MOC 10964: Datacenter Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager

This 4 day instructor-led training class is presented by Microsoft training partners to their end customers. Training partners in North America and the UK hire proven AMS Subject Matter Expert Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCT’s) to teach on-site and on-line classes.

Students attending this class will get hands-on instruction and practice implementing infrastructure and application monitoring with System Center 2012 Operations Manager. System Center 2012 Operations Manager provides infrastructure monitoring that is flexible and cost-effective, helps ensure the predictable performance and availability of vital applications, and offers comprehensive monitoring for your datacenter and cloud, both private and public. You will learn the skills you need to proactively monitor and respond to server and service availability, low performance, and security issues for servers in the datacenter. Students will also learn key Operations Manager concepts such as Management Packs, Overrides, and Distributed Application Models. You will learn how to configure some of the key new features in Operations Manager such as Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Network Device Monitoring, Dashboards, and Widgets. As part of the learning experience, you will perform hands-on exercises in a virtual lab environment.

Class Audience: This class is intended for private cloud and Datacenter administrators responsible for deploying, configuring and operating System Center 2012 Operations Manager.

Class Objectives:
• Describe the key features and functionality of System Center 2012 Operations Manager including the hardware and software requirements, security considerations and how to migrate and upgrade to System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
• Describe the various methods of deploying Agents with System Center 2012 Operations Manager and the key elements in Management Packs and Management Packs Templates.
• Configure Notifications, Reporting and Service Level Tracking in System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
• Configure Audit Collection Services, Agentless Exception Monitoring and the Operations Manager SharePoint Web Part in System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
• Configure Application Performance Monitoring and Network Device monitoring in System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
• Configure Dashboard and Widgets in System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
• Configure integration between System Center 2012 Operations Manager and other System Center 2012 components.

Student Prerequisites:
• One or more years’ experience in the design and implementation of System Center Operations Manager 2007 or System Center Operations Manager 2007
• Working knowledge of SharePoint Server 2010
• Working knowledge of SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012
• Working knowledge of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012

Class Outline:
I. Module 1: Installing System Center 2012 Operations Manager
1. Operations Manager Overview
2. Core Components and Topology
3. Security Considerations and Hardware and Software Requirements
4. Upgrading to System Center 2012 Operations Manager
5. Migrating to System Center 2012 Operations Manager
6. Lab : Upgrading to Operations Manager 2012
7. Lab : Installing a New System Center 2012 Operations Management Group
II. Module 2: Agent Deployment and Management Packs
1. Agent Deployment Methods
2. Management Packs Overview
3. Management Packs Templates
4. Distributed Application Models
5. Lab : Deploying Agents and Configuring Base Monitoring
III. Module 3: Configuring Notifications, Reporting and Service Level Tracking
1. Configuring Notification Subscriptions
2. Configure and Manage Reporting in Operations Manager
3. Configuring Service Level Tracking
4. Lab : Configuring Notifications, Reporting and Service Level Tracking
IV. Module 4: Configuring Audit Collection Services, Agentless Exception Monitoring and the Operations Manager SharePoint Web Part
1. Configuring Audit Collection Services (ACS)
2. Configuring Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM)
3. Configuring the SharePoint Web Part
4. Lab : Configuring ACS, AEM and the SharePoint Portal
V. Module 5: Application and Network Device Monitoring
1. Application Performance Monitoring
2. Synthetic Transactions and Global Service Monitoring
3. .NET Distributed Application Monitoring Templates and TFS Integration
4. Network Monitoring
5. Lab : Monitoring .NET Applications and Network Devices
VI. Module 6: Configuring Dashboards and Widgets
1. Dashboards and Widgets Overview
2. Configuring Custom Dashboards
3. Lab : Configuring Dashboards and Widgets
VII. Module 7: Integrating Operations Manager with other System Center Components
1. Service Manager Integration
2. Data Protection Manager Integration
3. Virtual Machine Manager Integration
4. Orchestrator Integration
5. Lab : Configuring System Center Integration

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