Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
The Operations Manager agent is a service that you deploy to computers and devices, usually
termed “managed objects.” You want to manage and monitor this service using Operations
Manager. The Operations Manager agent collects information from the managed object.
The information that it collects depends on the rules and monitors that are included in
the collection of management packs installed on the Operations Manager server. For ex-
ample, the System Center Management Pack for SQL Server management pack will compare
telemetry from the monitored instance of SQL Server against rules and thresholds defined
in the management pack. In the event that one of these rules or thresholds is breached, the
Operations Manager agent will transmit data to the Operations Manager management server,
triggering an Operations Manager alert.
There are four general methods that you can use to deploy the Operations Manager agent
to computers running Windows based operating systems:
Discovery Wizard
Part of the Operations Manager console. You can use this wizard
to deploy agents to computers running Windows, UNIX, or Linux operating systems
as shown in Figure 2-1. You can also use it to deploy agents to supported network
devices.
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FIGURE 2-1
Discover Windows computers
