Get well-versed with infrastructure monitoring and advanced SCOM functionalities, and implement it for your organization
What you'll learn
Plan for the deployment of System Center 2016 Operations Manager
Understand hardware and software requirements and security considerations
Perform different methods of Agent deployment with System Center 2016 Operations Manager
Deploy Management Packs and configure Management Packs Templates
Deploy applications and settings for your device using various third-party options
Requirements
No prior knowledge of SCCM 2016 is required
You need to have prior knowledge of system administration
Description
If you're a systems administrator or an IT operations professional who wants to monitor your infrastructure and applications using SCOM 2016, or if you are just someone who is looking to gain expertise at System Center Operation Manager, this Learning Path is for you.
As organizations become more and more dependent upon a powerful IT infrastructure, there is increased pressure on administrators to be able to monitor and troubleshoot quickly and effectively. Systems Center Operations Manager (SCOM) makes this possible by giving administrators a simple way to manage the performance of their infrastructure and allowing them to focus on the steps to optimize and improve it.
SCOM: Manage Infrastructures with Systems Center 2016 Operations Manager is Packt's Video Learning Path that is a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.
This Learning Path will start by enlightening you on the core fundamentals that will help you leverage your IT assets in order to derive high benefits. We will demonstrate the configuration and deployment aspect of SCOM and its various services based on your business requirements. We then focus on explaining the core concepts of SCOM such as Management Servers and Packs, Services, and Agents along with teaching you the latest features of SCOM 2016.
This Learning Path then covers advanced monitors and data collection,where you'll learn to gather data and put it on dashboards. You'll then learn to integrate the Operational Management Suite to delegate access to websites. You'll finish by learning how to Integrate PowerShell with SCOM.
The goal of this Learning Path is to make a master out of you in SCOM 2016.
This Learning Path is authored by some of the best in the field.
About the Author
Jerome Jones is a technical instructor and consultant with over 20 years of IT and instructional experience specializing in System Center (Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, Service Manager, and Orchestrator), Windows Server, Windows Client, and Microsoft Exchange. He has been an instructor and consultant since 2005 earning his MCT, MCSE-Messaging, MCSA-Messaging, MCITP, and MCTS.
Stephen Hohman has 24 years of experience with Microsoft products. He is a Senior-level Microsoft Solutions Consultant with over 24 years of experience working with clients on technology requirements. His primary areas of knowledge include a large suite of Microsoft technologies deployed in every Active Directory based environment, in addition to Exchange server and System Center 2012 R2 (Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Service Manager, AppController, App-v, Orchestrator, and Configuration Manager).
Stephen Hohman has 24 years of experience with Microsoft products. He is a Senior-level Microsoft Solutions Consultant with over 24 years of experience working with clients on technology requirements. His primary areas of knowledge include a large suite of Microsoft technologies deployed in every Active Directory based environment, in addition to Exchange server and System Center 2012 R2 (Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Service Manager, AppController, App-v, Orchestrator, and Configuration Manager).
Overview
Section 1: Getting started with System Center Operations Manager 2016
Lecture 1 Planning and Designing Your Environment
Lecture 2 Operations Manager Components
Lecture 3 System Center Operations Manager 2016 Hardware and Software Prerequisites
Lecture 4 Installing the Management Group
Lecture 5 Additional Management Server Installation
Lecture 6 Reporting
Lecture 7 Configuring Management Group Global Settings
Lecture 8 Individual Server Options
Lecture 9 Installing the Operations Manager Agent
Lecture 10 Configuring Individual Settings
Lecture 11 Deploying Agents to Other Clients
Lecture 12 Discovering Network Devices
Lecture 13 Understanding Management Packs
Lecture 14 Exploring Management Packs Components
Lecture 15 Importing Management Packs
Lecture 16 Tuning Management Packs
Lecture 17 Application Performance Monitoring Overview
Lecture 18 End-to-End Service Monitoring
Lecture 19 Creating a Distributed Application
Lecture 20 Management Pack Templates
Lecture 21 Overview of the Different Consoles
Lecture 22 Operations Manager Console Overview
Lecture 23 Creating Notification Subscriptions
Lecture 24 Using Custom Utilities
Lecture 25 Working with Monitors
Lecture 26 Optimizing Rules
Lecture 27 Operations Manager Components
Lecture 28 Common Backup and Restore Scenarios
Lecture 29 Backup and Restore Basics
Lecture 30 Service Manager Integrations
Lecture 31 Data Protection Manager Integration
Lecture 32 Orchestrator Integration
Section 2: Advanced System Center 2016 Operations Manager
Lecture 33 The Course Overview
Lecture 34 Understanding What Management Packs Control
Lecture 35 Management Pack Role in Customizing Notifications and Views
Lecture 36 Management Pack Tools and Maintenance
Lecture 37 Alerts by Management Pack
Lecture 38 Groups and Alerts in Operations Manager
Lecture 39 Other Alerting Methods
Lecture 40 Understanding Run-As Account Distribution
Lecture 41 Run-As Account Distribution for Active Directory
Lecture 42 SQL Configuration for Monitoring in Operations Manager
Lecture 43 Gathering Monitoring Requirements
Lecture 44 Application Performance Monitoring
Lecture 45 Windows Services
Lecture 46 Maintenance Windows
Lecture 47 Distributed Application Concepts
Lecture 48 Gathering Objects into a Distributed Application
Lecture 49 Exporting and Modifying a Distributed Application in Vision
Lecture 50 Saving Visio-based Distributed Applications as Web Parts
Lecture 51 Built-in Dashboards
Lecture 52 Custom Dashboards
Lecture 53 Service Level Agreement Dashboards
Lecture 54 OMS History and Future
Lecture 55 Sending Data to OMS
Lecture 56 Adding OMS Solutions
Lecture 57 Taking Action against OMS Results
Lecture 58 Delegation Concepts
Lecture 59 Granting View-Only Access
Lecture 60 Granting the Ability to Take Actions against Alerts
Lecture 61 Grant Access to APM Information and Details
Lecture 62 The Operations Manager Command Shell
Lecture 63 Automating Common Administrative Tasks
Lecture 64 Real-World PowerShell Examples
This Learning Path is for system administrators and IT Operations professionals who want to monitor their infrastructure and applications using SCOM 2016.
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