Pop Quiz
Pop Quiz: Monitoring Windows Server 2012 R2 Health
Applies to the "Manage and maintain a desktop infrastructure" objective of Exam 70-415.
Q: A company's IT administrator needs to monitor the health of several RDS servers on the network.
Which of the following would be the best choice for monitoring the health of several RDS servers?
- SCOM
- Performance Monitor
- Data Collector Sets
- Reliability Monitor
Answer is A. SCOM (Systems Center Operations Manager) would be the best choice for monitoring several RDS servers.
Quick Tip: Installing the Operations Manager agent on each server is required.
Reference:
Operations Manager Key Concepts
Bonus Question: What is the difference between pooled and personal virtual desktop collections? (The answer, of course, will be revealed next time!)
Answer to bonus question from last week: An Update Server added through the fabric workspace of SCVMM 2012 is also known as a WSUS server.
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