Editorial Review:
This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007! System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007. Like its MOM 2005 predecessor, OpsMgr 2007 helps you implement operations management, but with a far different and more holistic approach from MOM 2005’s focus on individual servers. This book guides you through designing, deploying, and configuring OpsMgr 2007. You will find detailed information and hands-on experience on topics such as estimating database sizes and designing redundant OpsMgr configurations. You learn how to tackle challenges such as setting up ACS, establishing client monitoring, using and creating synthetic transactions and distributed applications, and developing management packs and reports. - Size your OpsMgr databases
- Architect for redundancy and performance
- Install or migrate to OpsMgr 2007
- Secure OpsMgr
- Back up OpsMgr components
- Understand how monitors and rules work
- Manage different aspects, including ACS, client monitoring, synthetic transactions, and distributed applications
- Extend OpsMgr
- Develop management packs and reports
CD-ROM includes: - Database sizing spreadsheet
- Utilities, management packs, and reports
- Microsoft’s best practices for rule and monitor targeting and PowerShell Cheat Sheet
- Live Links--more than 200 hypertext links and references to materials, connectors, sites, and newsgroups related to OpsMgr
Contents Introduction 1 Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts 1 Operations Management Basics 11 2 What’s New 63 3 Looking Inside OpsMgr 97 Part II Planning and Installation 4 Planning Your Operations Manager Deployment 137 5 Planning Complex Configurations 203 6 Installing Operations Manager 2007 233 7 Migrating to Operations Manager 2007 277 Part III Moving Toward Application-Centered Management 8 Configuring and Using Operations Manager 2007 303 9 Installing and Configuring Agents 369 10 Complex Configurations 425 11 Securing Operations Manager 2007 471 Part IV Administering Operations Manager 2007 12 Backup and Recovery 539 13 Administering Management Packs 593 14 Monitoring with Operations Manager 647 Part V Service-Oriented Monitoring 15 Monitoring Audit Collection Services 739 16 Client Monitoring 797 17 Monitoring Network Devices 845 18 Using Synthetic Transactions 903 19 Managing a Distributed Environment 949 Part VI Beyond Operations Manager 20 Automatically Adapting Your Environment 1005 21 Reading for the Service Provider: Remote Operations Manager 1047 22 Interoperability 1095 23 Developing Management Packs and Reports 1141 Part VII Appendixes A OpsMgr by Example: Configuring and Tuning Management Packs 1229 B Performance Counters 1261 C Registry Settings 1271 D Active Directory and Exchange 2003 Management Pack Parameters 1295 E Reference URLs 1305 F On the CD 1323 Index 1329
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Customer Reviews
Average Customer Rating: 
Great Book 2008-06-02
I have been working on a project at work for months now involving System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM) and I purchased this book in hopes that it would fill in some gaps from Microsoft's documentation. It has done so marvelously. This book has solved a lot of minor issues. It is clearly written, has good examples to follow and has a lot of information. I recommend anyone working with the software to pick up a copy (everyone on my project has)
The standard bearer for Operations Manager References 2008-05-26
This is the most comprehensive OpsMgr book on the market. This book contains more real world information than the Microsoft white papers and runs circles around the Mastering Operations Manager offering.
Operations Manager Unleashed offers excellent guidance for planning your deployment including database sizing tips. In addition topics such as deployment and operations are thoroughly covered. Insight on management pack tuning, step by step guides on alerting and some of the best advice on the ACS feature are included. You will have more than enough information at your fingertips to get the most out of your OpsMgr investment. Think of this book like the Pocket Consultant series that Microsoft has for Exchange, Windows etc: it's not meant to be read cover to cover, but will provide you with advice at the right time.
In short if you have already invested thousands of dollars in System Center Operations Manager, spend the extra $40 and get the best available guide for this product. (Strange that Microsoft Press doesn't have a admin companion for OpsMgr)
Thanks to Authors 2008-05-21
Really Really Really it was great book
You can learn everything
Book includes real world experiences,tips and trics
Absolutely positive
Thanks So Much Authors
Book Review: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed 2008-05-09
This book is REALLY big. And for the beginner to intermediate Operations Manager administrator, that is a good thing. Clearly this is the book by which all other Operations Manager 2007 books should be measured. I'd say this one compares quite favorably to the other option on the market
Unleashed is infrastructure focused, and delivers great process-related info for not only design, planning and implementation, but more common administrative scenarios than one can count - moving databases, changing accounts, tuning your environment - it's all in there. And while I wouldn't expect many to read this book cover to cover, I think you could reference it regularly in your daily life as an Opsgmr admin for a long time and never look at the same page twice.
From a planning perspective, I think the team did a good job overall providing providing some insight into the decision process when mapping out your Opsmgr infrastructure plan. The ACS chapter in particular had excellent guidance for getting ACS running, and then tweaking the ACS reports to your liking.
As a testament to the size of Operations Manager as a product, the authors make copius references to community sources for scripts and information (kudos to the team for recognizing the community effort). But you'll also find quite a bit of that community data on the very handy CD accompanying the book.
And already in the book, I can see many SP1 changes that didn't make this 1st version due to lead time in editing cycles at the publisher, which is totally necessary. To that end, a 2nd edition is probably in the works, which will likely include many new tricks from recent months and some yet to be discovered.
I think there is something for everybody in Operations Manager Unleashed, and I encourage all Operations Manager administrators to keep one on the shelf for a rainy day.
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Exellent publication !! 2008-04-28
The book is 1300 pages and I have not read it from cover to cover BUT it is more of a reference book for me. The book came with a lot of anticipation in the field and I feel that the book has met with the expectations. It has examples and details that I would expect of a reference book. If you don't know anything about SCOM 2007, it covers concepts and has a CD with other items such as capacity planning. Screen shots, installation shots, tables, external references, powershell exampls, and blog links. It covers a LOT of material
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