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Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center, this book focuses on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. For the seasoned professional, it covers the role of the Operations Manager product, the best practices for working with management packs, how to use the reporting feature to simplify managing the product, how to thoroughly troubleshoot, and how to use and install Operations Manager in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud environment.

Table of Contents:
Introduction     vii Chapter 1     The role of Operations Manager     1 Examining a typical Operations Manager installation     1 Understanding Operations Manager architecture and workflow     2 Extending Operations Manager with cloud services     3 Best practices for operating system configuration     4 Power management     4 Disk performance     5 Disk optimization for IaaS virtual machines     5 Management server placement     6 Antivirus software exclusions     7 Best practices for SQL Server configuration     7 Auto grow and auto shrink     7 Instant file initialization     8 Maximum degree of parallelism     8 Maximum memory     9 Splitting up TempDB files     9 Recovery model     10 Service Principal Names     10 Re-indexing     11 Block size     12 Collation     12 Operations Manager registry optimizations     13 Data Access Layer     14 Persistence Manager     14 Health Manager     15 Pool Manager     15 Group Calculation module     16 SNMP module     16 Management Configuration Service     17 Data Warehouse module     17 Operations Manager environment sizing     18 General recommendations     18 Resource pool considerations     19 ITIL and MOF     20 ITIL     20 MOF     20 The role of Operations Manager     21 Step 1: Changing     21 Step 2: Operating     22 Step 3: Supporting     23 Step 4: Optimizing     24 Chapter 2     Best practices for working with management packs     25 Understanding management packs     25 Singleton vs. non-singleton classes     26 Workflow targets     26 Authoring classes     27 State change events     28 Module cookdown     29 Type space     29 Authoring groups     30 Group calculation interval     30 Sealed management packs     31 Summary of best practices     31 Tools for analyzing management packs     32 Management Pack Viewer     32 Override Explorer     39 Workflow Analyzer explained     40 Workflow Analyzer internals     41 Using Workflow Analyzer     41 Running workflow tracing manually     41 Best practices for creating and using groups     43 Chapter 3     Getting the most out of Operations Manager visualizations     45 Tuning using the out-of-the-box reports     45 Alert reports     47 Event reports     49 Data Volume reports     51 Publishing visualizations     55 Publishing and scheduling reports     56 Publishing to SharePoint     57 Using Visio with Operations Manager     60 Chapter 4     Troubleshooting your Operations Manager environment     63 Understanding the HealthService process     63 MOMConnector     64 HealthServiceExecutive     64 PersistenceManager     65 ConnectorManager     65 ConfigurationManager     65 ExecutionManager     66 HealthManager     67 SecureStorageManager     67 DiscoveryManager     67 DataPublisherManager     67 JobManager     67 PoolManager     67 Understanding the Operational Database     70 ManagedType table     71 ManagedTypeProperty table     72 RelationshipType table     73 Workflow and basic data tables     73 Instance space and discovery tables     74 Overview of the Data Warehouse Database     76 Instance space     76 Datasets and their tables     76 General troubleshooting steps     80 Operations Manager event log     81 ETW tracing for Operations Manager     82 SQL Server Profiler Tracing     85 Performance troubleshooting     85 Data grooming settings     86 Event and performance data collection     86 State change event frequency (noisy monitors)     87 Top issues and best practices     89 Recommended operating system fixes for Operations Manager     89 Gray management servers or agents     89 Data missing from reports     89 Resource pool unavailable     89 Chapter 5     Using Operations Manager in cloud environments     91 Using Global Service Monitor     91 Understanding DevOps     91 Understanding global service monitoring     92 Installing Global Service Monitor     92 Getting started with Global Service Monitor     93 Troubleshooting Global Service Monitor     94 Using Azure Operational Insights (System Center Advisor)     95 Understanding Azure Operational Insights     95 Connecting to Azure Operational Insights     97 Planned additional capabilities of Azure Operational Insights     100 Comparing Azure Operational Insights with Operations Manager     100 Installing Operations Manager in Azure IaaS     102 Supported scenarios     102 Configuring the network     103 Configuring storage     104 The first virtual machine     107 Configuring the first virtual machine as a domain controller     111 Configuring the next virtual machine as the SQL Server server     112 Configuring the final virtual machine as the Operations Manager management server     113 Monitoring Azure IaaS     114 Connecting your on-premises Operations Manager environment to your Azure subscription     114 Using Operations Manager to monitor Azure virtual machines     116  

About the Author :
Danny Hermans is a Senior Partner Technical Advisor for System Center for Broad Commercial Services EMEA based in Sweden, with almost 20 years of experience in various consulting projects, ranging from green field design over optimization to migration assignments. Since joining Microsoft three years ago, he has been a Senior Premier Field Engineer (PFE), Tech Lead, and Risk Assessment Program (RAP) as a Service Developer for Operations Manager. Throughout his career, Danny has developed a love of fine-tuning Microsoft products and seeks to enhance performance wherever possible to add value to his customer outcomes. Danny’s blog can be found at http://blogs.technet.com/b/dhermans. Uwe Sturtz has worked for Microsoft since 2007 as a Premier Field Engineer (PFE) for System Center Technology in Global Business Support Germany. Mainly focused on System Center Operations Manager and other monitoring solutions, he has a background of more than 18 years in system management. He leads the Microsoft German PFE-SCOM community and is a member of the EMEA SCOM Tech Lead team. Uwe is responsible for leading the SCOM PFE RAP as a Service process and teaches the Operations Manager engineers in EMEA to deliver this proactive service to Microsoft premier customers with the right technology and quality skills. Mihai Sarbulescu is a Support Escalation Engineer on the Cloud & Datacenter Management team for the EMEA region. He is based in Romania and has been working for Microsoft for the past five years. Before working at Microsoft, he was a web developer. Mihai enjoys debugging, programming, computer games, and martial arts. His blog can be found at http://blogs.technet.com/b/mihai/. Mitch Tulloch is a well-known expert on Windows Server administration and cloud computing technologies. He has published hundreds of articles on a wide variety of technology sites and has written, contributed to or been series editor for over 50 books. Mitch is one of the most popular authors at Microsoft Press–the almost two dozen ebooks on Windows Server and System Center he either wrote or was Series Editor on have been downloaded more than 2.5 million times! For a complete list of free ebooks from Microsoft Press, visit the Microsoft Virtual Academy at http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/ebooks. Mitch has repeatedly received Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his outstanding contributions to supporting the global IT community. He is a ten-time MVP in the technology area of Windows Server Software Packaging, Deployment & Servicing. You can find his MVP Profile page at http://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/mvp/Mitch%20Tulloch-21182. Mitch is also Senior Editor of WServerNews, a weekly newsletter focused on system admin and security issues for the Windows Server platform. With almost 100,000 IT pro subscribers worldwide, WServerNews is the most popular Windows Server--focused newsletter in the world. Visit http://www.wservernews.com and subscribe to WServerNews today! Mitch also runs an IT content development business based in Winnipeg, Canada, that produces white papers and other collateral for the business decision maker (BDM) and technical decision maker (TDM) audiences. His published content ranges from white papers about Microsoft cloud technologies to reviews of third-party products designed for the Windows Server platform. Before starting his own business in 1998, Mitch worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for Productivity Point. For more information about Mitch, visit his website at http://www.mtit.com. You can also follow Mitch on Twitter @mitchtulloch.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780735695870
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Microsoft Press,U.S.
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 1 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0735695873
  • Publisher Date: 10 Apr 2015
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 112


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