To begin, take the first step

Which in our world is a lab.

Having gone over huge amounts of data yesterday, I get to expense almost 6 hours to research yesterday.

Moving right along, if you have not gone out to the Microsoft home page for System Center Operations Manager please do so. You will find tons of data on this site. Its an excellent starting point.

To begin lets go over the issues in production environment that started this little adventure. My company has a production environment is a web hosted app. Obviously we have a front end and a db back end with a few things tossed in here and there. Its always evolving depending on the clients needs. Currently we don't have a begining to end monitor solution. We have lots of little ones that overlap here and there. We also are having issues.

This project that I am working on started from a can it do a job to WOW it can do everything we need.

First STEP: LAB.

What I am starting out to do is:

1. Create a new OU with the users that are needed to do the work of OpsMgr. Slight word of advice, when create a new user group for OpsMgr I suggest you add the Domain Admins as well. Unlink MOM 2005, OpsMgr 2007 wont automatically allow for Domain Admins to have Admin access to the system. Clearly the choice is up to you.
2. Install the Operations DB and RMS on the same box
3. Install the Gateway Server in the domain that is not trusted which has our hosting servers.

So far I have completed the OU and users. As it goes with all IT positions we had a little fire today and I have been working on it to put it out.

Shall be back with more details.

-Boston Tech Guy