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Windows 2008 Failover Clustering: Using the Windows Server and Windows Cluster Management Pack in Operations Manager 2007 SP1 to Monitor Failover Clustering
Operations Manager 2007 SP1 provides a rich Toolset to manage, monitor, configure and report on Windows Servers. In this Blog entry I briefly reviewing capabilities of the Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Windows Cluster Management Packs focused on supporting a 3 Node Windows 2008 Failover Cluster configured with SQL 2008 Failover Cluster Services. If you have note reviewed how these Windows...
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 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...
SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1 - Configuration Steps: SCOM2k7 Basic Event Monitor with a Manual Alert Reset
SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1 - Configuration Steps: SCOM2k7 Basic Event Monitor with a Manual Alert Reset Another of the Operational challenges SCOM2k7 can solve is offering an Alert upon receipt of a specific Event ID in a Windows Event Log. In this scenario I will generate a Basic Event Monitor. The intent of this Basic Event Monitor is to ensure SCOM2k7 offers a 'Critical Alert' when the...
SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1 - SQL Server Management Pack 11-2008
SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1 - SQL Server Management Pack 11-2008 The SC Operations Manager Team has updated the SQL Management Pack to include SQL 2008. Additionally, this new MP includes a number of new or improved views and monitoring capabilities for both SQL2k5 and SQL2k8. Here's the bulleted list from the download page: Support for Enterprise, Standard and Express editions of SQL Server...
SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1 - Validating the SPN Entries for Root Management Server and the SDK and Config User ID
SC Operations Manager 2007 SP1 - Validating the SPN Entries for Root Management Server and the SDK and Config User ID I wanted to record for reference the 'normal' SPN entries for a SCOM2k7 SP1 Root Management Server, along with the SDK and Config User ID in a single server configuration. I have interacted with a number of colleagues on this recently and thought it merited a Blog post that...
