Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Requirements and considerations

There are a number of things that you'll need to consider before you dive in to monitor your network devices, such as resource pool design, firewall rules to be configured, management packs to be deployed, and user role requirements.

Resource pools

In the Deploying UNIX/Linux agents section of Chapter 4, Deploying Agents we showed you how to create a resource pool for cross-platform monitoring. You'll need to create additional resource pools when designing a network monitoring architecture for your OpsMgr environments, to ensure optimal performance and scalability.

For example, if you have a large number of network devices to be monitored, it's recommended that you assign a resource pool that includes management or ...