Solutions in this chapter:

• Planning Your MOM Topology

• Planning for Features and Configurations

• Planning for Users

• Security Requirements

• Disaster Recovery Planning

• Advanced Configurations

Introduction

Taking the time to plan your deployment of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 and architect a solution that meets the goals of your organization or your customer is critical to the success and speed of the deployment. In this chapter, we will start with a review of the key components that make up a MOM architecture, followed by an overview of the planning process where we will explore capacity planning, redundancy planning, and configuration planning. Once you have a grasp of the type of planning that is required and the information that is needed to make the appropriate decisions, we will look at some of the tools available to assist you with your planning. With the architectural planning piece behind you we will shift our focus to operational planning, where we will look at security requirements, including planning for users and delegated administration, as well as disaster recovery planning. We then will wrap things up with a look at the five Solution Accelerators, which can provide you with technical and prescriptive guidance with more advanced configurations. This chapter will help prepare you for Chapter 4, which focuses on performing the installation.

Planning Your MOM Topology

Planning your Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 deployment is not a difficult task, but is one that should be approached with an open mind and an inquisitive attitude. The goal of the...