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System Center Operations Manager 2007 UnleashedAuthors: Kerrie Meyler, Cameron Fuller, John Joyner, Andy Dominey
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Pages: 1416
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 2.4

ISBN: 0672329557
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.4476
EAN: 9780672329555
ASIN: 0672329557

Publication Date: February 29, 2008
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This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007!

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007. Like its MOM 2005 predecessor, OpsMgr 2007 helps you implement operations management, but with a far different and more holistic approach from MOM 2005’s focus on individual servers.

This book guides you through designing, deploying, and configuring OpsMgr 2007. You will find detailed information and hands-on experience on topics such as estimating database sizes and designing redundant OpsMgr configurations. You learn how to tackle challenges such as setting up ACS, establishing client monitoring, using and creating synthetic transactions and distributed applications, and developing management packs and reports.

  • Size your OpsMgr databases
  • Architect for redundancy and performance
  • Install or migrate to OpsMgr 2007
  • Secure OpsMgr
  • Back up OpsMgr components
  • Understand how monitors and rules work
  • Manage different aspects, including ACS, client monitoring, synthetic transactions, and distributed applications
  • Extend OpsMgr
  • Develop management packs and reports

CD-ROM includes:

  • Database sizing spreadsheet
  • Utilities, management packs, and reports
  • Microsoft’s best practices for rule and monitor targeting and PowerShell Cheat Sheet
  • Live Links--more than 200 hypertext links and references to materials, connectors, sites, and newsgroups related to OpsMgr

Contents

Introduction 1

Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts

1 Operations Management Basics 11

2 What’s New 63

3 Looking Inside OpsMgr 97

Part II Planning and Installation

4 Planning Your Operations Manager Deployment 137

5 Planning Complex Configurations 203

6 Installing Operations Manager 2007 233

7 Migrating to Operations Manager 2007 277

Part III Moving Toward Application-Centered Management

8 Configuring and Using Operations Manager 2007 303

9 Installing and Configuring Agents 369

10 Complex Configurations 425

11 Securing Operations Manager 2007 471

Part IV Administering Operations Manager 2007

12 Backup and Recovery 539

13 Administering Management Packs 593

14 Monitoring with Operations Manager 647

Part V Service-Oriented Monitoring

15 Monitoring Audit Collection Services 739

16 Client Monitoring 797

17 Monitoring Network Devices 845

18 Using Synthetic Transactions 903

19 Managing a Distributed Environment 949

Part VI Beyond Operations Manager

20 Automatically Adapting Your Environment 1005

21 Reading for the Service Provider: Remote Operations Manager 1047

22 Interoperability 1095

23 Developing Management Packs and Reports 1141

Part VII Appendixes

A OpsMgr by Example: Configuring and Tuning Management Packs 1229

B Performance Counters 1261

C Registry Settings 1271

D Active Directory and Exchange 2003 Management Pack Parameters 1295

E Reference URLs 1305

F On the CD 1323

Index 1329



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5 out of 5 stars Great Resource   April 1, 2008
Grant Fritchey (MA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful

Anyone that uses System Center Operations Manager knows that the documentation is a bit sparse. This book more than makes up for that lack of information. The authors have created a very thorough and complete set of information starting with outlining the reason for SCOM and the underlying architecture. They spend a great deal of time and effort describing how to install and configure the tool. My favorite sections start about half way through when they get into configuring all the rules and monitors to gather data and respond to alerts. The chapter on reporting was also very helpful. They even include a small section on other management packs in the Appendixes, with information on the one that interests me most, SQL Server. The Appendix also has a great walkthrough on step by step configuring and tuning your own management pack.
I can't say this is a must own for anyone using SCOM, but if you've been floundering a bit, as I have, or you're just getting started, this is a fantastic resource to get you on your feet and get your SCOM system up and running.


5 out of 5 stars Book Review: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed   May 9, 2008
Peter J. Zerger (Tulsa, OK)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

This book is REALLY big. And for the beginner to intermediate Operations Manager administrator, that is a good thing. Clearly this is the book by which all other Operations Manager 2007 books should be measured. I'd say this one compares quite favorably to the other option on the market

Unleashed is infrastructure focused, and delivers great process-related info for not only design, planning and implementation, but more common administrative scenarios than one can count - moving databases, changing accounts, tuning your environment - it's all in there. And while I wouldn't expect many to read this book cover to cover, I think you could reference it regularly in your daily life as an Opsgmr admin for a long time and never look at the same page twice.

From a planning perspective, I think the team did a good job overall providing providing some insight into the decision process when mapping out your Opsmgr infrastructure plan. The ACS chapter in particular had excellent guidance for getting ACS running, and then tweaking the ACS reports to your liking.

As a testament to the size of Operations Manager as a product, the authors make copius references to community sources for scripts and information (kudos to the team for recognizing the community effort). But you'll also find quite a bit of that community data on the very handy CD accompanying the book.

And already in the book, I can see many SP1 changes that didn't make this 1st version due to lead time in editing cycles at the publisher, which is totally necessary. To that end, a 2nd edition is probably in the works, which will likely include many new tricks from recent months and some yet to be discovered.

I think there is something for everybody in Operations Manager Unleashed, and I encourage all Operations Manager administrators to keep one on the shelf for a rainy day.

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5 out of 5 stars Exellent publication !!   April 28, 2008
Craig (Nashville, TN USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

The book is 1300 pages and I have not read it from cover to cover BUT it is more of a reference book for me. The book came with a lot of anticipation in the field and I feel that the book has met with the expectations. It has examples and details that I would expect of a reference book. If you don't know anything about SCOM 2007, it covers concepts and has a CD with other items such as capacity planning. Screen shots, installation shots, tables, external references, powershell exampls, and blog links. It covers a LOT of material


5 out of 5 stars SCOM 2007 Unleashed is a great book   February 13, 2009
A. Beard
I have worked with MS products for 15 years and the unleashed series are definitely the best. Not too dry and they give you real world information that gives me a reference or a detailed explanation of a procedure.


5 out of 5 stars It's more than an overview !   February 27, 2009
Samuel Lambert (Luxembourg)
I'm very satisfied with this book. It provides a lot information, ITIL process, idea and nicely Tips from real world.
I was the first time a bough an unleased book and it's not the last time. This book explains how SCOM is working and not just how used it, this is useful for troubleshooting!!
If you know a little SCOM and you want to be an administrator of this product, reading it help.
Of course if you understand the most of this book, the certification is easy.
Just one bad thing for me, the English is not my native language and it was sometimes hard to understand correctly some chapters ....


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