Course: MS2287 Managing Your Infrastructure Using Microsoft Operations Manager 2005

Before attending this course, students must have:

• CompTIA A+ certification or equivalent knowledge
 
• CompTIA Network+ certification or equivalent knowledge
 

And either:

• Completed Course MS2208, Upgrading Your Skills from Microsoft Windows NT to Microsoft WindowsServer 2003
 

Or, completed all of the following courses:

• Course MS2274, Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
 
• Course MS2275, Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment
 

This course will help the student prepare for the following Microsoft Certified Professional exam:

• Exam 70-210,Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
 
• Exam 70-270,Installing, Configuring, and Administering Microsoft Windows XP Professional

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.

Lessons

• Determine the business requirements for a MOM deployment
• Collect information about the current infrastructure
• Determine what services need to be monitored
• Determine the number of managed servers
• Determine the number of agent-less managed servers
• Determine the number of required management servers
• Determine the number of management groups.
• Determine the location of management servers
• Determine the location for the SQL database
• Determine which management server will be the reporting server.

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.

Lessons

• Create necessary user accounts
• Run the MOM 2005 Setup Wizard to install MOM
• Verify MOM Installation

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.

Lessons

• Configure the management server
• Configure agents
• Import management packs
• Create additional computer groups (if necessary)
• Create computer attributes

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.

Lessons

• Discover computers
• Configure computer discovery rules
• Determine whether a discovered computer will be managed or unmanaged
• Create managed servers
• Install agents
• Designate a server as agentless

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.

Lessons

• View computer states
• Take action on events
• Take action on alerts
• Take action on performance data
• Managing rules
• Troubleshoot and resolve configuration issues.
• Determine which management server will be the reporting server.

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.

Lessons

• Install the Reporting console
• Generate predefined reports
• Use the Reporting console to view reports
• Use the Web console to view reports
• Analyze reports to identify specific problems.

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.

Lessons

• Install additional MOM management servers
• Configure MOM for a multiple domain environment
• Maintain a MOM database
• Back up and restore a database

After completing this module, students will be able to:

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