System Center 2012 Operations Manager
- History and evolution of System Center
- Differentiate between each of the System Center 2012 products
- System Center 2012 licensing
- Purpose and function of Operations Manager 2012
Planning for Service Monitoring
- ITIL and MOF
- Designing the service monitoring process
- Documenting the service monitoring process
Planning an Operations Manager 2012 Deployment
- Operations Manager 2012 core components
- Designing for High Availability
- Core hardware and software requirements
- Designing network device monitoring requirements
- Designing UNIX/LINUX monitoring requirements
- Designing Windows-based monitoring requirements
Deploying Operations Manager 2012
- Environmental prerequisites
- Installing Operations Manager 2012
- Verifying Operations Manager 2012 installation and additional configuration
- Creating and using run as accounts
- Implementing Active Directory integration
- Designing and implementing role-based administration
Deploying the Operations Manager 2012 Agent
- Operations Manager 2012 Agent
- Deploying the Operations Manager 2012 Agent
- Understanding Agent Failover
Monitoring (Management) Pack Deployment and Administration
- Monitoring (management) packs
- Most commonly used monitoring (management) packs
- Modifying and expanding monitoring (management) packs: overrides
- Monitoring (management) pack administration best practices
Monitoring (Management) Pack Tuning
- Alerts
- Tuning a monitoring (management) pack
- Using Operations Manager baseline monitors and rules
- Documenting changes to monitoring (management) packs
Monitor Administration
- Operations console – monitoring pane
- Alert administration
- Exploring agent-based monitoring
- Customizing the monitoring pane
Advanced Monitoring
- Monitoring network devices
- Monitoring UNIX/LINUX-based computers
- Monitoring .NET-based applications
- Expanding Operations Manager 2012 monitoring
Reporting
- Using Operations Manager 2012 reporting
- Administering reports
- Customizing reports
Notifications and Operations Manager 2012 Maintenance
- Alert notifications
- Designing maintenance and disaster recovery
