Overview
This five-day instructor-led course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to install and configure System Center 2012 Operations Manager. In addition to this class will prepare the participant for managing their 2012 Operations Manager infrastructure.
Prerequisites
Participants who wish to take up this course should meet the following prerequisites:
- Familiarity with PC hardware and devices
- Experience supporting Windows-based systems
- Basic experience authoring and editing batch and script files
- Experience reviewing Windows application and service logs
- Experience configuring or supporting distributed application environments
- Working knowledge of Windows Server 2008 operating system and network configuration
- Working Knowledge of Active Directory
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for IT professionals with basic Windows Server, Active Directory and network configuration and management experience.
Course Outline
- Operations Manager Introduction and Basic Concepts
- What’s New in 2012 Operations Manager
- System Requirements
- Active Directory Integration
- SQL Server Configuration
- Security Considerations
- Operations Manager Deployment Scenarios
- Installing Operations Manager 2012
- Operations Manager Console Overview
- Customizing the Operations Manager Console
- Securing the Operations Manager Console
- Operations Manager Web Console Overview
- Connected Management Groups and Management Services
- Configuring Global Management Group Settings
- Overriding Global Management Group Settings
- Creating Notifications
- Agent Installation Prerequisites
- Agent Installation Methods
- Managing Agent Settings
- Management Pack Overview
- Pre-installed Management Packs
- Importing and Exporting Management Packs
- Management Pack Authoring
- Monitoring Overview
- Types of Monitors
- Network Monitoring
- Agentless Monitoring
- Agentless Exception Monitoring
- Installing SQL Reporting Services
- Installing Operations Manager Reporting
- Creating, Viewing and Customizing Reports
- Overview of ACS
- Installing and Configuring ACS
- Forwarders and Collectors
- ACS on non-Windows Systems (Unix/Linux)
- Synthetic Transactions Overview
- Creating Synthetic Transactions
- Distributed Applications Overview
- Design and Creation of Distributed Applications
- Management Groups and Multihomed Agents
- Gateway Servers and Untrusted Environments
- Backup Overview and Planning
- Configuring and Performing Backups
- Recovery Planning
