TABLE OF CONTENTS Understanding Your Environment
Identifying Requirements
Selecting a Version of Microsoft Operations Manager
Truly understanding the environment you are about to monitor with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 is essential to any successful planning strategy you undertake. This should be done prior to deploying and configuring the solution. Not only collecting the right information with regards to the true requirements of your organization but choosing the right version of the product to meet your needs can be the difference between success and failure of your project in the long term. In this chapter we will start with a look at the kind of information you should be collecting about your environment, how this information can be used to help you assess what your true monitoring requirements are, we will take a look at some of the tools and documentation available to help you collect the right data, as well as walking through how you select the right version of MOM to fit your needs. Once you have a grasp of the extent of planning that is required for your project and the information that is needed to make the right decisions, we will look at some of the tools available to assist you in the planning stage. This chapter will help prepare you for Chapter 3, which focuses on planning and deployment.
Understanding your environment in preparation for planning a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 deployment is a critical exercise that you must undertake before...
