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Case Study: 3
Fabrikam, Inc
Overview
Fabrikam, Inc. is a resale company that has 3,000 employees.
The company has a main office and a branch office. The main office is located in London.
The branch office is located in Montreal. The offices connect to each other by using a WAN
link. Each office connects directly to the Internet.
Existing Environment
Active Directory
The network contains an Active Directory forest named fabrikam.com. The forest contains a
single domain. All servers run Windows Server 2012 R2.
The main office contains two domain controllers named LON-DC1 and LON-DC2. The
branch office contains two domain controllers named MON-DC1 and MON-DC2. Each
office is configured as an Active Directory site. The site in London uses an IP address space
of 192.168.0.0/17. The site in Montreal uses an IP address space of 192168.128.0/17.
System Center 2012 R2 Infrastructure
Fabrikam has a System Center 2012 R2 infrastructure. The infrastructure is configured as
shown in the following table.
LON-OM1, LON-OM2, and MON-GW1 are in the same management group. LON-OM1 and
LON-OM2 have Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) installed.
LON-VMM1 is configured for distributed key management.
The Microsoft Monitoring Agent is installed on 20 servers in the London office and 15
servers in the Montreal office. The servers in the London office are configured to use LONOM1 as a management server. The servers in the Montreal office are configured to use
MON-GW1 as a management server.
Operations Manager is used for server and application monitoring.
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) is installed on a server named LON-WSUS1.
Applications
You have an application named App1 that is an order tracing application. App1 is written in
unmanaged code.
Customers purchase products on the Fabrikam web site by using a web application named
App2. App2 requires that users be authenticated. The check-out process for purchases has
multiple steps.
You have an application named App3 that is a three-tier accounting application. App3
currently runs on physical servers.
Incident Management
Users enter incidents in Service Manager. When an incident is created, an incident event
workflow is triggered to gather network information.
Requirements
Planned Changes
Fabrikam plans to implement the following changes:
• Deploy App3 as a VMM service named Service3
• Monitor network devices by using Operations Manager.
• Create Operations Manager reports by using Report Builder.
• Replace App1 with a new Microsoft .NET Framework application.
• Provide users with the ability to select an impact value of All computers for an
incident
• Modify the incident event workflow to be triggered when an incident is
modified or created.
Technical Requirements
Fabrikam must meet the following technical requirements:
• In the London office, discover only network devices that contain Vendor1 or
Vendor2 in their description.
• Monitor the availability of App2 from locations in Europe, North America,
and Asia.
• Use VMM to manage updates to the virtualization infrastructure.
• Be able to view App1 performance monitoring event details.
• Implement Operations Manager reporting.
• Be able to view Service3 availability.
• Back up the VMM encryption key.
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You need to recommend a tool to view the performance monitoring results of App1.
What should you recommend?
A.
The Performance Monitor Wizard
B.
The Operations Manager web console
C.
PerfView
D.
Visual Studio Authoring Extensions