Pilot Phase

The goal of the pilot phase is to roll out the production Operations Manager 2012 infrastructure and deploy a subset of agents and sites in a limited production environment. This allows the functionality to be tested in the production environment and the impacts to servers assessed. Some key issues to assess include the following:

• Alert and notification noise

• Impact of agents on managed computers

• Performance of OpsMgr servers

• Database growth

Evaluating these and other metrics ensures that the Operations Manager infrastructure is performing as expected during the design and planning sessions.

The major tasks for the pilot phase include the following:

• Deploy production Operations Manager infrastructure

• Configure Operations ...

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