Cloud & Datacenter Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager

Master the art of deploying and configuring System Center Operations Manager to optimize your cloud and datacenter monitoring, perfect for IT administrators seeking to advance their skills with System Center 2012 R2.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Deploy and configure System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.

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Understand and implement Management Pack components and monitoring setups.

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Integrate Operations Manager with System Center components and business processes.

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Troubleshoot and recover System Center Operations Manager environments.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 5 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Cloud administrators new to Operations Manager
  • Datacenter administrators upgrading skills
  • IT professionals responsible for system monitoring
  • System Center Operations Manager users

Description

This course equips students with the skills they require to deploy and configure System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager. Using hands-on labs, students learn the following: • How to architect and implement a System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Management Group. • How to upgrade and migrate from an existing Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Group to System Center 2012 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager and System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager. • Understand the key elements of Management Packs including Object Discoveries, Rules, Monitors, Targeting and Run As Accounts and Run As Profiles. This includes authoring Management Packs. • How to configure fabric and application monitoring in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager including both datacenter and cloud resources such as networking, storage and compute. • How to configure monitoring of .NET and Java based applications using Application Performance Monitoring. • How to configure end-to-end service monitoring including synthetic transactions and Distributed Application Diagrams. • How to configure Dashboards, Service Level Tracking Reporting and the SharePoint Web Part to enable visualization of key performance and availability metrics. • How to customize the Operations Manager Console to meet the needs of different application support teams. • How to integrate Operations Manager with other System Center 2012 R2 components and extend monitoring to include key business processes and procedures. • How to troubleshoot an Operations Manager Management Group and perform disaster recovery procedures such as database and management server recovery. • How to use new features in System Center 2012 R2 including: Integration with System Center Advisor, Integration with Team Foundation Server, IntelliTrace, and Managing Windows Azure.

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Course Outline

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Module 1: Overview and Architecture

  1. Overview of Operations Manager

  2. Overview of Key Features in Operations Manager

  3. Overview of Core Components and Topology

  4. Addressing Cloud and Datacenter Issues by Using Operations Manager

  5. Planning and Sizing System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

Module 2: Deploying a new System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Management Group

  1. Overview of Security Considerations

  2. Designing the Management Group

  3. Installing System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

  4. Configuring Operations Manager Default Settings

  5. Deploying the Operations Manager Agent

  6. Configuring Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM)

  7. Configuring Audit Collection Services

Module 3: Upgrading Operations Manager

  1. Overview of Migration and Upgrade Planning

  2. Upgrading to System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

  3. Migrating to System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

Module 4: Configuring Fabric and Application Monitoring

  1. Introduction to Management Packs

  2. Configuring Network Device Monitoring

  3. Configuring Fabric Monitoring

  4. Configuring Application Monitoring

Module 5: Application Performance Monitoring

  1. Application Performance Monitoring

  2. Using IntelliTrace

  3. Team Foundation Server Integration

Module 6: End to End Service Monitoring

  1. Management Pack Templates

  2. Distributed Application Models

  3. Global Service Monitor

  4. Real-time Visio Dashboards

Module 7: Scorecards, Dashboards and Reporting

  1. Configuring and Managing Reporting in Operations Manager

  2. Configuring Service Level Tracking

  3. Configuring the Operations Manager SharePoint WebPart

  4. Configuring Dashboards and Widgets

  5. Creating Custom Dashboards

Module 8: Configuring and Customizing the Console

  1. Security, Scoping and User Roles

  2. Creating Custom Views and Alert Resolution States

  3. Configuring Notification Subscriptions

  4. Creating Diagnostic and Recovery Tasks

Module 9: Management Pack Authoring

  1. Management Packs Authoring Concepts

  2. Authoring Management Packs by using the Operations Console

  3. Authoring Management Packs by using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions

Module 10: Integrating Operations Manager with Other System Center Components

  1. Service Manager Integration

  2. Data Protection Manager Integration

  3. Orchestrator Integration

Module 11: Troubleshooting, Tuning and Disaster Recovery

  1. Troubleshooting Operations Manager Core Components

  2. Tuning Management Packs

  3. Configuring SQL AlwaysOn for Operations Manager

  4. Configuring Data Retention in Operations Manager

  5. Disaster Recovery in Operations Manager

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