What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to System Center Operations Manager, aims to provide an overview of the System Center suite of datacenter management components, including an introduction to OpsMgr and its core features.
Chapter 2, Installing System Center Operations Manager, covers the design and deployment of your first OpsMgr management group.
Chapter 3, Exploring the Consoles, walks you through the various views and settings that can be found across the different workspaces in both the Operations console and the Web console.
Chapter 4, Deploying Agents, focuses on deploying and managing Windows agents in single or multiple management groups. This chapter also demonstrates how to deploy cross-platform agents to your UNIX/Linux computers.
Chapter 5, Working with Management Packs, includes an overview of what a management pack is, some tips on where to download them from as well as walk-through's to show you how to import, export, and manage them.
Chapter 6, Managing Network Devices, provides information about the out-of-box network monitoring capability of OpsMgr, which can use SNMP or ICMP communications to monitor your network devices.
Chapter 7, Configuring Service Models with Distributed Applications, takes an often under-utilized feature of OpsMgr and provides step-by-step information to help you create models of your IT services for maximum monitoring visibility.
Chapter 8, Alert Tuning the Easy Way, presents process-driven methods and real-world tips to ensure excessive alert noise is kept to a minimum and your alert views stay manageable.
Chapter 9, Visualizing Your IT with Dashboards, shows how to configure and populate built-in dashboard templates with the various widgets on offer as well as introducing you to some hidden dashboard treasures that will maximize the visibility of the IT services monitored within your organization.
Chapter 10, Creating Alert Subscriptions and Reports, covers the creation of alert notification channels, subscribers, and custom subscriptions. In this chapter, we also dive into the powerful reporting feature of OpsMgr to help you create and customize the type of reports that your senior-level IT managers and teams request on a regular basis.
Chapter 11, Backing Up, Maintenance and Troubleshooting, focuses on backing up and optimizing your OpsMgr environment. You will also discover how to work with Maintenance Mode, deploy update rollups, and troubleshoot common OpsMgr issues.
