Microsoft® System Center 2012 Unleashed

Summary

Operations Manager provides the best approach to monitoring Microsoft-based infrastructure. By leveraging the core management packs, Operations Manager can provide key insight into the environment, thus eliminating guesswork and aiding troubleshooting efforts, creating repeatable responses to known issues, and creating a central company knowledge base.

Operations Manager requires active involvement by way of administration. Alerts should be mitigated or disabled if not actionable. In an ideal scenario, responsibilities within Operations Manager will be delegated; for example, all SQL alerts will be resolved or overridden by the DBA team. Custom management packs are used in one-off scenarios, with distributed applications created to monitor ...