"matches wildcard" in Ops Mgr 2007I have been in the sandbox today, playing with failover. In this scenario I had four machine, COOM01, root management server with SQL COOM02, management server CODC01, domain controller and DNS, also agent managed from operations manager COXP01, XP workstation for operations manager administrators I deployed a agent to the domain controller (CODC01) from COOM01 and assign CODC01 that management server. During [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Operations Manager 2007 Agent Failover
Posted: 29th April 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 20071
Links during April
Posted: 29th April 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, System Center Operations Manager 2007Some intresting links during April System Center Operations Manager 2007 Pricing and Licensing, finally some information, here A new version of Exchange Server Management Pack Configuration Wizard that will work with Ops Mgr and Exchange 2007, here HP StorageWorks Management Pack for SCOM 2007, download here What’s New? Why Upgrade to System Center Operations Manager [...]
Linux, Syslog and System Center Operations Manager 2007
Posted: 26th April 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005We all know that there is no pure Microsoft environment. There is for example often a old Linux box, and that box need to be monitored as well as everything else. If you answer “no, it dont”, why dont you shut down that box immediate? In this post I will show how to get syslog [...]
Management Pack Catalog
Posted: 25th April 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007If you look in the management pack catalog you will now find management packs for Operations Manager 2007 too. You will find the catalog here. Most of the management packs are unfortunately still only available through evaluation software package and the volume licensing webpage.
Active Directory integration in Operations Manager 2007
Posted: 11th April 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007Pete Zerger (MOM MVP) and I collaborated on a guide about Active Directory integration in System Center Operations Manager 2007. Operations Manager 2007 integration with Active Directory is designed to minimize cost and effort in Ops Mgr agent administration, by allowing an administrator to publish agent configuration details in the Active Directory domain partition related to desired Operations Manager 2007 [...]
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM)
Posted: 2nd April 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in System Center Operations Manager 2007Operations Manager client monitoring mode enables the administratorsto monitor operating systems and applications for error. Client monitoring configures clients to send error reports to an Operations Manager Management Server insted of Microsoft. With the reporting function client monitoring mode can then generate reports based on these errors. Error reports can be send from the Ops [...]
MOF, ITIL and System Center Operations Manager 2007
Posted: 1st April 2007 by Anders Bengtsson in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005, System Center Operations Manager 2007When a organization pass the stage from an IT department that is just a bunch of guys and to a business focused unit providing IT solutions for their business, then they will need some kind of framework and best practices. In general, frameworks for IT is all about managing your IT services to the same high level of [...]