Optional Configuration

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2

You can configure the Operations Manager Management Pack for your environment. For instance, to reduce network traffic, you can override the rules that collect performance data.

The following table lists optional configurations for the Operations Manager Management Pack and specifies where you can find additional information about each option.

Configuration Option Additional Information

Change the default settings by overriding rules.

See How to Monitor Using Overrides.

Disable performance data, warnings, and events that you do not want to receive. To reduce network traffic, you can disable the rules that collect warnings, data, and noncritical events in environments such as the following:

  • Deployments in a wide area network with slow links

  • Deployments across satellite links

  • Deployments involving large branch offices

  • Deployments in which alerts are forwarded to a global network operations center

See the section in this guide titled Disable Performance Data.

Configure monitoring of connected management groups.

See the section in this guide titled Configure a Connected Management Group.

Enable health rollup from the Local Health Service to the Health Service Watcher for monitoring performance, configuration, and security.

See the section in this guide titled Enable Monitors for the Local Health Service.

Enable recovery tasks

See the section in this guide titled Enable Recoveries.