This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007!

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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.

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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.

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• 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

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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

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Introduction nbsp;1

Part Inbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Operations Management Overview and Concepts

1nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Operations Management Basics nbsp;11

2nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; What''s Newnbsp; 63

3nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Looking Inside OpsMgrnbsp; 97

Part IInbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Planning and Installation

4nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Planning Your Operations Manager Deployment nbsp;137

5nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Planning Complex Configurations nbsp;203

6nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Installing Operations Manager 2007nbsp; 233

7nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Migrating to Operations Manager 2007 nbsp;277

Part IIInbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Moving Toward Application-Centered Management

8nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Configuring and Using Operations Manager 2007 nbsp;303

9nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Installing and Configuring Agents nbsp;369

10nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Complex Configurationsnbsp; 425

11nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Securing Operations Manager 2007 nbsp;471

Part IVnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Administering Operations Manager 2007

12nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Backup and Recoverynbsp; 539

13nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Administering Management Packsnbsp; 593

14nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Monitoring with Operations Manager nbsp;647

Part Vnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Service-Oriented Monitoring

15nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Monitoring Audit Collection Services nbsp;739

16nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Client Monitoring nbsp;797

17nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Monitoring Network Devices nbsp;845

18nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Using Synthetic Transactions nbsp;903

19nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Managing a Distributed Environment nbsp;949

Part VInbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Beyond Operations Manager

20nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Automatically Adapting Your Environment nbsp;1005

21nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Reading for the Service Provider: Remote Operations Manager nbsp;1047

22nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Interoperability nbsp;1095

23nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Developing Management Packs and Reports nbsp;1141

Part VIInbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Appendixes

Anbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; OpsMgr by Example: Configuring and Tuning Management Packs nbsp;1229

Bnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Performance Counters nbsp;1261

Cnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Registry Settings nbsp;1271

Dnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Active Directory and Exchange 2003 Management Pack Parameters nbsp;1295

Enbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Reference URLsnbsp; 1305

Fnbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; On the CD nbsp;1323

Indexnbsp; 1329

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