Support WebCast: Microsoft Operations Manager SP1: Configuration and Operational Best Practices

Session Summary

This Support WebCast will talk about how to set up Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) SP1 to best meet your monitoring requirements. This session will also provide tips for MOM settings for grooming, agent manager settings, buffer settings, and communication settings for the best possible operational performance, and usage practicality. The topics will include an architectural overview, how to build a reliable MOM infrastructure using alert forwarding, multihoming, using multihoming for automatic database disaster recovery, auto failover for DCAMs, SQL Cluster database recovery, building a scalable MOM infrastructure, and the new and improved scaling limitations for MOM SP1. The discussion of management and maintenance will include information about database, event storms, management packs, operations and organizational policies, archive database setup, and maintenance. The final topics are reporting and miscellaneous tips for MOM SP1.

This is a Level 200 (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=gp;en-us;webcastlevels&sd=gn) session that was recorded March 25, 2003, and presented by Steve Adrien DeLuca and Glen Houghton. Steve Adrien DeLuca is a Program Manager responsible for developing performance tools. He has been working in the MOM development team as a performance engineer since the beginning of the MOM project two and one-half years ago, and wrote the "Performance and Sizing" white paper, and various Database Sizers that support the MOM product. Steve has written four books on database performance and administration for Microsoft Press and has received 13 patents for work in Capacity Planning and Performance. Steve also currently supports the database curriculum, and is on the database education advisory board at University of Washington extended education program. Glen Houghton has been at Microsoft for more than three years and is a QFE Engineer in the MOM Product group. Previously he was a Support Professional for Systems Management Server and MOM. He was also a Beta Engineer for MOM. Glen has more than 10 years experience in the computer industry and has been involved in supporting end users and also large-scale consulting for multimillion dollar projects.

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