Chapter 11. Backing Up, Maintenance and Troubleshooting

If you are going to invest a lot of time into designing, deploying and administering OpsMgr, then understanding how to back it up, perform general maintenance tasks and troubleshoot when you have a problem are important skills to learn.

Backing up the OpsMgr SQL databases will form the backbone of any backup plan you implement but ensuring you have the option to easily backup and restore your unsealed management packs and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) instances is something you will really appreciate in times of trouble.

When carrying out maintenance on your monitored agents, you will need to gain an understanding of how to initiate and manage the Maintenance Mode feature in OpsMgr and for the management servers; you'll also want to ensure the backend SQL databases are groomed and running optimally.

Successfully troubleshooting problems, knowing how to work with SQL queries, console views, reports, events, and...