Getting SCOM operational is one thing; actually figuring out how to use it is quite another. A very different experience from any of the other System Center solutions, getting started with SCOM usually requires a few key lessons in how SCOM targets and monitors the objects in a datacenter. In this course, Monitoring Windows Server 2016 with System Center 2016 – Operations Manager (SCOM), you’ll start with the same SCOM infrastructure that was built in the last “installing” course in this learning path, as well as the same example RDS infrastructure as your target for monitoring. First, you’ll learn how to install a few of Microsoft’s downloadable management packs, and then tune them using overrides to better match which behaviors you’re looking for. Next, you’ll discover how to create a few custom views and dashboards to visualize the data your SCOM agents are now gathering. Finally, you’ll explore how to create some custom rules and monitors of your own, to gain insight into behaviors that aren’t part of someone else’s Management Pack. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the necessary knowledge to start building your own environment specific Distributed Applications for a single-glimpse view of the health of your services.
Author Name: Greg Shields
Author Description:
Greg Shields is Sr. Director of IT Ops Skills at Pluralsight and formerly Principal Author Evangelist. Reach him on Twitter @ConcentratdGreg.

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  2mins
• Introduction
  5mins
• Locate and Import Management Packs
  24mins
• Tune Management Packs and Configure Overrides
  41mins
• Customize Views and Dashboards
  54mins
• Configure Service Level Tracking
  17mins
• Configure Alerts, Subscriptions, and Knowledge
  32mins
• Customize Rules and Monitors
  56mins
• Understand and Configure Distributed Applications
  31mins