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Monitoring with System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
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In the System Center Suite, the Operations Manager is responsible for monitoring. Add-on Management Packs let you monitor a full range of services running on your Microsoft network. If you connect Operations Manager with the Virtual Machine Manager, you can even analyze Hyper-V environments.
Monitoring AD
Monitoring Active Directory (AD) services is essential for a functional and trouble-free AD environment. Management Packs in System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (SCOM) offer a powerful means of monitoring and maintaining your AD configuration. Operations Manager helps you monitor AD and respond in good time to warnings and error messages to resolve problems before they lead to major failures of the Active Directory environment.
To monitor an AD environment with SCOM, you must import the appropriate Management Pack, adapt it to your own uses, then permanently save your changes by creating a new Management Pack.
Management Pack for AD Monitoring
The AD Management Pack provides monitoring capabilities for an Active Directory environment. You can use the AD Management Pack to detect events from the application and system log of Windows Event Viewer, as well as from numerous other protocols belonging to various AD components. In addition to the overall state of AD, including the replication connections, the Management Pack monitors Active Directory sites, as well as the performance of the AD environment.
The AD Management Pack monitoring functions monitor domain controllers (DCs) from the perspective of the client.
All relevant monitoring functions are designed so the domain controllers behave like Active Directory clients that consume AD services on your network. The Management Pack provides a set of predefined Operations Manager rules, monitoring scripts, and reports designed specifically to monitor the
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