Introduction

This chapter will explore how you can utilize other System Center components to provide enhanced monitoring and remediation solutions. We will look at how you can harness the data collected by System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (SCOM), feeding this information into other products, and expand your monitoring reach through the use of additional management packs.

The recipes in this chapter will cover the following scenarios:

• Discovering best-practice analysis with System Center Advisor

  • Understand what System Center Advisor is and how it can be configured and discuss how it can enhance your monitoring solution

• Designing alert and remediation actions with SCORCH

  • Explore how you can take common alerts from within your System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager environment and autoremediate them using SCORCH

• Enabling Asset Discovery and Ticketing with System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager

  • Look at how gathered data can be shared with System Center 2012 R2 Service Manager through the configuration...