About This Course
This course provides learners with the essential skills needed to deploy and configure System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager. Through practical, hands-on labs, students will master the following areas:
• Architecting and implementing a System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Management Group.
• Upgrading and migrating from an existing Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Group to System Center 2012 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager, and System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
• Understanding the fundamental elements of Management Packs, including Object Discoveries, Rules, Monitors, Targeting, and Run As Accounts and Profiles. This includes the process of authoring Management Packs.
• Configuring fabric and application monitoring within System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, covering both datacenter and cloud resources such as networking, storage, and compute.
• Setting up monitoring for .NET and Java-based applications using Application Performance Monitoring.
• Configuring end-to-end service monitoring, which involves synthetic transactions and Distributed Application Diagrams.
• Configuring Dashboards, Service Level Tracking Reporting, and the SharePoint Web Part to facilitate the visualization of critical performance and availability metrics.
• Customizing the Operations Manager Console to address the specific needs of various application support teams.
• Integrating Operations Manager with other System Center 2012 R2 components and extending monitoring capabilities to encompass key business processes and procedures.
• Troubleshooting an Operations Manager Management Group and executing disaster recovery procedures, such as database and management server recovery.
• Utilizing new features in System Center 2012 R2, including integration with System Center Advisor, Team Foundation Server, IntelliTrace, and managing Windows Azure.
Audience Profile
The primary audience for this course includes cloud and datacenter administrators who are new to System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and are tasked with its deployment, configuration, and operation within their cloud or datacenter environments. The secondary audience comprises cloud and datacenter administrators who are already familiar with Operations Manager and wish to enhance their skills by learning the new features introduced in System Center 2012 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager, and System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
At Course Completion
Upon completing this course, students will be capable of:
- Planning the deployment of System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, including:
- Defining hardware and software requirements.
- Describing security considerations.
- Architecting a highly available System Center and Microsoft SQL Server platform utilizing Microsoft SQL Server AlwaysOn.
- Planning for migration and upgrade scenarios to System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Customizing the Operations Console with User Roles.
- Performing various methods of Agent deployment with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Implementing key Management Pack concepts and elements, including Management Pack Templates.
- Configuring Notifications, Reporting, and Service Level Tracking in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Configuring the following:
- Audit Collection Services.
- Agentless Exception Monitoring.
- Operations Manager SharePoint Web Part in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Configuring Application Performance Monitoring and Network Device monitoring in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Configuring dashboards and widgets in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Describing how to utilize new cloud-based features, including System Center Global Service Monitor and System Center Advisor.
- Configuring integration between System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and other System Center 2012 R2 components.
- Troubleshooting an Operations Manager Management Group.
- Performing disaster recovery in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
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