50242 - System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007: Certification Prep Course

After completing this course, students will be prepared to take the 70-400 exam.

Module 1: Configuring System Center Operations Manager 2007

Objectives:
• Configure notification
• Manage roles
• Configure System Center Operations Manager options
• Discover and deploy agents within a trusted Active Directory forest
• Discover and deploy agents to systems not using Active Directory

Lab : Use the Computer and Device Management Wizard
Lab : Implement Profiles and User Roles for Exchange Server
Lab : Configure Objects for Maintenance Mode

Module 2: Deploying and Configuring Management Packs

Objectives:
• Import a Management Pack
• Configure overrides
• Create a self-tuning threshold
• Migrate a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Management Pack to System Center Operations Manager 2007
• Configure diagnostics and recoveries for a rule or a monitor

Lab : Verify Conversion of MOM 2005 Management Packs to SCOM 2007
Lab : Create and Modify a Self-tuning Threshold Monitor

Module 3: Building and Deploying Custom Management Packs

Objectives:
• Configure security options
• Configure discovery for Management Packs
• Create monitors and rules
• Create a distributed application
• Create a synthetic transaction

Lab : Create Rules with Overrides for Specific Server Roles
Lab : Customize Management Packs by Creating Monitors and Related Tasks
Lab : Create Synthetic Transaction Monitors to Check Application Performance and Connectivity
Lab : Create a Relationship to Show a Dependency Between Applications

Module 4: Maintaining System Center Operations Manager

Objectives:
• Maintain a System Center Operations Manager infrastructure
• Create views
• Create tasks
• Fail over from Root Management Server (RMS)
• Backup and restore System Center Operations Manager
• Manage and maintain reports

Lab : Create a Dashboard View and a State View
Lab : Create a Scheduled Task Using PowerShell
Lab : Create a Console Task and Diagnostic Task
Lab : Configure Data Retention Settings

Module 5: Configuring Client Monitoring

Objectives:
• Configure Audit Collection Service (ACS)
• Configure Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM)
• Configure Collective Client Monitoring (CCM)
• Configure Business Critical Client Monitoring (BCCM)

Lab : Agentless Exception Monitoring—Create and Configure Filters
Lab : Configure Client Monitoring Wizard
Lab : Create BCCM Monitors for Windows Clients
Lab : Use ACS to Monitor Domain Controllers

Before attending this course, students must have:

• 6 months experience with System Center Operations Manager 2007 including configuring distributed applications, using PowerShell, and configuring and deploying Management Packs
• 1 year of experience with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005
• 1 year of experience with Active Directory and the Windows server system

The equivalent knowledge may be gained by completing the following course:

• Microsoft Instructor Led course 50028: Managing System Center Operations Manager 2007