Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed (MOM): With A Preview of Operations Manager 2007 (Paperback)

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Product Description

This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005!

 

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed provides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. MOM is a tool that helps implement operations management, but it is not a piece of software that you can simply install and instantly have working.

 

This book provides reference material that will guide you through the steps to design, deploy, and configure MOM within your environment. You learn how to tune your MOM environment and tackle common challenges, such as managing your Microsoft operating systems, directory services, messaging platforms, and databases. Inside you will find comprehensive information on how to develop your own reports and management packs for your MOM environment as well as practical real-world examples, based on hands-on MOM experience.

 

·         Plan your MOM deployment

·         Architect MOM for performance, redundancy, and security

·         Install or upgrade to MOM 2005

·         Back up important MOM components

·         Implement, troubleshoot, deploy, and manage management packs

·         Work with rules and tune them

·         Manage different aspects of your environment, including the Windows operating system, directory services, Exchange email, and SQL Server

·         Extend MOM using connectors and third-party management packs

·         Develop management packs, reports, and scripts

·         Prepare for the next version of Operations Manager

 

CD–ROM includes

 

·         Microsoft’s MOM 2005 Resource Kit and MOM 2005 Sizer

·         MOM Agent Monitor

·         Management packs and scripts written or customized for this book

·         Live Links—more than 100 (clickable) hypertext links and references to materials and sites related to Operations Manager

 

 

Contents

About the Authors  xxi

Acknowledgments  xxiii

Introduction  1

Part I              Operations Management Overview and Concepts

Chapter 1        Operations Management Basics   7

Chapter 2        What’s New   41

Chapter 3        How Does It Work?   57

Part II             Planning and Installation

Chapter 4        Planning Your MOM Deployment   99

Chapter 5        Planning Complex Configurations   151

Chapter 6        Installing MOM 2005   173

Chapter 7        Upgrading to MOM 2005   211

Part III            Deploying MOM

Chapter 8        Post-Installation Tasks   237

Chapter 9        Installing and Configuring Agents   267

Chapter 10      Complex and High Performance Configurations   297

Chapter 11      Securing MOM   329

Part IV            Administering MOM

Chapter 12      Backup and Recovery   365

Chapter 13      Administering Management Packs   395

Chapter 14      Monitoring with MOM   423

Part V             Managing with MOM

Chapter 15      Managing the Operating System   487

Chapter 16      Managing Directory Services   527

Chapter 17      Managing Microsoft Messaging   565

Chapter 18      Database Management   595

Part VI            Moving Beyond MOM 2005

Chapter 19      Interoperability   625

Chapter 20      Developing Management Packs   661

Chapter 21      Using and Developing Reports   719

Chapter 22      Using and Developing Scripts   777

Chapter 23      Touring Operations Manager 2007   825

Part VII          Appendixes

Appendix A    MOM Internals   865

Appendix B    Registry Settings   887

Appendix C    Performance Counters   895

Appendix D    Database Views   901

Appendix E     Reference URLs   907

Appendix F     On the CD   917

Index   919

 

About the Author

Kerrie Meyler is an independent consultant. During her four years in Field Technical Sales for Microsoft she presented at internal Microsoft conferences and worked with Microsoft Learning to develop the MOM certification course.

 

Cameron Fuller is a Principal Consultant for Geniant, an IT consulting company and Microsoft Gold Partner. He serves as the MOM champion for Geniant. 

 

Chris Amaris and Alec Minty are consultants with Convergent Computing, an IT consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay area. John Joyner is a consultant for ClearPointe Technology.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 984 pages
• Publisher: Sams (December 9, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067232928X
• ISBN-13: 978-0672329289
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should be required reading for anyone managing with MOM 2005, January 1, 2007

By	Kevin Saye (Garland, Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the book that bridges the gaps between product documentation, how the product works and how to use the product in a real world deployment.

As an avid MOM administrator, this is one of the rare books that is like having an experienced consultant with you to answer questions. MOM can be a complicated tool. Often people will be frustrated with attempting to deploy and manage using MOM. I highly recommend reading this book prior to deployment. The $60.00 price tag is nothing when compared to the hours you will spend tuning and attempting to understand MOM without it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars offers top level and fine grained control, December 21, 2006

By	W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The complexity of Microsoft Operations Manager is attested to by the sheer bulk of this book. Some readers must surely wonder why any text on any computer program can be so hefty? But to a large extent, MOM's complexity is a consequence of the complexity of systems administration of the Microsoft operating systems and the ancillary packages deployed on top of these, like SQL Server and Exchange. At tremendous effort, Microsoft has built up an entire ecosystem of packages and operating systems. And there are many books devoted to each component.

But MOM's remit is to offer an integrated top level, and yet fine-grained approach, to managing the entire offering. Typically, the reader of this book will be a sysadmin of one, and in fact usually several, corporate computers. If you just have a personal computer running a Microsoft operating system, you are unlikely to need MOM.

Readers from a unix background might recognise an analogy between MOM and IBM's SMIT. The latter was a GUI tool that ran on AIX (IBM's version of unix), and greatly eased the managing of the often intricate AIX commands. But SMIT only really dealt with running the operating system. MOM also offers control of those above-mentioned sundry packages atop the operating system. So MOM is far more complicated.

A quick measure of MOM's complexity is given in Chapter 14. Where MOM's intelligence is embedded in its rule sets. With the default rule set having over 5000 rules, that pertain to what is recommended (or not) for the platforms and applications. Strewth! Happy reading. :)

5.0 out of 5 stars In depth, September 15, 2007

By	jalmquist - See all my reviews

Great book. Really goes into detail. If you've read Essential Microsoft Operations Manager, you'll certainly be pleased with how this book expands on these concepts.