Systems Center Operations Manager Accelerator
Approximately 70% of IT budgets are spent maintaining existing systems, not on new technologies and services to advance the business. Headcount within most IT departments is not increasing and the demands placed upon IT continue to grow. Additionally, business critical processes are moving towards distributed Web Services and workflow, which adds significant management complexity for service providers. More than ever, IT service providers need to be able to do more with less. The Systems Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) Accelerator addresses the following challenges:
- Meeting the demands from business groups to show more value with the existing IT infrastructure through baselines, reporting and capturing regular performance metrics
- Compliance with corporate regulatory obligations through change auditing
- Ensuring the availability of critical IT services through health monitoring and alerts
The PointBridge Solution
The PointBridge OpsMgr Accelerator rapidly deploys a systems management infrastructure based on OpsMgr that meets an organization’s needs.
The PointBridge solution is a fixed-time, fixed-price engagement that produces six key deliverables:
1. Implementation of OpsMgr 2007 in a single-server configuration connected to a separate SQL 2005 database server
2. A detailed architecture document
3. Deployment of Health Monitor agents for up to 100 Windows 2003 servers, including all relevant Management Packs requested in the design session
4. Configuration of up to four automated reports
5. Configuration of email alerting for critical events per customer specification
6. Administrative training
The engagement typically spans two business weeks and delivers an actionable path forward.