Deploy end-to-end monitoring

End-to-end monitoring involves being able to monitor all aspects of a private cloud deployment, from the application running on a monitored server through to the functionality of network devices. To deploy end-to-end monitoring, you need to deploy the Operations Manager agent to the computers or virtual machines that you want to monitor. You can also configure Operations Manager to manage network devices. You enhance the functionality of Operations Manager by importing management packs.

This section covers the following topics:

  Deploying Operations Manager agents

  Discovering network devices

  Monitoring network devices

  Using management packs

Summary

• You can deploy the Operations Manager agent to computers that are members of a trusted Active Directory domain using the Discovery Wizard. You can also manually install the agent, or include it in an operating system image.
• You can deploy the Operations Manager agent to supported versions of UNIX and Linux using the Discovery Wizard, or by manually installing the agent.
• When manually installing the agent, or including it in an image, you’ll need to configure agent authorization.
• You can use Operations Manager to manage network devices that support the SNMP v1, v2, or v3 protocols.
• Management packs allow you to enhance the functionality of Operations Manager.
• You can only import a management pack if the management pack dependencies are already installed.
• You can only remove a management pack if no other management packs exist, that have the management pack you want to remove as a dependency.