SCOM1801: System Center Operations Manager 1801

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About this Course

This course is intended for Enterprise Systems Engineers, Administrators and System Integrators who need to implement Service Monitoring using System Center Operations Manager 1801 (SCOM 1801). The class is continuously updated to cover the latest release of the product.

Throughout this course, you learn how to:

  • Install and Configure SCOM 1801 on Windows Server 2016 and SQL Server 2012, Report Services and Web service.
  • Describe and understand the logical architecture of an SCOM infrastructure
  • Articulate the functions of the components and services in an SCOM infrastructure
  • Troubleshoot issues with SCOM components and Agent Monitoring
  • Design end-to-end monitoring of Services – Multi layered application design
  • Working with SCOM in conjunction with other System Center products
  • Use the Silverlight Web console
  • Present your views in the Console, Web Silverlight console, Sharepoint as IFrames or as Web Parts.
  • Working with Visio to present Services, Agents and classes you design.
  • Create Management Packs with the console, the authoring console, Visio and Visual Studio.
  • Using PowerShell to get information about the SCOM environment
  • Describe and understand the logical architecture of an SCOM infrastructure
  • Configuring a distributed SCOM installation and defining resource pools
  • Modeling Applications in a way so it will be possible to monitor each layer
  • Deciding the best Authoring solution and using the correct type of monitoringobject
  • Defining and using different tools to Create Management Packs Going through all Monitoring objects with real world samples Digging into the Data warehouse database and using the aggregated tables for reporting.
  • Troubleshooting issues with SCOM components and Agent Monitoring
  • Design and creating end-to-end monitoring of Services – Multi layered application design
  • Creating and Using Web Services to communicate with other Monitoring Targets
  • Creating and using your own XML connector to communicate with Helpdesk systems
  • Using Powershell to create scripts and get information about the SCOM environment
  • Update Alerts, Create Tasks and perform scripted intelligence in SCOM 1801

Audience Profile

This course is intended for Enterprise Systems Engineers, Administrators and System Integrators who need to implement Service Monitoring using System Center Operations Manager 2016 (SCOM).

At Course Completion

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Describe and understand the logical architecture of an SCOM infrastructure
Articulate the functions of the physical and logical components and services in an SCOM infrastructure
Install SCOM 1801 on Windows and SQL Server, Report Services and Web service.
Designing and implementing Failover to avoid single point of failure
Identify the new settings and features in 1801
Implement, configure and Link to a Microsoft Operations Suite Dashboard (OMS)
Defining resource pools
Integrate with Microsoft Azure and SMA
Understand and implement administrative workflows to make your daily work with SCOM easier.
Troubleshoot issues with SCOM components and Agent Monitoring
Design end-to-end monitoring of Services – Multi layered application design
Working with SCOM in conjunction with other System Center products
Defining and using different tools to Create Management Packs
Going through all Monitoring objects with real world samples, Rules, Monitors and Self Tuning Thresholds – and now with Baselining
Articulate the functions of the components and services in the System Center suite and Working with SCOM in conjunction with other System Center products
Deciding the best Authoring solution and using the correct type of monitoringobject
Digging into the Data warehouse database and using the aggregated tables for reporting.
Troubleshooting issues with SCOM components and Agent Monitoring
Find the bottlenecks in your implementation
Creating and using your own XML connector to communicate with external Helpdesk systems
Using PowerShell to create scripts and get information about the SCOM environment
Monitoring your Network and Create your own Network Monitoring Management Packs.
Using Visual Studio to create Management Packs
Using and Automate the New Maintenance mode feature
Fine tune your Alerts with the Tuning Wizard

Outline

Introduction to the SCOM Sizer

How is SCOM used / Purpose of SCOM
Architecture
Terminology
Services
Naming Conventions
Versioning and Good documentation behavior
Security

Service Account Requirements
Component Connectivity
Installation

System Requirements
Basic Installation
Security
Install and configure HA (High Availability)

HA for the Console, Web console, Report Services and PowerShell
SQL Always ON technology
Install The Console

Install and configure the Web Console e.g. for a large screen display

Install Report Services

Configure Reporting for SMTP, settings and controlling Rendering
Upgrading from a distributed Operations Manager 2007 R2 Management Group

Using SSL/Https internally between users and the report/web services

Management Group and Server Settings

Notification, using Notification with PowerShell scripts

Creating Subscribers and subscriptions

RMS Emulation – why we need it and controlling it with PowerShell

Agent Rollout, manually, automatically and the Auto Agent Assignment

Agents, Gateways and Certificate authentication

Use Resource Pools to control Management Server responsibility

Monitoring Unix/Linux Servers with SCOM 1801

User Interfaces, the new Widgets and presentation with SharePoint and Visio

Creating MAP View with locations

Reporting and the Data warehouse database, controlling the purging and logging

Using SQL Profiler to check the traffic to/from the SQL server

Creating own reports with Visual Studio

APM (Application Performance Management), find bottlenecks in .net applications

ACS (Audit Collector Services), a consolidated event auditor

Network Monitoring, Discovery rules, views and using advanced port monitoring

Management Packs, Creating with Visual Studio, Authoring tool , Visio and the console

Putting it all together, creating a 360 service, multi-level topology monitoring and creating own Service/Distributed Application monitoring

Monitoring  SCVMM with SCOM 1801

SCOM 1801 and Orchestrator - Interaction in both ways

 

SCOM 1801 and Service Manager, creating Incident, Task and Connectors

Non Microsoft Monitoring – Monitor anything - Check the coffee level

Management Packs

 

We are going through the different kind of objects contained in a Management Pack

Rules
Monitors
Attributes
Groups
Tasks
Views
Reports
SCOM Advanced – Management Servers
Introduction to the Communication in SCOM

Configuring and optimizing the Management servers and agents

Optimizing the database and data warehouse

Defining and managing Resource Pools

 

Integrate automatically configuration of agents AD Integration

Implement Intelligence in your Management Group with PowerShell Scripts
Monitoring Application/Services

Management Packs
Implement and document your Management Packs

Implement Change management on you Management Packs

Creating and Authoring own Management Packs

Individual Management Packs objects

Using Visual Studio to create Management Packs

Using Authoring Console to create Management Packs

Using Visio to Create Management Packs

User Interfaces
Presenting Dashboards

Creating Customize Dashboards

Create your own widgets

Use the Global Service Monitor

 

Reports

Connecting Operations Manager
Using an XML connector to communicate with SCOM
Using Web Services to communicate with SCOM
Connecting System Center with SCOM and the other way around
Trap it – with mails, snmp or files
Linux Monitoring

Installing Linux clients
Creating monitors and rules against Linux
Implementing Applications Server Monitoring
APM

Implementing APM
Server and Client Side Configuration
Network Monitoring

Scale and implement
Creating rules for your Devices and interfaces
Creating own SNMP Traps
ACS (Audit Collector Services), a consolidated event auditor

Install and configure ACS
Agentless Exception Monitoring

Collect and present your organizations exceptions

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:
• Experience with Windows Server 2012 R2/2016 Administration
• Basic understanding of Active Directory
• Basic understanding of Network communication

Its recommended that students have the following:
• An understanding of the System Center Suite is desirable, but not needed.
• Experience with earlier version of SCOM or other Monitoring Tools
• Virtualization Technologies: Hyper-V
• Basic Knowledge of PowerShell
• Knowledge of Cloud Topologies