About This Course
This course is designed to equip students with the skills necessary to deploy and configure System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager. Through hands-on labs, students will learn how to:
• Design and implement a System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Management Group.
• Upgrade and migrate 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.
• Understand the essential elements of Management Packs, including Object Discoveries, Rules, Monitors, Targeting, Run As Accounts, and Run As Profiles. This includes authoring custom Management Packs.
• Configure fabric and application monitoring in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, covering both datacenter and cloud resources such as networking, storage, and compute capabilities.
• Set up monitoring for .NET and Java-based applications using Application Performance Monitoring.
• Implement end-to-end service monitoring, including synthetic transactions and Distributed Application Diagrams.
• Configure Dashboards, Service Level Tracking Reporting, and the SharePoint Web Part to visualize key performance and availability metrics.
• Customize the Operations Manager Console to meet the specific needs of different application support teams.
• Integrate Operations Manager with other System Center 2012 R2 components and extend monitoring to cover critical business processes and procedures.
• Troubleshoot an Operations Manager Management Group and perform disaster recovery procedures, such as database and management server recovery.
• Utilize 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 is cloud and datacenter administrators who are new to System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager and are responsible for deploying, configuring, and operating it in their cloud or datacenter. The secondary audience includes cloud and datacenter administrators already familiar with Operations Manager who want to upgrade their skills to include 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 using 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 using 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.
- Set up 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.
- Create and manage dashboards and widgets in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
- Explain how to use 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 procedures in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager.
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