Chapter 1. Architecting System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Introducing Operations Manager roles
  • Understanding the business and its requirements
  • Designing for high availability
  • Sizing the environment

Introduction

System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (SCOM) can be a very in-depth monitoring solution owing to its ability to gain an insight of various areas of an infrastructure. SCOM has the ability to start helping you understand your environment from the physical hardware of your network switches, SANs, and physical servers right through to the operating systems, whether they be Unix, Linux, or Windows operating systems, and the applications running either within your data centers or externally ...

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