PART III
Implementing monitoring

CHAPTER 6 Real-time monitoring with Operations Manager

CHAPTER 7 Proactive monitoring with Advisor

Private clouds don’t just need to be provisioned; they also need to be monitored to ensure that the services and applications meet the organization’s service-level agreement. Two kinds of monitoring are crucial to ensure the availability and performance of cloud solutions. First, you need real-time monitoring so that you can watch the health of your environment and be alerted when something goes wrong. Second, you need proactive monitoring to catch problems before they can cause interruption or poor performance for your business applications.

System Center provides you with both of these capabilities. System Center Operations Manager enables you to monitor in real time the operating systems, services, applications, devices, and operations of the systems and devices in your environment. System Center Advisor allows you to proactively monitor server workloads in your environment to identify potential misconfiguration issues that might cause you problems in the future.

This section of the book provides you with an introduction to Operations Manager Advisor, examines these System Center components in action, provides expert insights from Microsoft insiders, and lists additional resources where you can learn more.