Chapter 16. Network Monitoring

In This Chapter

• Features and Capabilities

• Networking Monitoring Considerations

• About SNMP

• Using Run As Accounts

• Discovering Network Devices

• Monitoring Network Devices

• Real World Scenarios

• Fast Track

System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr) provides extended capabilities for network monitoring. Unlike its predecessor, Operations Manager 2007, which only offers simple “up” or “down” functionality, OpsMgr 2012 provides more advanced monitoring of your network devices. With OpsMgr 2012, you can get detailed port, interface, and peripheral monitoring of your network devices, as well as virtual local area networks (vLANs) and hot standby router protocol (HSRP) groups. OpsMgr 2012 now includes monitoring ...

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