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To be able to display a dashboard in SharePoint, you need to have installed the Operations
Manager SharePoint Web Part on the SharePoint server. A user that has administrative per-
missions on the SharePoint server must install the Operations Manager SharePoint Web Part.
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OPERATIONS MANAGER DASHBOARDS
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Thought experiment
Performance dashboards at Contoso
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ou want to provide application administrators with dashboards, published on your
organization's SharePoint server that allows them to view performance counter data
about services that you monitor in tabular format. With this information in mind,
answer the following questions:
1.
Which widget would you include in the dashboard to provide the appropriate
information?
2.
What steps must the SharePoint Administrator take before you can publish the
dashboard to SharePoint?
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You can use Operations Manager service level objectives (SLOs) to set availability and
performance benchmarks.
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You run service level tracking reports against SLOs to determine whether those avail-
ability and performance objectives have been met.
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Operations Manager includes a number of built in reports that allow you to view the
data collected by Operations Manager agents. Management packs contain additional
reports.
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Dashboards allow you to build “at-a-glance” summaries of important Operations Man-
ager information. Dashboards can be published to SharePoint.
Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of the information in this objective.
You can find the answers to these questions and explanations of why each answer choice is
correct or incorrect in the “Answers” section at the end of the chapter.
1.
You want to perform service level tracking to verify the availability of your organiza-
tion's Exchange 2013 mailbox servers. You want to measure the availability of the
