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System Center Operations Manager 2007
View All CoursesIn this course, you will learn the ins and outs of the System Center Operations Manager. You’ll learn client monitoring, operations manager security, monitoring VMware servers, and monitoring non-Windows devices. If you have basic knowledge of Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008, and you are working with or plan to work with a large or enterprise sized network, you’ll benefit from this in-depth course.
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- Introduction
- Course Goals
- High-Level Overview of SCOM 2007 R2's Purpose
- What's New in SCOM 2007
- What's New in SCOM 2007 R2
- Scenario
- The Video Lab
- Prerequisite Knowledge and Abilities
- Hardware Needs if You Want to Follow Along
- Full Course Overview
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- Introduction
- Why Use System Center Operations Manager?
- System Center Operations Manager Components
- System Center Operations Manager Features
- Management Groups
- SCOM/Active Directory Integration
- The Role of Management Packs
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Software Prerequisites
- Software Prerequisites Matrix
- Recommended Hardware Specifications
- Operations Manager Recommended Limits
- Pre-Installation Steps
- Lipton Legal SCOM Installation Assumptions
- Lipton Legal SCOM Installation Process
- Installing Operations Manager 2007 R2 Components on the Operations Database and Reporting Server
- Installing Operations Manager 2007 R2 on Root Management Server
- Double Checking the Installation
- What We Covered
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Lesson Clips
- Introduction
- Scenario
- The Operations Manager Console
- The Web Console
- Console - Scoping
- Console - Using Find and Search
- Creating Additional Console Views
- Using The Health Explorer
- DNS and Domain Controller View
- Management Group Diagram View
- Performance Data View
- Creating State Views
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Post-Installation Recommendations
- Management Group Diagram
- Discovery Agent Installation
- Using the Computer and Device Management Wizard to Deploy Agents
- Installing the SCOM Agent Manually
- Understanding Agents
- Managing Agent Heartbeat Intervals
- Managing Agent Missed Heartbeats
- Agentless Monitoring
- Enabling Agentless Monitoring
- What We Covered
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Lesson Clips
- Introduction
- Scenario
- System Monitoring for Yesteryear
- What are Management Packs?
- Sealed vs. Unsealed MPs
- Customizing Sealed Management Packs
- The Default Management Pack
- Management Pack Components
- Management Packs Installed During Installation
- Locating New Management Packs
- Installing Management Packs
- Importing Management Packs – Best Practices
- Importing Management Packs
- Importing DNS Server Management Pack using SCOM 2007 Catalog
- Creating Overrides
- Creating Management Packs for Overrides
- Documenting Company Knowledge
- Removing Management Packs
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Managing Monitors
- Creating a Self-Tuning Threshold Monitor
- Monitoring iSCSI Client Service
- Managing Groups
- Managing Rules
- Managing Tasks
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Alert Description and Disposition
- The Relationship Between Alerts and Notifications
- The Notification Framework
- Configuring Notifications
- Enabling E-Mail Notifications
- Creating Notification Subscriptions
- Maintenance Mode
- Monitoring Distributed Applications
- Replacing the Router Device with a Working Monitored Device
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- SNMP in a Nutshell
- SNMP Terminology
- Up/Down Monitoring for Network Devices
- Adding Network Devices for Up/Down Monitoring
- Personalizing Network Device State View
- Creating Rule that Captures Uptime for a Network Device
- Cross Platform (Xplat) Monitoring Notes
- Monitoring SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 – Pre-Deployment Tasks
- Discovering and Deploying SCOM Agent to SLES
- What We Covered
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Lesson Clips
- Introduction
- Scenario
- Agentless Exception Monitoring
- Configuring Client Monitoring
- Importing the Administrative Template
- Configuring Policies
- Looking at Gathered Information
- Agent-Based Client Monitoring
- Collective Health Monitoring
- Business-Critical Client Monitoring
- Client Operating System Management Packs
- Information Worker Management Packs
- Deploying Client Operating System and Business Critical Monitoring Management Packs
- Enabling Business Critical Monitoring on a Client
- Installation of Worker Management Pack
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- About the Warehouse and Reporting Options
- Accounts Used By the Data Warehouse Component
- Installing the Data Warehouse and Reporting Components
- Using Reports
- Setting Up a Report Schedule
- What We Covered
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Lesson Clips
- Introduction
- Scenario
- Users Roles in Operations Manager
- Adding Users to an Existing Role
- Creating New User Roles
- Run As Accounts and Profiles
- R2: Run As Account Distribution and Targeting
- Security "shortcuts" in the Course
- Operations Manager Communications Diagram
- Other Communications Ports
- Web Console Recommendations
- Full Security Guide from Microsoft
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- Veeam nworks MP for VMware for SCOM 2007
- Product Components
- System Requirements
- Other Requirements
- Installation Process
- Installing the Management Center Server and UI
- Installing the Virtual Infrastructure Collector
- Importing nworks Management Pack
- Adding Servers to be Monitored
- Monitoring Results
- Full Installation Documentation
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Scenario
- What is the Service Level Dashboard?
- How the Dashboard Works
- Service Level Dashboard Requirements
- Installation Process
- Importing the Service Level Dashboard Management Pack
- Building a SharePoint Server
- Installing the Service Level Dashboard Component to Your SharePoint Server
- Running the SQL Query
- Using the Dashboard
- Creating a Service Level Tracking Object
- Adding Service Level Tracking Object to the Dashboard
- The Good and the Ugly
- What We Covered
Instructor
Scott D. Lowe
Scott is the Founder and Managing Consultant of THE 1610 Group. By night (and sometimes weekends, lunch, and everything in between!) Scott writes technical articles for CNet's TechRepublic, TechTarget, and TechGenix.
For TechRepublic, for whom he has written hundreds of articles, Scott writes weekly in the Servers and Storage area, monthly in the IT Leadership area and in other areas on an ad hoc basis. Scott also writes for TechTarget's SearchCIO-Midmarket site and is the lead author for TechGenix's virtualizationadmin.com site. Scott is the author of O'Reilly's Home Networking: The Missing Manual and a coauthor of Microsoft Press' Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion and the MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-653): Configuring Windows Small Business Server 2008 book.
