Preface

System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) is Microsoft's flagship solution for monitoring private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. Its a best-of-breed monitoring tool for Microsoft operating system and application workloads; it also has the ability to monitor datacenter hardware components, such as servers, network devices, SAN's, UPS's, and even air-conditioning units, along with a wide range of cross-platform UNIX and Linux operating systems.

Without a proper understanding of how all these monitoring capabilities can come together centrally within OpsMgr, you will find administering it becomes a complex challenge. The aim of this book is to address that challenge and break down the barriers of complexity to help you get up and running with your monitoring scenarios within a relatively short space of time.