February 2008 - Posts
Brief Description
Describes how the System Center Operations Manager (Ops Mgr) 2007 was implemented to improve the efficiency of infrastructure management and system health.
Overview
Describes how the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr 2007) was implemented to improve Microsoft IT's infrastructure management service offerings. OpsMgr 2007 provides a centralized monitoring infrastructure with increased reliability and granular rights delegation. By implementing OpsMgr 2007, Microsoft IT improved operational efficiency and reduced the cost of IT life cycle investments.
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TechNet Webcast: Client Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)
Friday, February 29, 2008 11:30 A.M.–1:00 P.M. Pacific Time
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032366290&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Event Overview
In this session, we show you some of the new features that we have built into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. By the end of this session, you will have a good understanding of what we are doing with client monitoring. We start off with a look at some customer challenges around client monitoring and then explain the Microsoft short-term and long-term vision for client monitoring. Next, we discuss the approach that we have taken to make client monitoring as flexible as possible with features like Agentless Exception Monitoring, Aggregated Client Monitoring, and Critical Client Monitoring. We wrap up the webcast with a look at the management packs we are delivering specifically for client monitoring.
Presenter: John Baker, IT Pro Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
TechNet Webcast: Installation and Management Pack Migration of Operations Manager 2007 (Level 200)
Friday, March 7, 2008 11:30 A.M.–1:00 P.M. Pacific Time
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032369729&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Event Overview
In this session, we discuss the installation and management pack migration of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. Join us to learn how to properly plan your deployment of Operations Manager 2007. We also look at common Operations Manager 2007 topologies, how to install each of the components, and some new Operations Manager 2007 deployment features. Finally, we look at how to migrate from Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and leverage your current investment.
Presenter: Blain Barton, TechNet Presenter, Microsoft Corporation
TechNet Webcast: Assure the Availability and Performance of Your SharePoint Environments (Level 300)
Monday, March 10, 2008 1:00 P.M.–2:30 P.M. Pacific Time
http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032368297&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US
Event Overview
Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies continue to see widespread adoption as the solution of choice to deliver collaboration capabilities, content management, business processes, and business intelligence (BI). How can you help ensure that your SharePoint environment is available and performing as expected? Join Sacha Dawes, Luis Camara Manoel, and Oleg Glubochansky in this informative webcast to discover how Microsoft System Center delivers centralized, effective monitoring and management of your SharePoint environments. We cover the features and benefits of using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and the new SharePoint Monitoring Toolkit, and show how together they can help assure the health, availability, and performance of your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 deployments.
Presenters: Sacha Dawes, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation, Luis Camara Manoel, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, and Oleg Glubochansky, Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
We have had several requests recently to disable monitoring for certain disk drives for some of our MOM 2005 Agents. After digging around I found Gerald Mims Modified Storage State Script which looked like a great fit for our needs, there were just a few items that needed to be adjusted to meet our monitoring goals. After consulting Gerald a few times (sorry about all the spam this past week) I was able to finish and test a new Microsoft Windows Storage State Monitoring Script (Version 3).
Version 3 has the same features that version 2 has with the NoDiskAlerts.MOM and the DiskThreshold.MOM files which disable or change disk thresholds. Version 3 is configured to throw alerts only when a percentage threshold is crossed. All three thresholds are parameters in the script.
15% free disk space Warning Alert
10% free disk space Error Alert
5% free disk space Critical Error Alert
Copy the original script "Microsoft Windows Storage State Monitoring Script" and paste it in the script folder in the MOM 2005 Admin console which will create a script named "Copy of Microsoft Windows Storage State Monitoring Script" and rename this script to something like "Modified - Microsoft Windows Storage State Monitoring Script".
Open the "Modified - Microsoft Windows Storage State Monitoring Script" and click the parameters tab and remove the following parameters.
NonSystemDriveFreeSpaceMegaByteYellowState
NonSystemDriveFreespaceMegabyteRedState
SystemDriveFreespaceMegabyteRedState
SystemDriveFreespaceMegabyteYellowState
Now add the following parameters.
Parameter Name: SystemDriveFreespacePercentageYellowWarningState
Parameter Value: 15
Parameter Description: percentage that will fire off a warning - system drive
Parameter Name: NonSystemDriveFreespacePercentageYellowWarningState
Parameter Value: 15
Parameter Description: percentage that will fire off a warning - non system drive
click the apply button.
Click the Script tab, click the mouse button in the text box, hit ctrl-A to select all and hit the delete key. Now copy the modified script into this area. Click the OK button once the code is inserted. The code part is now complete, now its time to create the Event Rule.
Actually we will be copying the original rule and modifying the copy of the rule. Keep in mind that this will have to be done for both Windows 2003 and the Windows 2000 rules if you are using both operating systems in your environment. In the admin console go to
Microsoft Windows Servers Base Operating System\Windows 2003\State Monitoring and Service Discovery\
and right click on the Event rule "Run storage state monitoring" copy it and paste it into the same folder. Rename the rule "Copy of Run storage state monitoring" to "Modified - Run storage state monitoring". Disable the new rule till configuration is done.
Open the rule "Modified - Run storage state monitoring" and click on the Response Tab.
Select Microsoft Windows Storage State Monitoring Script, and click remove. Click the Add button and select Launch a Script, from the Script name drop down box select the "Modified - Microsoft Windows Storage State Monitoring Script" click the OK button on the launch a script window, then click the Apply button on the event rule properties page. Select the Alert suppression tab, and click the check box next to the Severity. This is so new alerts will be sent out when the alert severity changes. Click ok button.
Enable this Event rule when you’re ready.
Enjoy!
Operations Manager 2007 Powershell commandlets are very very powerful. I've only scraped the surface of what they can do with these very simple examples.
1. Get a list of agent managed machine names.
>get-agent | format-list *displayname
2. Get a list of agent managed machine names and thier ip address:
>get-agent | format-list -property, displayname, IPAddress
DisplayName : SERVERNAME.mycompany.Net
IPAddress : 01.01.01.01, 02.02.02.02
Dell has recently released an updated to its SCOM 2007 Management Pack offering.
http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R168582&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=229201
Fixes and Enhancements
1) Added support for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Essentials 2007.
2) Enhanced health drill down model in Diagram views from overall Dell Hardware health to individual hardware components.
3) Includes support for the latest versions of Dell OpenManage Server Administrator v5.2 (including the enhanced Storage Management Service 2.2).
4) Supports monitoring of Dell printers using SNMPv2
Version A02 changes:
- Release includes support for System Center Essentials 2007.
- Dell Management Pack code modified with fixes for removing debug events in the Operations Manager log.
Nine new video from Microsoft on SCOM 2007 Service Pack 1 features.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/opsmgr/bb986763.aspx