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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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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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

Understanding network discovery


The first step that you need to take to monitor and manage your network devices is to create a discovery for them. You will need to decide if you will use SNMP, ICMP, or both for discovery and then create a discovery rule to go out and find the network devices that you wish to monitor. The following sections will help you understand the process of network monitoring discovery in OpsMgr.

Discovery rules

A network discovery rule is created using the Computer and Device Management wizard from the Administration workspace of the OpsMgr console, and only one discovery rule can be assigned to each management server or gateway server. For this very reason, you will need to think about resource pool design and the placement of your management and gateway servers to ensure that they communicate with the network devices that they will be assigned to monitor.

Discovery rules can be configured to run automatically on a schedule or manually on-demand when you need to. The...

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