System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed (Paperback)

by Kerrie Meyler (Author), Cameron Fuller (Author), John Joyner (Author), Andy Dominey (Author)
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Product Description

This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007!

 

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007. Like its MOM 2005 predecessor, OpsMgr 2007 helps you implement operations management, but with a far different and more holistic approach from MOM 2005’s focus on individual servers.

 

This book guides you through designing, deploying, and configuring OpsMgr 2007. You will find detailed information and hands-on experience on topics such as estimating database sizes and designing redundant OpsMgr configurations. You learn how to tackle challenges such as setting up ACS, establishing client monitoring, using and creating synthetic transactions and distributed applications, and developing management packs and reports.

 

• Size your OpsMgr databases
• Architect for redundancy and performance
• Install or migrate to OpsMgr 2007
• Secure OpsMgr
• Back up OpsMgr components
• Understand how monitors and rules work
• Manage different aspects, including ACS, client monitoring, synthetic transactions, and distributed applications
• Extend OpsMgr
• Develop management packs and reports

 

CD-ROM includes:

• Database sizing spreadsheet
• Utilities, management packs, and reports
• Microsoft’s best practices for rule and monitor targeting and PowerShell Cheat Sheet
• Live Links--more than 200 hypertext links and references to materials, connectors, sites, and newsgroups related to OpsMgr

Contents

 

Introduction  1

Part I         Operations Management Overview and Concepts

1        Operations Management Basics  11

2        What’s New  63

3        Looking Inside OpsMgr  97

Part II        Planning and Installation

4        Planning Your Operations Manager Deployment  137

5        Planning Complex Configurations  203

6        Installing Operations Manager 2007  233

7        Migrating to Operations Manager 2007  277

Part III       Moving Toward Application-Centered Management

8        Configuring and Using Operations Manager 2007  303

9        Installing and Configuring Agents  369

10      Complex Configurations  425

11      Securing Operations Manager 2007  471

Part IV       Administering Operations Manager 2007

12      Backup and Recovery  539

13      Administering Management Packs  593

14      Monitoring with Operations Manager  647

Part V        Service-Oriented Monitoring

15      Monitoring Audit Collection Services  739

16      Client Monitoring  797

17      Monitoring Network Devices  845

18      Using Synthetic Transactions  903

19      Managing a Distributed Environment  949

Part VI       Beyond Operations Manager

20      Automatically Adapting Your Environment  1005

21      Reading for the Service Provider: Remote Operations Manager  1047

22      Interoperability  1095

23      Developing Management Packs and Reports  1141

Part VII      Appendixes

A       OpsMgr by Example: Configuring and Tuning Management Packs  1229

B       Performance Counters  1261

C       Registry Settings  1271

D       Active Directory and Exchange 2003 Management Pack Parameters  1295

E       Reference URLs  1305

F       On the CD  1323

Index  1329

 

About the Author
Kerrie Meyler, MA, BA, MCSE, CNA, is an independent consultant and former trainer with more than fifteen years of experience in IT. While at Microsoft in Field Technical Sales for four years she focused on infrastructure and mangement, presenting at numerous product launches. Presenting on Operations Manager 2007 and giving several podcasts at TechEd 2007, she also presented at internal Microsoft conferences and received company recognition and awards including a SPAR MGS award. An MCT for six years, Kerrie worked with Microsoft Learning to develop functional specifications for the 2550: Implementing Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 Microsoft Official Curriculum course and did the beta teach for that course. She also participated in the alpha walkthrough for the 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment course and the 70-400: Configuring Microsoft System Center Operations Manager certification exam. She is the lead author of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed.

Cameron Fuller, BS, MCSE, MOM MVP, is a Senior Lead consultant for Catapult Systems, an IT consulting company and MIcrosoft Gold Certified Partner in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions. He focuses on management solutions, and serves as the Microsoft Operations Management Champion for Catapult. His fifteen years of infrastructure experience include working with medium to large companies in the retail, education, healthcare, distributing, transportation, and energy industries. Cameron continually focuses on improving his existing business and technical skill sets through hands-on experience and leveraging certifications including an MCSE since NT 3.51, MCSA, A+, Linux+, Server+, and CCSA. Cameron has presented on Operations Manager at events including Microsoft TechEd and the MOM 2005 product launches in Dallas and Tulsa. He is co-author of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed.

John Joyner, LCDR USN-R, BS, MCSE, is a presenter and inventor in the systems management space. A senior architect at ClearPointe, a leader and pioneer for the Managed Services Provider (MSP) industry, he's been using Microsoft systems management technologies to deliver SLA-based guarantees of application performance in multi-tenant environments since 2001. As a Navy computer scientist, he deployed Microsoft Mail to the battlefield for NATO in former Yugoslavia in 1995, then took Exchange 4.0 afloat in 1996 for the first Internet-connected aircraft carrier battle group deployment in history. John retired as a Lieutenant Commander from the Navy in 1998, and has worked for ClearPointe since then. He has provided consulting services on behalf of Microsoft to design some of the world's largest Operations Manager deployments. John is a contributing author of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed.

Contributor

Andy Dominey, MCSE, MOM MVP, has been in the IT industry for eight years. He started out as a field service and support engineer and worked his way up to systems administrator, responsible for MOM, Active Directory, Exchange, web hosting, SAN technology, and clustering for an Exchange hosting provider based in the United Kingdom. He is currently working as a Senior Consultant for 1E, a Windows management firm based in the United Kingdom. Andy has a number of large-scale MOM and OpsMgr deployments to his credit and is an avid evangelist for the product. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for MOM for the past two years. Andy authored Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Field Guide.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 1416 pages
• Publisher: Sams (February 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672329557
• ISBN-13: 978-0672329555
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource, April 1, 2008

By	Grant Fritchey (MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Anyone that uses System Center Operations Manager knows that the documentation is a bit sparse. This book more than makes up for that lack of information. The authors have created a very thorough and complete set of information starting with outlining the reason for SCOM and the underlying architecture. They spend a great deal of time and effort describing how to install and configure the tool. My favorite sections start about half way through when they get into configuring all the rules and monitors to gather data and respond to alerts. The chapter on reporting was also very helpful. They even include a small section on other management packs in the Appendixes, with information on the one that interests me most, SQL Server. The Appendix also has a great walkthrough on step by step configuring and tuning your own management pack.
I can't say this is a must own for anyone using SCOM, but if you've been floundering a bit, as I have, or you're just getting started, this is a fantastic resource to get you on your feet and get your SCOM system up and running.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Pound for Pound Not Much, October 4, 2008

By	E. Clifford Milliken (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The index is not useful. Very difficult if not impossible to find topics of interest.

The chapters contain a lot of material that is meaningless to the technical subject. My guess is that the book size could be cut in half to 1.5 inches thick from 3 inches.

An electronic copy of the book would be handy. I did try to access the "online version" and it seemed like I was being asked to pay for each chapter that I accessed. I gave up.

Cliff Milliken

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Resource for the Beginner, March 10, 2009

By	Raymond Gomulinski (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've been working towards learning SCOM and had come to a standstill until I bought this book. The infrastructure development and installation section was of considerable help towards moving me forward. From there I've been able to pick up the software at an accelerated rate. The one thing I would have liked to have seen is an electronic version of the book. As a mobile IT professional taking the book along puts a good amount of weight in my pack.