Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed: With A Preview of Operations Manager 2007

Description

This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005!

 

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed provides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. MOM is a tool that helps implement operations management, but it is not a piece of software that you can simply install and instantly have working.

 

This book provides reference material that will guide you through the steps to design, deploy, and configure MOM within your environment. You learn how to tune your MOM environment and tackle common challenges, such as managing your Microsoft operating systems, directory services, messaging platforms, and databases. Inside you will find comprehensive information on how to develop your own reports and management packs for your MOM environment as well as practical real-world examples, based on hands-on MOM experience.

 

·         Plan your MOM deployment

·         Architect MOM for performance, redundancy, and security

·         Install or upgrade to MOM 2005

·         Back up important MOM components

·         Implement, troubleshoot, deploy, and manage management packs

·         Work with rules and tune them

·         Manage different aspects of your environment, including the Windows operating system, directory services, Exchange email, and SQL Server

·         Extend MOM using connectors and third-party management packs

·         Develop management packs, reports, and scripts

·         Prepare for the next version of Operations Manager

 

CD–ROM includes

 

·         Microsoft’s MOM 2005 Resource Kit and MOM 2005 Sizer

·         MOM Agent Monitor

·         Management packs and scripts written or customized for this book

·         Live Links—more than 100 (clickable) hypertext links and references to materials and sites related to Operations Manager