Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005: Advanced Administration UK Classes & Lessons (Microsoft)

About this class

This course is designed for IT support staff who will be doing the day-to-day management of their MOM 2005 infrastructure. It will concentrate on best practise for handling management packs, covering updates, change management and creating them for in-house applications. It will explore the various ways of getting data into MOM via WMI objects and events, scripts and all the other providers. It will also cover long-term management of the System Center Data Warehouse and creating custom reports. The course will be delivered as an interactive lecture including many hands-on exercises, which guide the students through the day to day management of MOM, the creation of management packs, and the customisation of reports.

Contents of this class

A MOM overview

Management groups, management servers, managed computers, and management packs - definitions of MOM components
How MOM components fit together
The different MOM consoles
MOM security restrictions.

Managing Management Packs

The components that make up a management pack
An investigation of the AD and Exchange management packs
Customising a vendor-based management pack
Importing/Exporting MPs
Checking MP versions
MP2XML, MPDiff and MP Studio.

Creating Management Packs in Detail

Computer Attributes and Computer Groups
Rule groups, NT Event Log providers, Perfmon providers, WMI event providers, WMI numeric providers, application log providers.

Scripting MOM

The Script. Context object
Generating events, raising alerts and gathering performance/informational data via script
Getting data into MOM scripts via parameters
Scripting sythentic transactions.

The System Center Data Warehouse

How the data transfer and grooming jobs actually work
Setting the data retention times in the SCDW
Running reports, Creating custom reports with Visual Studio.

Appendix MOM and SNMP

Sending SNMP traps via MOM responses
Receiving SNMP input into MOM
Using the WMI SNMP provider to send selective SNMP traps.