Monitoring and Using Reports in System Center Essentials 2010

Overview/Description
System Center Essentials 2010 allows administrators to actively monitor all objects being managed, ensuring they are running correctly. If a failure occurs or a service is not working properly, they can immediately correct the issue by viewing the alerts that are generated by Essentials monitoring features. Essentials allows notifications to be setup to send alerts when an issue arises. The Authoring feature enables administrators to manage and configure management packs, which contain the monitoring settings for applications and servers, and allows administrators to setup monitoring for Web Applications and distributed applications in the network. To manage computers in the network more efficiently, reports can be run to view specific information about each computer and Essentials also supports the remote accessing of managed objects using Remote Assist and Remote Desktop to aid users or to correct issues that may have occurred. This course demonstrates how to use the monitoring and authoring features in Essentials, as well as how to use reporting and manage computers remotely.

Target Audience
Administrators who use Microsoft System Center Essentials 2010

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Monitoring and Using Reports in System Center Essentials 2010

identify how to perform key monitoring tasks

configure notifications for alerts

use maintenance mode

import a management pack

match management pack objects to their descriptions

use overrides to customize a management pack

customize how the objects being monitored are viewed

identify how to filter management pack object data

monitor a custom application

match additional monitoring features in Essentials with their functions

use the key monitoring tools in Essentials for given scenarios

configure a management pack for a given scenario

customize the view and filter monitored data

monitor a custom application and use other monitoring features

recognize how to produce reports in Essentials

save a report to a management pack

identify how to remotely access systems through Essentials

use Essentials 2010 reporting features in a given scenario

remotely access systems through Essentials in a given scenario