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Overview

This three-day course teaches delegates how to manage system infrastructure using Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM). The course covers planning, installing and configuring MOM 2005.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

• A+ certification, or equivalent knowledge.
• Network+ certification, or equivalent knowledge.
• MCSA certification, or equivalent knowledge.

Delegates will learn how to

Outline

Module 1: Plan a MOM Infrastructure

This module explains how to plan for business requirements, determine the appropriate number of MOM servers, and determine the server locations.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Identify what needs to be monitored
• Determine how collected information will be used
• Determine server location
• Plan for server availability

Module 2: Install MOM

This module explains how to create the needed accounts and run the MOM installation wizard.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Create the MOM Action account
• Create the DAS account
• Assign necessary user rights
• Select the MOM options to be installed
• Specify the MOM database location
• Specify the management group name
• Specify the user accounts
• Verify Active Directory environment (Active Directory domains that trust each other)
• Confirm participation in Microsoft’s MOM error reporting program
• Verify installed and running services
• Verify group accounts
• Verify folder structure
• Verify the setup log (?)
• Verify connectivity to the MOM database (by opening the Administrator Console)

Module 3: Configure the MOM Management Group

This module explains how to plan and create the MOM management group.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Configure discovery
• Configure agent install
• Configure responses
• Configure temporary storage
• Configure rule change polling
• Configure heartbeat checking
• Configure automatic management
• Configure agent heartbeat
• Configure responses
• Configure temporary storage
• Configure service monitoring
• Configure security
• Configure buffering
• Configure communications
• Configure event collection

Module 4: Install Agents

This module explains how to install and use MOM agents to monitor various services.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Configure MOM agents
• Configure managed servers
• Create agent-less servers

Module 5: Manage MOM Managed Servers

This module explains how to manage rules, alerts, and resolve configuration issues.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• View events
• Modify existing rules
• Create new rules
• View alerts
• Resolve alerts
• Set the alert resolution state
• Modify existing rules
• Create new rules
• Create a rule group
• Use the Web console

Module 6: Managing Collected Data

This module explains how to manage collected data by using the reporting console, predefined reports, and the web console.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Identify necessary hardware requirements
• Identify necessary software requirements
• Identify the available predefined reports
• View reports
• Provide access to reports through a Web interface.

Module 7: Configure Multiple Management Servers

This module explains how to configure multiple management servers to scale your management solution across the organization.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Install multi-homed agents
• Configure alert forwarding
• Implement load balancing and redundancy
• Groom a database

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