The Capacity Planner Model Wizard guides you though the initial phase of creating a capacity model for Operations Manager 2007. On the Welcome page, you can start the Operations Manager Model Wizard.

You can view detailed descriptions about the options on any page of the wizard by pressing F1 while viewing the page in Capacity Planner.

To use the Operations Manager Model Wizard

  1. On the Welcome page of the Capacity Planner Model Wizard, ensure that System Center Operations Manager 2007 is shown under Capacity Models.

  2. Click Create a new Capacity Model.

  3. On the Management Group - Operations Manager page, click Add Management Group to open the New Management Group dialog and add main site, which is a management group, and specify the number of locally agent-managed devices that belong to the site. You can also indicate whether a SAN is used by the site to store data.

    1. In the New Management Group dialog, under Managed Device Profiles, you can click Show Counts or Show Percentages to specify the number of clients by number or percentage. You can also choose whether Use Business Critical Monitoring for Windows Desktops is enabled to monitor desktop computers in a manner that is similar to servers to ensure health and availability.
    2. Click OK to close the New Management Group dialog.
    3. On the Management Group - Operations Manager page click Customize Usage Profiles to customize usage profiles for servers and clients, to define how much information is typically sent from all agent-managed-computers in the main site, and how much information is stored in the Operations Manager database.
    4. Click Next.

  4. On the Remote Sites - Operations Manager page, click Add Remote Site Profile to add remote sites and information about the number of remote sites and the number of clients in the remote sites to create a site profile. All remote sites are members of the Management Group, but are remotely located. You can also specify whether the remote sites are connected to the main site by a gateway.

    1. On the New Remote Site Profile dialog, under Managed Device Profiles, you can click Show Counts or Show Percentages to specify the number of clients by number or percentage that are monitored by various Management Packs in the remote site. You can also choose whether Use Business Critical Monitoring for Windows Desktops is enabled to monitor desktop computers in a manner that is similar to servers to ensure health and availability.
    2. Click OK to close the New Remote Site Profile dialog.
    3. On the Remote Sites - Operations Manager page, click Customize Usage Profiles to customize usage profiles for servers and clients, to define how much information is typically sent from all agent-managed-computers in the main site, and how much information is stored in the Operations Manager database.
    4. Click Next.

  5. On the Networks - Operations Manager page, specify the type of network that connects servers in the main site to remote sites, and then click Next.

  6. On the Hardware - Operations Manager page, select the type of computer hardware available for database and non-database servers and for servers with various roles, and then click Next.

  7. On the Application- Operations Manager page, specify how Operations Manager servers and their roles are deployed.

  8. Review the information that you have entered in the wizard on the Model Summary - Operations Manager page. If necessary, you can click Back until you get to any of the previous pages in the wizard to make necessary changes.

  9. Click Finish to proceed to the Model Editor.

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