This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to managing a Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 management group. This course is intended to develop the necessary skills to install and manage Operations Manager 2007 management servers and supporting roles.
Target Audience:
This course is intended for Windows Server 2003 or later administrators who have experience working within a Windows Active Directory domain environment and have a good understanding of Windows Server based network services. Familiarity with a support ticketing system is helpful.
Pre-requisites:
Before attending this course, students must have:
A+ certification or equivalent knowledge.
Network+ certification or equivalent knowledge.
Completed Course 2274, or have equivalent knowledge.
Completed Course 2275, or have equivalent knowledge.
Completed Course 2277, or have equivalent knowledge.
Completed Course 2278, or have equivalent knowledge.
Completed Course 2279, or have equivalent knowledge
At Course Completion:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
Install and configure a management group.
Configure management group and agent settings.
Identify the components of Management Packs.
Install and configure reporting.
Manage Agentless Exception Monitoring.
Manage Audit Collection Services.
Create Synthetic Transactions.
Create Distributed Applications.
Monitor system in untrusted domains and workgroups.
Module 1: Installing System Center Operations Manager
This module explains how to plan and install the components for the Management Group.
Lessons
Preparing for Operations Manager 2007 R2
Using System Centre Capacity Planner
Security
Installing System Centre Operations Manager 2007 R2
Post Installation
Lab : Installing System Center Operations Manager
Installing System Centre Operations Manager
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Install System Centre Operations Manager 2007 and verify a successful installation.
Module 2: Using the Operations Console
This module explains how to use the Operations Console, create Operator Accounts, use the Web Console and create Views.
Lessons
Reviewing the Workspaces
Using the Web Console
Working with Views
Reviewing Security Roles
Lab : Creating Operator Accounts and Views
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.
Install and use the Web Console.
Create Operators.
Module 3: Configuring Management Group and Agent Settings
This module explains how to define the default management group and agent settings, override the default settings for a management server and agents, and create notifications to be sent when alerts appear.
Lessons
Global Settings
Overriding Global Settings
Creating Notifications
Lab : Creating Notification Settings
Configuring Notification Settings
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.
Module 4: Agent Installation
This module explains how to install and configure the agent used to monitor systems within the Management Group.
Lessons
Configuring Active Directory
Push Installation
Manual Installation
Managing Agents
Lab : Agent Installation
Agent Installation
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.
Module 5: Management Packs
This module explains how to import, export, and manage Management Packs used within the management group.
Lessons
Management Pack Overview
Importing and Exporting Management Packs
Creating and Sealing Management Packs
Lab : Creating Monitors
Creating Monitors
Lab : Associating Run As Profiles with a Management Pack
Associating Run As Profiles with a Management Pack
Lab : Configuring Overrides
Configuring Overrides
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.
Module 6: Reporting
This module explains how configure the reporting components for the management group.
Lessons
Installing and Configuring SQL Reporting Services
Installing Operations Manager Reporting
Creating and Viewing Reports
Lab : Creating Reports
Creating Reports
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.
Module 7: Agentless Exception Monitoring
This module explains how to configure the settings and group policy options for Agentless Exception Monitoring.
Lessons
Configuring Exception Monitoring
Managing Clients
Lab : Configuring Agentless Exception Monitoring
Configuring Agentless Exception 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.
Module 8: Audit Collection Services
This module explains how to collect audit information from monitored systems and display the collected audit information using reports.
Lessons
Audit Collection Services Overview
Installing Audit Collection Services
Configuring Forwarders and Collectors
Importing ACS Reports
Lab : Configuring Forwarders
Configuring Forwarders
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Install and configure Audit Collection Services.
Optimise auditing.
Import Auditing reports.
Module 9: Synthetic Transactions
This module explains how to create transactions that mimic user actions and test functionality.
Lessons
Synthetic Transactions
Lab : Creating Synthetic Transactions
Creating Synthetic Transactions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Identify the components of a Synthetic Transaction.
Create a Synthetic Transaction using the wizard.
Module 10: Distributed Applications
This module explains how to name, declare, assign values to, and use variables. It also describes how to store data in an array.
Lessons
Distributed Applications
Lab : Creating a Distributed Application Model
Creating a Distributed Application Model
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Use the Distributed Application wizard.
Identify the components of a Distributed Application.
Module 11: Monitoring Non-Microsoft Platforms
This module explains how to monitor non-Microsoft operating systems and devices.
Lessons
Tools for Monitoring Non-Microsoft Platforms
Using the Cross-Platform Extensions
Lab : Installing the Cross-Platform Client
Installing the Cross-Platform Client
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Understand the requirements for monitoring Linux and Unix systems.
Configure agent installation for Linux and Unix systems.
Monitor Linux and Unix systems.
Module 12: Complex Environments
This module explains how to configure complex scenarios. The information covered includes multihoming an agent so that it reports monitoring data to more than one management group, configuring agents in untrusted domains to use certificate-based authentication, configuring a gateway server to support clients in untrusted domains, and configuring management groups in a hierarchy.
Lessons
Multi-homing Agents
Untrusted Environments
Multi-Tiered Environments
Lab : Connecting Management Groups
Connecting Management Groups
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Multihome an agent.
Create a connector to another management group.
Create a connector subscription to a third-party management product.
Configure Certificate-based authentication.
Configure a Gateway Server.
Module 13: Backup and Recovery
This module explains how to safeguard the management group from failure by backing up the required systems and components.
Lessons
Planning Backup and Restore
Performing a Backup
Planning Restore Strategies
Lab : Promoting a Management Server
Promoting a Management Server
After completing this module, students will be able to:
