System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed

Product Description

This is the first comprehensive Operations Manager 2012 technical resource for every IT implementer & administrator. Building on their bestselling Ops Mgr 2007 book three Microsoft System Center Cloud & Data Center Management MVPs thoroughly illuminate major improvements in Microsoft's newest version-including new enhancements just added in Service Pack 1. You'll find all the information you need to efficiently manage cloud & datacenter applications & services in even the most complex environment. The authors provide up-to-date best practices for planning installation migration configuration administration security compliance dashboards forecasting backup/recovery management packs monitoring including. NET monitoring Power Shell automation & much more. Drawing on decades of enterprise & service provider experience they also offer indispensable insights for integrating with your existing Microsoft & third-party infrastructure. Detailed information on how to...* Plan & execute a smooth Ops Mgr 2012 deployment or migration * Move toward application-centered management in complex environments * Secure Ops Mgr 2012 & assure compliance through Audit Collection Services * Implement dashboards identify trends & improve forecasting * Maintain & protect each of your Ops Mgr 2012 databases * Monitor virtually any application environment or device: client-based. NET distributed networked agentless or agent-managed * Use synthetic transactions to monitor application performance & responsiveness * Install UNIX/ Linux cross-platform agents * Integrate Ops Mgr into virtualized environments * Manage & author management packs & reports * Automate key tasks with Power Shell agents & alerts * Create scalable management clouds for service provider/multi-tenant environments * Use Ops Mgr 2012 Service Pack 1 with Windows Server 2012 & SQL Server 2012