of OpsMgr won't have network administrators throwing out the specialist tools they use from the likes of Cisco, for the IT administrator and IT pro, it's still very useful when used in the overall context of IT service monitoring. This is because, regardless of the...

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