IV. Administering Operations Manager 2007
by Andy Dominey, John Joyner, Cameron Fuller, Kerrie Meyler
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Part I: Operations Management Overview and Concepts
- Part II: Planning and Installation
- Part III: Moving Toward Application-Centered Management
- Part IV: Administering Operations Manager 2007
- Part V: Service-Oriented Monitoring
- Part VI: Beyond Operations Manager
- Appendixes
- Conventions Used in This Book
- About the CD
- Who Should Read This Book
- I. Operations Management Overview and Concepts
- 1. Operations Management Basics
- Ten Reasons to Use Operations Manager
- The Problem with Today’s Systems
- Operations Management Defined
- Microsoft’s Management Approach
- Managing System Health
- Fixing the Monitoring Problem: Operations Manager 2007
- Microsoft System Center
- The Value Proposition of Operations Manager
- Summary
- 2. What’s New
- The History of Operations Manager
- Introducing Operations Manager 2007
- Operations Manager 2005 versus Operations Manager 2007
- Terminology Changes
- Functionality Changes
- Model-based Management
- Service-Oriented Monitoring
- Agentless Exception Monitoring
- Consoles
- Health Explorer
- A New Command Shell
- WS-Management Support
- SNMPv2 Support
- Role-Based Security
- Run As Profiles and Run As Accounts
- New Windows Services
- Active Directory Integration
- Databases
- Registry Key Changes
- Server Components
- High Availability
- Self-Tuning Thresholds
- Agents
- Maintenance Mode
- Notifications
- Monitoring Engine
- Client Monitoring
- Connector Framework
- Connecting Management Groups
- Audit Collection
- How Does the Data Flow?
- What’s New in Reporting
- Not Your MOM’s Management Packs
- Summarizing the Changes: A Table Is Worth a Thousand Words
- Changes in Capacity
- Prerequisites
- Operations Manager versus System Center Essentials
- Summary
- 3. Looking Inside OpsMgr
- 1. Operations Management Basics
- II. Planning and Installation
- 4. Planning Your Operations Manager Deployment
- Assessment
- Design
- Management Groups
- Operations Manager Server Components
- Operations Manager Server Software Requirements
- Additional Design Factors
- System Center Capacity Planner 2007
- Designing a Single-Server Monitoring Configuration with System Center Essentials
- Single-Server Configuration Using Operations Manager 2007
- Designing a Two-Server Monitoring Configuration
- Designing Multiple Management Server Monitoring Configurations
- Designing OpsMgr Sizing and Capacity
- Tying It All Together
- Planning
- Proof of Concept
- Pilot
- Implementation
- Maintenance
- Sample Designs
- Summary
- 5. Planning Complex Configurations
- Planning for Additional Components
- Planning a Multihomed Deployment
- Planning a Connected Management Group Deployment
- Planning for Multiple Domains
- Planning Active Directory Integration
- Planning How to Connect Operations Manager
- Planning for Highly Available Configurations
- OpsMgr and Virtualization
- Summary
- 6. Installing Operations Manager 2007
- 7. Migrating to Operations Manager 2007
- 4. Planning Your Operations Manager Deployment
- III. Moving Toward Application-Centered Management
- 8. Configuring and Using Operations Manager 2007
- Mandatory Minimum Configuration Activities
- Deploying and Using the Operations Console
- Drilldown: OpsMgr 2007 Operations Console
- Summary
- 9. Installing and Configuring Agents
- 10. Complex Configurations
- Management Server Configurations
- Gateway Servers
- Redundant Configurations
- Performance Considerations
- Summary
- 11. Securing Operations Manager 2007
- Role-based Security
- Run As Profiles and Run As Accounts
- Required Accounts
- Action Account
- The Monitoring Host Process
- Multiple Monitoring Host Instances
- The Management Server Action Account
- Using a Low-Privileged Account on the Agent
- The Action Account on Windows 2000 and Windows XP Systems
- The Action Account on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista Systems
- Changing the Credentials for the Action Account
- The SDK and Config Service Account
- Computer Discovery Account
- Agent Installation Account
- Notification Action Account
- Data Warehouse Write Action Account
- Data Reader Account
- The Health Service Account
- Gateway Action Account
- Action Account
- Database Security
- Mutual Authentication
- Agent Proxying
- Obtaining a Certificate
- Configuring the Operations Console to Use SSL to Connect to a Reporting Server
- Using the Health Service Lockdown Tool
- ACS Security
- Firewall Considerations and Communications Security
- Summary
- 8. Configuring and Using Operations Manager 2007
- IV. Administering Operations Manager 2007
- 12. Backup and Recovery
- Roles of Key OpsMgr Files and Databases
- Establishing a Backup Schedule
- Database Grooming
- Backing Up and Restoring the SQL Server Databases
- Backing Up the RMS Encryption Keys
- Recovering from a RMS Loss
- Backing Up Management Packs
- Backing Up Reports
- Backing Up SQL Reporting Services Encryption Keys
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Summary
- 13. Administering Management Packs
- Management Packs Defined
- Management Pack Elements
- Sealing a Management Pack
- Finding Management Pack Information
- Converting MOM 2005 Management Packs
- Planning for Deployment
- Managing Management Packs
- Summary
- 14. Monitoring with Operations Manager
- Why Is Monitoring Important?
- Rules
- Monitors
- Alerts
- Adding Knowledge
- Locating Rules and Monitors in the Operations Console
- Overrides
- Creating Custom Resolution States
- Maintenance Tuning
- Maintenance Mode in OpsMgr
- Resource Kit Utilities
- Summary
- 12. Backup and Recovery
- V. Service-Oriented Monitoring
- 15. Monitoring Audit Collection Services
- Using ACS
- Administering ACS
- ACS Audit Policy and Reporting Scenarios
- Summary
- 16. Client Monitoring
- 17. Monitoring Network Devices
- 18. Using Synthetic Transactions
- 19. Managing a Distributed Environment
- 15. Monitoring Audit Collection Services
- VI. Beyond Operations Manager
- 20. Automatically Adapting Your Environment
- Operations Manager Functionality
- Operations Manager Integration
- Automatically Adapting with Operations Manager
- Summary
- 21. Reading for the Service Provider: Remote Operations Manager
- The Challenge and Opportunity
- Architecture
- Preparing Operations Manager for ROM
- Installing Essentials at the Customer
- Enabling Service Provider Mode in Essentials
- Provisioning Customer Networks
- Summary
- 22. Interoperability
- Talking to the Rest of the World
- Integrating OpsMgr 2007 with Other System Center Applications
- Summary
- 23. Developing Management Packs and Reports
- Developing Management Packs
- Developing Reports
- Creating a Sample Management Pack
- Bringing It All Together
- Summary
- 20. Automatically Adapting Your Environment
- VII. Appendixes
- A. OpsMgr by Example: Configuring and Tuning Management Packs
- B. Performance Counters
- C. Registry Settings
- About the Registry
- Operations Manager–Related Registry Keys
- Agent Settings
- Management Server Settings
- SDK Service Settings
- Config Service Settings
- Operations Database Server Settings
- Data Warehouse Server Settings
- Report Server Settings
- PowerShell Settings
- Audit Collection Services (ACS) Settings
- Operations Manager Event Log Settings
- Operations Manager Health Service
- MOM Connector
- Current Logged-on User
- Certificate Information
- D. Active Directory and Exchange 2003 Management Pack Parameters
- E. Reference URLs
- F. On the CD
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