About This Course
This course empowers students 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 topics:
• Designing 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, and Run As Accounts/Profiles, along with Management Pack authoring.
• Configuring fabric and application monitoring within System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager for both datacenter and cloud resources, such as networking, storage, and compute.
• Setting up monitoring for .NET and Java applications using Application Performance Monitoring.
• Implementing end-to-end service monitoring, encompassing synthetic transactions and Distributed Application Diagrams.
• Configuring Dashboards, Service Level Tracking Reporting, and the SharePoint Web Part to visualize critical performance and availability metrics.
• Customizing the Operations Manager Console to cater to the specific needs of various application support teams.
• Integrating Operations Manager with other System Center 2012 R2 components to extend monitoring capabilities to include essential business processes and procedures.
• Troubleshooting an Operations Manager Management Group and executing disaster recovery procedures, including database and management server recovery.
• Leveraging new features in System Center 2012 R2, such as Integration with System Center Advisor, Team Foundation Server, IntelliTrace, and managing Windows Azure.
Audience Profile
The primary audience for this course consists of cloud and datacenter administrators who are new to System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and are responsible for its deployment, configuration, and operation within their cloud or datacenter environments. The secondary audience includes cloud and datacenter administrators already familiar with Operations Manager who 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.
- Perform various methods of Agent deployment with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Implement key Management Pack concepts and elements, including Management Pack 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.
- Configure 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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