Learning Path: Managing Infrastructures With Microsoft Scom

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.