Installing and Configuring System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

Identify the requirements for installing System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Install System Center Operations Manager 2007 and verify a successful installation.

This module explains how to use the Operations Console and how to perform configuration tasks.

Reviewing the Workspaces

Using the Web Console

Working with Views

Reviewing Security Roles

Creating Operator Accounts and Views

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Install the Operations Console on another system.

Understand the workspaces and views.

Work with the Actions available for a given object.

This module explains how to configure the global management group settings and the individual agent settings within Operations Manager 2007.

Global Settings

Overriding Global Settings

Creating Notifications

Setting Management Group Notification Options

Creating Notification Recipients

Creating Notification Subscriptions

Testing Notification Subscriptions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure default management group settings.

Override the default management group setting.

Configure notification settings and define who will receive the notifications.

This module explains how to deploy the Operations Manager agent within the management group.

Configuring Active Directory

Push Installation

Manual Installation

Managing Agents

Manually Installing the Agent

Approving the Manually Installed Agent

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create an Active Directory container for automatic agent assignment.

Configure automatic installation settings.

Manually install and approve an agent.

This module explains how to import, export and manage the objects within a management pack.

Management Pack Overview

Importing and Exporting Management Packs

Creating and Sealing Management Packs

Creating a Self-Tuning Threshold

Creating a Correlated Windows Event Unit Monitor

Creating a Task

Testing a Task

Creating a Run As Profile

Testing a Task

Create and Verify the Override

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Define the components that make up a management pack.

Create a new management pack.

Export and import management packs.

Seal a management pack.

This module explains how to install and configure SQL Reporting Services and then install Operations Manager Reporting and create reports.

Installing and Configuring SQL Reporting Services

Installing Operations Manager Reporting

Creating and Viewing Reports

Creating a Model

Creating a Report

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Install and configure SQL Reporting Services.

Install and configure Operations Manager Reporting.

View reports.

Create reports using Report Builder.

This module explains how to configure Agentless Exception Monitoring to monitor for application faults and then monitor the client systems.

Configuring Exception Monitoring

Managing Clients

Configuring Client Monitoring

Configuring Group Policy

Testing Client Monitoring

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Configure a management server as an Agentless Exception Monitoring collector.

Configure clients to generate error reports and send them to the management server.

This module explains how to install and configure Audit Collection Services, how to enable forwarders and how to manage collectors and forwarders using the Command Shell.

Audit Collection Services Overview

Installing Audit Collection Services

Configuring Forwarders and Collectors

Importing ACS Reports

Enabling Forwarders

Import ACS Reports

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Install and configure Audit Collection Services.

Optimizing auditing.

Create Auditing reports.

This module explains how to create a synthetic transaction to proactively monitor components.

Synthetic Transactions

Building the Synthetic Transaction

Testing the Synthetic Transaction

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create and use Synthetic Transactions.

This module explains how to create and use distributed applications to provide end-to-end service monitoring.

Distributed Applications

Building the Model

Building the Model

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create and use Distributed Applications.

This module introduces the components that allow monitoring of UNIX, Linux and network devices.

Tools for Monitoring Non-Microsoft Platforms

Using the Cross-Platform Extensions

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Identify and use the built-in tolls for managing non-Microsoft platforms.

Configure and use the Cross-Platform Extensions for monitoring UNIX and Linux systems.

Install the Cross-Platform extensions.

This module explains how to configure agents to send monitoring data to multiple management servers in multiple management groups. It also explains how to install and configure a Gateway server for clients in untrusted domains and how to configure multiple management groups to interoperate.

Multi-homing Agents

Untrusted Environments

Multi-Tiered Environments

Connecting Management Groups

Configuring Operator Accounts

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Multi-Home and agent.

Create a Gateway server to monitor an untrusted domain

Create connectors to other management groups and third party management products.

This module explains how to backup and restore a management group and the management servers within the management group.

Planning Backup and Restore

Performing a Backup

Planning Recovery Strategies

Promoting a Management Server

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Identify the components to back up

Plan a backup strategy

Implement a backup strategy

Implement a restore strategy.