Using the Administration Workspace in Operations Manager

You can connect management groups to enable the forwarding of alerts and other monitoring data from a connected management group to the local management group. Tasks can be initiated from a local management group to run on managed objects of a connected management group.

Use Connected Management Groups in the Administration workspace to connect a management group or to edit the properties of a connected management group.

For more information, see Connecting Management Groups in Operations Manager.

You can use Device Management in the Administration workspace to perform configuration of specific management servers, agent-managed computers, agentless-managed computers, UNIX servers, and Linux servers. The following table summarizes the uses of the items in Device Management and provides links to more detailed information.

When you select Management Packs in the Administration workspace, you see a list of all management packs imported into your management group. When you right-click an individual management pack in the results pane, you can view its properties, delete it, or export any customizations to another management group. You can use links in the tasks pane to create, import, and download management packs.

For more information, see Using Management Packs.

You can use Network Management in the Administration workspace to discover network devices and managed discovered network devices. The following table summarizes the uses of the items in Network Management and provides links to more detailed information.

Notifications generate messages or run commands automatically when an alert is raised on a monitored system. By default, notifications for alerts are not configured. For Operations Manager users to be notified immediately when an alert is generated, you need to configure a channel for notifications, add subscribers, and then create a notification.

In Notifications in the Administration workspace, you can create channels, subscribers, subscriptions, and modify the channels, subscribers, and subscriptions that you create. For more information, see Subscribing to Alert Notifications.

Product connectors are used to synchronize Operations Manager data with other management systems such as those that monitor non-Windows computers or create trouble-tickets. Product connectors can integrate a deployment of Operations Manager into another management platform or connect other management systems into a full Operations Manager management solution. Any product connectors that you integrate with Operations Manager will be displayed in this section of the Administration workspace.

When you install Operations Manager, two internal product connectors are installed. These are used by Operations Manager.

For more information, see Connecting Operations Manager With Other Management Systems.

You can use Run As Configuration in the Administration workspace to manage Run As accounts and profiles. The following table summarizes the uses of the items in Run As Configuration and provides links to more detailed information.

In Operations Manager, operations such as resolving alerts, running tasks, overriding monitors, viewing alerts, viewing events, and so on have been grouped into user roles, with each user role representing a particular job function. Role-based security allows you to limit privileges that users have for various aspects of Operations Manager. In Security in the Administration workspace, you can add and remove users to specific user roles. You can also modify the properties of user roles that you create.

For more information, see Implementing User Roles.

The following table summarizes the settings you can manage in Settings in the Administration workspace.