About This Course
This course is designed to equip students with the necessary skills to deploy and configure System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager. Through practical, hands-on labs, students will gain proficiency in 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.
• Gaining a deep understanding of key Management Pack elements, including Object Discoveries, Rules, Monitors, Targeting, Run As Accounts, and Run As Profiles, as well as 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 capabilities.
• Setting up monitoring for .NET and Java-based applications using Application Performance Monitoring.
• Establishing end-to-end service monitoring, which includes synthetic transactions and Distributed Application Diagrams.
• Configuring Dashboards, Service Level Tracking Reporting, and the SharePoint Web Part to visualize key performance and availability metrics.
• Customizing the Operations Manager Console to suit the specific needs of various application support teams.
• Integrating Operations Manager with other System Center 2012 R2 components to extend monitoring to cover essential business processes and procedures.
• Troubleshooting an Operations Manager Management Group and executing disaster recovery procedures, such as database and management server recovery.
• Leveraging 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 comprises cloud and datacenter administrators who are new to System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and are tasked with deploying, configuring, and operating it within their cloud or datacenter environments. The secondary audience includes cloud and datacenter administrators who are already familiar with Operations Manager and wish to upgrade their skills to incorporate the new features found 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 able to:
- Plan for 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.
- Customize the Operations Console with User Roles.
- Execute various methods of Agent deployment with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Implement key Management Pack concepts and elements, including Management Packs Templates.
- Configure Notifications, Reporting, and Service Level Tracking in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Configure the following:
- Audit Collection Services.
- Agentless Exception Monitoring.
- Operations Manager SharePoint Web Part in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Configure Application Performance Monitoring and Network Device monitoring in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Set up dashboards and widgets in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Describe how to utilize new cloud-based features, including System Center Global Service Monitor and System Center Advisor.
- Configure integration between System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and other System Center 2012 R2 components.
- Troubleshoot an Operations Manager Management Group.
- Perform disaster recovery in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
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