Operations Manager 2007 Deployment, Installation and Advanced Service Monitoring Training

Prerequisites
It is expected that students who attend the course meet the following prerequisites:
· A+ certification, or equivalent knowledge
· Network+ certification, or equivalent knowledge
· MCSA certification, or equivalent knowledge

Course Materials
The student kit includes two comprehensive workbooks which include lab material and other necessary materials for the class.

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams
No Microsoft Certified Professional Exams are associated with this course currently. The overall aim of this course is to aid students to deploy and administer Operations Manager 2007 in real world environments.

Course Outline
This is the most complete System Center Operations Manager 2007 training course available in the UK. The course has been designed and developed by Dilgenter using extensive knowledge and experience of many real world deployments since the launch of Operations Manager in 2007.

The course is a mix of in-depth instructor led training and scenario based hands-on labs to help students understand the key concepts being taught. Students are actively encouraged to discuss concepts and how they might apply to real world situations. The course in delivered by certified Microsoft Trainer John Rakowski of Dilgenter. John has worked on behalf of Microsoft on numerous high profile Operations Manager deployments and is a proven and accomplished consultant and trainer in this area.

The first part (2 days) concentrates on Operations Manager 2007 Deployment and Configuration. The aim here to enable you to understand and position the need for Operations Manager 2007 within your organisation and to make sure that the core elements are deployed and configured properly.

Day 1

¨ The evolvement of need for Operations Manager 2007.
¨ Positioning scenarios for Operations Manager 2007 (Why, Where and how does it fit?)
¨ Core Components in detail
¨ Key Accounts and Services
¨ Enterprise Security Reporting and Compliancy overview
¨ Scenario based Architecture Planning
¨ Operations Manager 2007 installation
¨ MOM 2005 migration strategies.
¨ Service Definition Model l ing

Day 2

This day focuses on the installation of core management packs (rules), tuning best practices and alert notification

¨ Hardware Monitoring
¨ Microsoft Base Operating System Monitoring
¨ Active Directory Monitoring
¨ Exchange Monitoring
¨ SQL Monitoring
¨ Tuning best practices
¨ Notification

Part 2 (2 days) builds on the key concepts of deployment and core monitoring taught in part 1 and looks to take this further by showing how we can add context to monitoring resulting in representative environment service monitoring:

Day 3

¨ Operations Manager 2007 project management considerations
¨ Line Of Business Service modelling
¨ Reporting
¨ Management Pack Components
¨ Management Pack Templates
¨ Custom Management Pack creation
¨ Self Tuning Thresholds
¨ Diagnostics and Recovery
¨ Management Packs and Change Management

Day 4

This day deals with advanced production monitoring scenarios; particularly the monitoring of non Microsoft technologies, network devices, advanced Line of Business design and finishes with backup and disaster recovery concepts:

¨ Linux, Solaris, Cisco and VMware Virtual Center Monitoring
¨ VMware Monitoring
¨ Oracle Monitoring
¨ Blackberry Monitoring
¨ Advanced Line of Business Design
¨ Backup and disaster recovery

Part 3 (1 day) is an opportunity to put into practice the knowledge you have learnt in parts 1 and 2 with the use of scenario based case studies.

Day 5

¨ Review from a Project Management perspective
¨ Review of architecture design and scenario based case study
¨ Management pack review and scenario based case study
¨ Service monitoring review and scenario based case study
¨ Non Microsoft services and scenario based case study
¨ Free time to revisit labs and ask questions