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This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft Operations Manager 2005!

Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed provides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. MOM is a tool that helps implement operations management, but it is not a piece of software that you can simply install and instantly have working.

This book provides reference material that will guide you through the steps to design, deploy, and configure MOM within your environment. You learn how to tune your MOM environment and tackle common challenges, such as managing your Microsoft operating systems, directory services, messaging platforms, and databases. Inside you will find comprehensive information on how to develop your own reports and management packs for your MOM environment as well as practical real-world examples, based on hands-on MOM experience.

· Plan your MOM deployment

· Architect MOM for performance, redundancy, and security

· Install or upgrade to MOM 2005

· Back up important MOM components

· Implement, troubleshoot, deploy, and manage management packs

· Work with rules and tune them

· Manage different aspects of your environment, including the Windows operating system, directory services, Exchange email, and SQL Server

· Extend MOM using connectors and third-party management packs

· Develop management packs, reports, and scripts

· Prepare for the next version of Operations Manager

CD?ROM includes

· Microsoft?s MOM 2005 Resource Kit and MOM 2005 Sizer

· MOM Agent Monitor

· Management packs and scripts written or customized for this book

· Live Links?more than 100 (clickable) hypertext links and references to materials and sites related to Operations Manager

Contents

About the Authors xxi

Acknowledgments xxiii

Introduction 1

Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts

Chapter 1 Operations Management Basics 7

Chapter 2 What?s New 41

Chapter 3 How Does It Work? 57

Part II Planning and Installation

Chapter 4 Planning Your MOM Deployment 99

Chapter 5 Planning Complex Configurations 151

Chapter 6 Installing MOM 2005 173

Chapter 7 Upgrading to MOM 2005 211

Part III Deploying MOM

Chapter 8 Post-Installation Tasks 237

Chapter 9 Installing and Configuring Agents 267

Chapter 10 Complex and High Performance Configurations 297

Chapter 11 Securing MOM 329

Part IV Administering MOM

Chapter 12 Backup and Recovery 365

Chapter 13 Administering Management Packs 395

Chapter 14 Monitoring with MOM 423

Part V Managing with MOM

Chapter 15 Managing the Operating System 487

Chapter 16 Managing Directory Services 527

Chapter 17 Managing Microsoft Messaging 565

Chapter 18 Database Management 595

Part VI Moving Beyond MOM 2005

Chapter 19 Interoperability 625

Chapter 20 Developing Management Packs 661

Chapter 21 Using and Developing Reports 719

Chapter 22 Using and Developing Scripts 777

Chapter 23 Touring Operations Manager 2007 825

Part VII Appendixes

Appendix A MOM Internals 865

Appendix B Registry Settings 887

Appendix C Performance Counters 895

Appendix D Database Views 901

Appendix E Reference URLs 907

Appendix F On the CD 917

Index 919

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Should be required reading for anyone managing with MOM 2005

This is the book that bridges the gaps between product documentation, how the product works and how to use the product in a real world deployment.

As an avid MOM administrator, this is one of the rare books that is like having an experienced consultant with you to answer questions. MOM can be a complicated tool. Often people will be frustrated with attempting to deploy and manage using MOM. I highly recommend reading this book prior to deployment. The $60.00 price tag is nothing when compared to the hours you will spend tuning and attempting to understand MOM without it.

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Great book. Really goes into detail. If you've read Essential Microsoft Operations Manager, you'll certainly be pleased with how this book expands on these concepts.

offers top level and fine grained control

The complexity of Microsoft Operations Manager is attested to by the sheer bulk of this book. Some readers must surely wonder why any text on any computer program can be so hefty? But to a large extent, MOM's complexity is a consequence of the complexity of systems administration of the Microsoft operating systems and the ancillary packages deployed on top of these, like SQL Server and Exchange. At tremendous effort, Microsoft has built up an entire ecosystem of packages and operating systems. And there are many books devoted to each component.

But MOM's remit is to offer an integrated top level, and yet fine-grained approach, to managing the entire offering. Typically, the reader of this book will be a sysadmin of one, and in fact usually several, corporate computers. If you just have a personal computer running a Microsoft operating system, you are unlikely to need MOM.

Readers from a unix background might recognise an analogy between MOM and IBM's SMIT. The latter was a GUI tool that ran on AIX (IBM's version of unix), and greatly eased the managing of the often intricate AIX commands. But SMIT only really dealt with running the operating system. MOM also offers control of those above-mentioned sundry packages atop the operating system. So MOM is far more complicated.

A quick measure of MOM's complexity is given in Chapter 14. Where MOM's intelligence is embedded in its rule sets. With the default rule set having over 5000 rules, that pertain to what is recommended (or not) for the platforms and applications. Strewth! Happy reading. :)

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