Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook - Couverture souple

Beaumont, Steve; Horner, Jonathan; Odika, Chiyo; Ryan, Robert

 
9781782176244: Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook

Synopsis

Learn how to deploy, configure, and maintain System Center Operations Manager with 50 recipes designed to help you meet the challenges of managing a complex IT system

About This Book

  • Discover how System Center Operations Manager can help your business and how its deployment can deliver stunning ROI
  • Learn how to optimize System Center 2012 Operations Manager and how to create an effective system architecture
  • Learn best practices for creating effective configurations that will give you a deeper insight into your environment

Who This Book Is For

If you are tasked with monitoring the IT infrastructure within your organization, this book demonstrates how System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager offers a radical and exciting solution to modern administration.

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to architect an Operations Manager environment
  • Find out how to deploy a highly available environment
  • Discover tips on how to customize and configure Operations Manager
  • Learn how to tune and maintain your deployment
  • Successfully monitor key business applications
  • Author custom monitoring to extend your monitoring reach
  • Integrate Operations Manager with other System Center 2012 R2 components
  • Discover how to create notifications, reports, and dashboards

In Detail

As organizations become more and more dependent upon a powerful IT infrastructure, there is increased pressure on administrators to be able to monitor and troubleshoot quickly and effectively. Systems Center Operations Manager makes this possible, giving administrators a simple way to manage the performance of their infrastructure and allowing them to focus on steps to optimize and improve it.

Beginning with an introduction to the architecture of SCOM, you will then learn how to integrate and align it with the needs of your business. The book then covers how to configure System Center R2 Operations Manager, deploy monitoring agents, and use the admin console. You will learn about best practices for overrides and tuning, tips for effective maintenance, and learn to monitor applications across a wide-range of platforms within the environment, creating advanced customizations. You will finish by integrating Operations Manager with other R2 components and discovering the powerful data you can collect using this vital tool.

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À propos de l?auteur

Steve Beaumont (MVP)

Steve Beaumont has worked for more years than he cares to admit within IT, starting with desktop support. He is now the technical director of PowerONPlatforms and an MVP within the System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management group, where he helps organizations realize the benefits of the hybrid cloud. He is the coauthor of Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook and System Center 2012 Orchestrator Cookbook. He maintains his own blog at http://systemcenter.ninja. It covers all System Center components and areas related to desktop design, deployment, and optimization. His passion for everything about System Center and IT systems management reflects through all areas of his work, presentation, and day-to-day life in the form of new and innovative solutions brought to the market by PowerONPlatforms.



Jonathan Horner

Jonathan Horner has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years. Starting his career at a small consultancy company, he took up many diverse roles, from implementing PC rollouts to running the infrastructure for a major online supermarket. For the last 14 years, Jonathan has been using multiple versions of System Center to help with his tasks. Over many of these years, he specialized in Operations Manager and gained expertise in writing custom management packs for specialized solutions, using many authoring tools along the way. He was one of the earliest people to gain an MCSE in private cloud by passing the exams before they were publically released. He is also a qualified MCT and provides training in many areas of System Center. Jonathan now works at Inframon, a specialist in cloud transformation, where he is the head of the support services team. His team provides telephone support on System Center issues as well as remote-managed and remote-hosted System Center solutions for multiple clients.



Chiyo Odika

Chiyo Odika is a senior consultant with Concurrency Inc., a US-based IT solutions provider. While at Concurrency, and also prior to joining it, he architected and configured a wide range of System Center deployments, from small single-site deployments to deployments spanning global infrastructures. He has over 8 years of experience in IT, managing systems, and architecting solutions using a broad range of technologies and platforms. Chiyo holds bachelor's and master's degrees in business and information systems, respectively, and holds an ever-growing list of technology certifications. He has a keen interest in strategies to optimize the service delivery of IT to businesses, and he shares his technology experiences with the community through his blogs at http://mrchiyo.com and http://www.concurrency.com/blog/. Chiyo balances a life of passion for business and technology with his passion for entrepreneurship and service leadership. He has cofounded various business endeavors and is involved in nonprofit and other causes that are of interest to him. When he is not working on the latest cloud technologies, you can find him learning about economic theory, analyzing the markets, and following the latest news and strategies about chess.



Robert Ryan

Robert Ryan is an IT professional with over 15 years of industry experience. He works in both public and private sectors to provide third-line infrastructure support across the globe. He is responsible for major technology projects, including server rationalization, virtualization, and messaging. Currently, he is focusing on private cloud deployments using the Microsoft System Centre suite. In his free time, Robert enjoys technology and films. He likes to spend time with his wife, Natalie, and their five children. He is a frequent blogger at http://scnuggets.blogspot.com.

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