Essential Microsoft Operations Manager (Paperback)

For system administrators, ensuring that all Windows servers are performing optimally is a tall order. The larger the enterprise, the greater the chance for irritating, time-consuming configuration problems. Sometimes, you can determine the root cause of the problem yourself-but that's only if you're lucky.

With Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), the diagnosis is done for you. MOM monitors server operations and automatically notifies you of problems by sending an immediate alert to your console, email address, or pager. To help you better understand how MOM works, O'Reilly presents Essential Microsoft Operations Manager.

The goal of this comprehensive tutorial is to give first-time MOM administrators a solid foundation for planning, implementing, and administering MOM 2005. Author Chris Fox, a renowned MOM expert, offers the type of practical, real-world advice that you need to improve the performance of your IT infrastructure.

After taking you through the entire process of setting up MOM on the network, the book moves on to more advanced administration issues. It carefully instructs you how to program and automate MOM and the agents that reside on the servers themselves. You'll also learn how to manage the scripts that determine which server agents are relevant to report.

By capturing system data, intelligently analyzing it, and then notifying you with a suggested course of action, MOM makes extinguishing fires a breeze. And now, thanks to
Essential Microsoft Operations Manager, learning how to use MOM is a breeze, too.

 

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Part I. Introducing Operations Management and MOM 2005

1. Introduction to MOM 2005

     Using MOM 2005

     Basic MOM Structure

     The Life of a MOM 2005 Alert

     MOM 2005 Components

     Additional Components

     Summary

2. Designing, Planning, and Implementing MOM 2005

     Requirement Gathering

     Design Decisions

     Pre-Installation Configuration Decisions

     Testing and Piloting

     Implementation

     Installation Specifics

     Summary

Part II. Managing and Using MOM on a Daily Basis

3. Managing Agents

     Agent Functions

     Preparing to Deploy Agents

     Deploying and Managing Agents in a Trusted LAN

     Deploying and Managing Agents Across a Firewall and a Slow WAN Link

     Deploying and Managing Agents Into an Untrusted Environment

     Deploying and Managing Agents from Multiple Management Groups

     Troubleshooting

     Tools

     Summary

4. Administering Management Packs

     Management Pack Life Cycle

     Importing Management Packs into Preproduction

     Transfer the Management Pack to Production

     Creating Simple Management Packs

     Summary

5. Administering Global Settings

     Alerts

     Connections

     Maintenance

     Summary

6. Operator Console

     Console Scopes

     Creating a Custom Console Scope

     Using the Console

     Summary

7. MOM 2005 Database Fundamentals

     SQL Server Enterprise Manager

     Data Transformation Service

     MOM 2005 Reporting Databases

     Summary

8. MOM 2005 Reporting

     Installation

     Administering MOM 2005 Reporting

     Summary

Part III. MOM 2005 Enterprise Integration

9. Connecting MOM 2005

     Partitioning

     Connecting MOM to MOM

     Summary

10. Extending Monitoring

     Understanding SNMP

     Windows and MOM Implementation of SNMP

     Configuring Windows and MOM for SNMP

     Syslog

     Summary

Glossary

Index