In it you will find comprehensive information about how to develop your own reports and management package for your MOM environment as well as practical real-world examples, based on the experience of MOTHER. 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 package management Working with rules and tune them Managing various aspects of your environment, including Windows operating systems, directory services, Exchange email, and SQL Server Extend MOM using connectors and third-party package management Developing management packages, reports, and scripts Prepare for the next version of Operations Manager CD? ROM included Microsoft? S MOM 2005 Resource Kit and MOM 2005 Sizer MOM Agent Monitor Management packages and scripts written or adapted for this book Live Links? More than 100 hypertext links (clickable) and references to materials and sites related to Operations Manager Content About the Author xxi Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction 1 Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts Chapter 1 Operations Management Basics 7 Chapter 2 What? 41 S New 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 MOM Operator Chapter 12 Backup and Recovery 365 Chapter 13 Management Packs 395 Operator 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 Appendix Internal 865 Appendix A MOTHER 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