January 2009 - Posts
SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1 - System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management Pack - 1-2009
The System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management (SCVMM2k8) Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 (SCOM2k7) is now available. This Management Pack, which provides Monitoring, Alerting and Performance Data Reporting for SCVMM2k8 allows the required control needed by anyone using Virtualization on a large scale. System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 Management Pack - 1-2009...
SC Operations Manager 2007 - The Basics of Health Explorer
SC OM2k7 offers a host of new capabilities in relation to Operations Management. One of the foundational changes is the introduction of a capability termed 'Health Explorer'. Health Explorer provides a single interface to see the Health of various Operating System, Application Services and Hardware Components combined in a natural state. The interesting part about Health Explorer is the the...
SC Operations Manager 2007 - The Basics of Deploying the Agent
We have a number of improved methods for deploying the SC OM2k7 Agent (Agent Managed Agent) when contrasted with Deploying the Agent in MOM2k5 SP1. In the following Screen Captures I will offer one method and comments specific to many of the new options offered along the way. <Click the Image to Enlarge in a Color Window> I begin this process by selecting the 'Administration Pane' and...
SC Operations Manager - Resolving the 'SQL Server Service Broker' Critical Error Alert on SCOM2k7 Root Management Server
<Click Image to Enlarge in a Separate Color Window at High Resolution> Lynn Lunik Chief Security Architect IT Pro Secure Corporation blog@itprosecure.com Blog Tags: Amazon Web Services , Forefront Client Security , Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010 , Hyper-V , Virtual PC 2007 , SCOM2k7 , SQL2k8 , Windows 7 , Windows 2008 , Exchange 2007 , Exchange 2010 , Failover Clustering – ITPS , Failover...
SC Operations Manager 2007 Single Server Installation Steps - Reporting Services
One of the great benefits of SC OM2k7 is the historical information derived from the Agents when offering Alerting, Monitoring, Health Explorer, Performance and Configuration information to the SC OM2k7 Management Server(s). SC OM2k7 is 'different' from MOM2k5 SP1 in that the 'Reporting Services' Data Warehouse data is collected in realtime (as opposed to a SQL Data Transformation Service...
SC Operations Manager 2007 Single Server Installation Steps
SC Operations Manager 2007 Single Server Installation Steps It has been several weeks now since I dropped these Screen Captures into my Library. I have been re-miss in posting these as a Blog entry. The following Screen Captures show a successful SC OM2k7 Single Server Installation. The details of the configuration include: SC OM2k7 RTM SQL2k5 with Reporting Services (in a separate Blog entry) SQL2k5...
Exchange 2007: Understanding the Routing Group Connector between an Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 Messaging Environment
In a previous Blog entry I outlined the steps necessary to install the first Exchange 2007 Server into an existing Exchange 2003 Messaging Environment. This process, which Microsoft terms a 'Transition Strategy' is well defined and well documented. As part of a deeper look into the Routing Group Connector I thought I would offer some details using both the Exchange Management Shell (Powershell...
Hyper-V: Configuration Steps - Exporting a Guest Partition
There are several scenarios where Exporting a Guest Partition is appropriate. The most common scenario is when a new Hyper-V Host Server is brought online to offer additional capacity, or a newly configured 'High Availability' configuration of Hyper-V is made available. There are some caveats for using the 'Export' function. Taylor B from the Microsoft Hyper-V Test Team offers an excellent...
SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1 - Configuration Steps: Creating a Performance Collection Rule for Collecting Performance Data for Windows Servers
There are numerous instances when using SCOM2k7 SP1 it is appropriate to 'collect' Performance Data as reference data when troubleshooting or performing capacity planning for Windows Servers. This Performance Data can either apply to an immediate circumstance (where typically creating a custom MMC using Performance Monitors and Alerts is acceptable), or in collecting Performance Data over a...
ISA Server 2006 - Installing, Configuring and Using the ISA 2006 Cache Directory Tool
When using Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 (ISA2k6) Standard Edition at the Perimeter of your Network in the Web Caching (sometimes referred to as Forward Caching) Role occasionally it is necessary to view, remove or validate specific Web Site URL Content within the ISA2k6 Cache. The ISA2k6 Cache is a dedicated File (typically called DirX.cdat by File Extension) that contains the Content...
