Chapter 7. Configuring Service Models with Distributed Applications

One of the key benefits of OpsMgr is having the ability to bring all of the monitored components of an IT service together and model them into a single entity using the Distributed Application feature. With this capability you can easily transition from a server monitoring solution to a service monitoring solution, where you then get the full picture of what's affected within the context of the IT service when a particular alert fires.

In this chapter, we begin with an overview of distributed applications and then we discuss some of the predefined distributed application models that you get when you first deploy OpsMgr. We then switch gears and move into creating your first distributed ...

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