System Center 2016 – Operations Manager and Operations Management Suite (OMS) 101 Series

Hi Everyone,

Back in 2010, I authored a document called Operations Manager 101 for 2007 R2. My esteemed colleague and friend Mr. Kevin Holman was kind enough to post it on his blog in order to make it easily retrievable for those that could use it.

Over time, I have received feedback on this being a useful guide for folks getting started with System Center Operations Manager. Fortunately, most of it was applicable and translated without much issue into 2012 and 2016, but with 2016 being released, I took the opportunity to update it and turn it into a web blog series.

Also, if you have System Center Operations Manager, it makes a lot of sense to check out Operations Management Suite (OMS) as these 2 products are complimentary and better together, which you can read more about at this post - https://aka.ms/together

Please find Below the following posts and look out for new ones here.

NOTE: Any comments and feedback greatly appreciated if you find these posts helpful or have any corrections / suggestions.  Cheers, Antoni

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT SUITE 101

Operations Management Suite and System Center Operations Manager – Better Together

Operations Management Suite (Azure Log Analytics) 101 - Log Analytics Queries 101

Operations Management Suite (Azure Log Analytics) 101 - Links and Resources

Operations Management Suite (Azure Log Analytics) 101 - Create an OMS Workspace and Add agents to it.

SYSTEM CENTER 2016 – OPERATIONS MANAGER 101

Operations Manager 101 – Where do I see Views / monitoring / Alerts etc for my technology?

Operations Manager 101 – Something Shows as Red / Critical or Warning / Yellow in a State View. How do I check why this is?

Operations Manager 101 – How do I get more detail on what is in my Technology's Management Pack?

Operations Manager 101 – How do I disable or tune something in Operations Manager?

Operations Manager 101 – How do I create a rule to be alerted on a scenario such as a user being added to domain admins?

Operations Manager 101 – How do I create a Subscription which will notify when a given alert occurs.

Operations Manager 101 – How do I know if Operations Manager is collecting a specific performance counter?

Operations Manager 101 – How do I create a rule to collect performance data that is not already collected in a management pack, and show it in the graphs in Operations Manager?

Operations Manager 101 – How do I create a performance monitor to monitor if a performance counter sample exceeds a threshold?

Operations Manager 101 – How do I run a report for a performance counter that Operations Manager is collecting?

Operations Manager 101 – How Do I Generate a Top 'n' Performance Report?

Operations Manager 101 – How do I know what parameters are available in an event to monitor off?

Operations Manager 101 – Create an Event Collection Rule for Monitoring Server Restarts

Operations Manager 101 – Links and Resources - COMING SOON

Operations Manager 101 – Appendix – General SCOM Guidance -COMING SOON