System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed

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

 

User review
Information overload
As few people have already mentioned in their reviews, this book's got too much irrelevant information that can be removed cutting it in almost half the size. Most of the time when I was reading/reviewing this book it felt like its all cut & past from TechNet articles/blogs. I've learned more about SCOM of off blogs, and few Microsoft site then this book.

User review
Good book, good ideas and references
This is a good book for those with some MOM experience or no experience with the solution as well.

It is a good book, well written and contains very good references on the basic and advanced capabilities of the solution.

The only downside is (as it can be expected) that it has no information on the latest updates on SCOM, including R2 that has many new capabililities including cross platform monitoring capabilities and others.

Still a good book,,.

User review
Good Resource for the Beginner
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.

User review
It's more than an overview !
I'm very satisfied with this book. It provides a lot information, ITIL process, idea and nicely Tips from real world.
I was the first time a bough an unleased book and it's not the last time. This book explains how SCOM is working and not just how used it, this is useful for troubleshooting!!
If you know a little SCOM and you want to be an administrator of this product, reading it help.
Of course if you understand the most of this book, the certification is easy.
Just one bad thing for me, the English is not my native language and it was sometimes hard to understand correctly some chapters ,,,,


User review
SCOM 2007 Unleashed is a great book
I have worked with MS products for 15 years and the unleashed series are definitely the best. Not too dry and they give you real world information that gives me a reference or a detailed explanation of a procedure.