50028B Installing and Configuring System Center Operations Manager 2007
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Course Overview
  This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to managing a Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 management group. This course is intended to develop the necessary skills to install and manage Operations Manager 2007 management servers and supporting roles.
Objectives
  After completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Install and configure a management group.
  • Install a clustered Root Management Server.
  • Configure management group and agent settings.
  • Install and configure reporting.
  • Manage Agentless Exception Monitoring.
  • Manage Audit Collection Services.
  • Use Windows PowerShell to manage the management group.
  • Configure a management group hierarchy.
  • Migrate from Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to System Center Operations Manager 2007.

Audience
  This course is intended for Windows Server 2003 or later administrators who have experience working within a Windows Active Directory domain environment and have a good understanding of Windows Server based network services. Familiarity with a support ticketing system is helpful.

Prerequisites
  Before attending this course, students must have:
  • A+ certification or equivalent knowledge.
  • Network+ certification or equivalent knowledge.
  • Completed Course 2274, or have equivalent knowledge.
  • Completed Course 2275, or have equivalent knowledge.
  • Completed Course 2277, or have equivalent knowledge.
  • Completed Course 2278, or have equivalent knowledge.
  • Completed Course 2279, or have equivalent knowledge
Course Number
  MI50028
Course Length
  5 Days
Course Price
  $3,180.00
Category
  3
Topics
  Module 1: Installing Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007
This module explains how to install System Center Configuration Manager 2007 in a single Root Management Server configuration and a clustered highly available Root Management Server configuration

Lessons
  • Identifying and installing prerequisites
  • Installing System Center Operations Manager 2007
  • Post Installation
Lab A: Installing System Center Operations Manager
  • Installing the Operations Manager Components
Lab B: Installing a Clustered RMS
  • Creating Cluster Resources
  • Installing the Operational Database
  • Installing the RMS Node
  • Installing the Secondary Management Server
  • Creating the Services
  • Creating the RMS Cluster Virtual Server
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Identify the requirements for installing System Center Operations Manager 2007.
  • Install System Center Operations Manager 2007 and verify a successful installation.
Module 2: Using the Operations Console
This module explains how to use the Operations Console and how to perform configuration tasks.

Lessons
  • Overview of the Operations Console
  • Creating Operator Accounts
  • Using the Web Console
  • Working with Views
Lab: Creating Operator Accounts and Views
  • Creating User Roles
  • Monitoring with a Remote Console
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Install the Operations Console on another system.
  • Understand the workspaces and views.
  • Work with the actions available for a given object.
Module 3: Using Operations Manager 2007 Command Shell
This module explains how to use the PowerShell commands that are available within Operations Manager 2007.
Lessons
  • Command Shell Overview
  • Using Command Shell Operations Manager 2007
Lab: Using the Command Shell
    Running Individual Commands
  • Scripting Commands
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Identify how the command shell is used.
  • Understand the cmdlets that are included with Operations Manager 2007.
Module 4: Configuring Management Group and Agent Settings
This module explains how to configure the global management group settings and the individual agent settings within Operations Manager 2007.

Lessons
  • Global Settings
  • Overriding Global Settings
  • Creating Notifications
Lab: Configuring Notification Settings
  • Setting Management Group Notification Options
  • Creating Notification Recipients
  • Creating Notification Subscriptions
  • Testing Notification Subscriptions
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Configure default management group settings.
  • Override the default management group setting.
  • Configure notification settings and define who will receive the notifications.
Module 5: Agent Installation
This module explains how to deploy the Operations Manager agent within the management group.

Lessons
  • Configuring Active Directory
  • Automatic Installation
  • Manual Installation
  • Managing Agents
Lab: Agent Installation
  • Manually Installing the Agent
  • Approving the Manually Installed Agent
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Create an Active Directory container for automatic agent assignment.
  • Configure automatic installation settings
  • Manually install and approve an agent.
Module 6: Management Packs
This module explains how to import, export and manage the objects within a management pack.

Lessons
  • Overview of Management Packs
  • Importing and Exporting Management Packs
  • Creating and Sealing Management Packs
Lab A: Creating Monitors
  • Creating a Self-Tuning Threshold Monitor
  • Creating a Correlated Windows Event Unit Monitor
Lab B: Creating Tasks
  • Creating a Task
  • Testing a Task
Lab C: Associating Run As Profiles with a Management Pack
  • Creating a Run As Profile
  • Testing a Task
Lab D: Configuring Overrides
  • Create and Verify the Override
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Define the components that make up a management pack.
  • Create a new management pack.
  • Export and import management packs.
  • Seal a management pack.
Module 7: Reporting
This module explains how to install and configure SQL Reporting Services and then install Operations Manager Reporting and create reports.

Lessons
  • Installing and Configuring SQL Reporting Services
  • Installing Operations Manager Reporting
  • Creating and Viewing Reports
Lab A: Creating Reports
  • Creating a Model
  • Creating a Report
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Install and configure SQL Reporting Services
  • Install and configure Operations Manager Reporting.
  • View Reports.
  • Create reports using Report Builder.
Module 8: Agentless Exception Monitoring
This module explains how to configure Agentless Exception Monitoring to monitor for application faults and then monitor the client systems.

Lessons
  • Configuration Exception Monitoring
  • Managing Clients
Lab: Configuring Agentless Exception Monitoring
  • Configuring Client Monitoring
  • Configuring Group Policy
  • Testing Client Monitoring
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Configure a management server as an Agentless Exception Monitoring collector.
  • Configure clients to generate error reports and send them to the management server.
Module 9: Audit Collection Services
This module explains how to install and configure Audit Collection Services, how to enable forwarders and how to manage collectors and forwarders using the Command Shell.

Lessons
  • Audit Collection Services Overview
  • Installing Audit Collection Services
  • Configuring Forwarders and Collectors
Lab A: Configuring Forwarders
  • Enabling Forwarders
Lab B: Configuring ACS Reports
  • Import ACS Reports
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Install and configure Audit Collection Services.
  • Optimize auditing.
  • Create auditing reports.
Module 10: Synthetic Transactions and Distributed Applications
This module explains how to create a synthetic transaction to proactively monitor components. It also explains how to create and use distributed applications to provide end-to-end service monitoring.

Lessons
  • Synthetic Transactions
  • Distributed Applications
Lab A: Creating Synthetic Transactions
  • Building the Synthetic Transaction
  • Testing the Synthetic Transaction
Lab B: Creating a Distributed Application
  • Building the Model
  • Testing the Distributed Application
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Create and use Synthetic Transactions.
  • Create and use Distributed Applications.
Module 11: Complex Environments
This module explains how to configure agents to send monitoring data to multiple management servers in multiple management groups. It also explains how to install and configure a Gateway server for clients in untrusted domains and how to configure multiple management groups to interoperate.
Lessons
  • Multi-homing Agents Practice: Multi-homing an Agent
  • Untrusted Environments Practice: Installing and approving a Gateway Server
  • Multi-Tiered Environments
Lab: Connecting Management Groups
  • Configuring Subscriptions
  • Configuring Operator Accounts
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Multi-Home an agent.
  • Create a Gateway server to monitor an untrusted domain.
  • Create connectors to other management groups and third party products.
Module 12: Migrating from MOM 2005 to Operations Manager 2007
This module explains how to import, export and manage the objects within a management pack.

Lessons
  • Migration Overview
  • Using the Migration Tool
  • Converting Management Packs
Lab: Converting Management Packs
  • Using the Migration Tool<
After completing this module, students will be able to:
  • Identify the migration methods.
  • Perform a migration to Operations Manager 2007.
  • Convert management packs from MOM 2005 format to Operations Manager 2007 format.
  • Identify changes in the management pack formats.