December 2009 - Posts
As requested I dug up some of the System Center Virtual User Group recordings from this year. I located meetings 5 thru 7 easily, so I’m posting links to them so they can be found.
Meeting #5
Jason Sandys - Desired Configuration Management (DCM): Objectives and Strategies
Harold Dyck - Extending DCM in ConfigMgr 2007
Marco Shaw - Powershell v2
Kevin Holman - Improving Console Performance in Operations Manager 2007
Meeting #6
Steve Rachui (SCCM Topic) start to 50:43:00
break/poll/technical problems 50:43 - 1:06:00
Baelson Duque (OpsMgr R2) 1:06:00 - 2:14:07
Meeting #7
Introduction 2:50
Hyper-V 2:50 41:20
Bridgeways 41:20 1:16:00
MP Authoring 1:16:50 2:17:41
Q&A 2:18:00 2:37:45
As I find more meeting recordings I’ll post them and make sure they are available to everyone.
Enjoy!
The new management pack for SQL 2005/2008 can be found here. Download link.
Please see the management pack documentation as there are minimum requirements that need to be made prior to deploying this service pack.
Overview
The SQL Server Management Pack provides the capabilities for Operations Manager 2007 to discover SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 installations and components and to monitor them, primarily from the perspective of availability and performance. The availability and performance monitoring is done using a combination of scripts and native Operations Manager capabilities.
Important Pre-Requisite Notes:
Clusters: In order to ensure that all monitoring works correctly for clustered instances of SQL Server ensure that your OpsMgr agents on the physical nodes of the cluster are running either OpsMgr 2007 R2 or OpsMgr 2007 SP1 with the patch installed from KB959865.
SQL-DMO: Scripts in the SQL Server 2008 management pack rely on SQL Data Management Objects (SQL-DMO) to query information from the SQL Server. SQL-DMO is now deprecated and is not shipped as a part of SQL Server 2008. Every system with SQL Server 2008 that will be monitored must have SQL-DMO installed from the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components. For instructions on how to download and install the SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components refer to the management pack guide.
Feature Bullet Summary:
The following list gives an overview of the features of the SQL Server management pack. Refer to the SQL Server management pack guide for more detail.
- Support for Enterprise, Standard and Express editions of SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 and 32bit, 64bit and ia64 architectures.
- Support for both simple and complex SQL configurations such as clustered installations, multiple instances and 32bit roles running on a 64bit OS. For full details on supported configurations refer to the guide included with the management pack.
- Discovery and monitoring of SQL Server roles such as DB Engine, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, Integrations Services.
- Discovery of SQL components such as databases, the SQL Agent and SQL jobs.
- Over 20 views covering areas such as database free space, SQL related performance, SQL related alerts, and lists of the various SQL roles and components which are discovered and their related state.
- Reports for longer-term analysis of common problem areas related to SQL Server such as SQL Server lock analysis and top deadlocked databases, SQL Server service pack levels across discovered roles, user connection activity. Likewise the generic reports from the Microsoft Generic Report Library can be used against the roles and components discovered by the SQL MPs to review availability and performance across many systems and over longer periods of time.
- Role and component specific tasks which provide access to common tools, triage information, or corrective actions without needing to leave the Operations Console in most cases.
- Monitoring of databases covers database status, database free space, log shipping monitoring for both the source and destination, and transaction log free space.
- Monitoring of key SQL related services.
- Monitoring for persistent SPID blocking.
- Monitoring of numerous SQL events and performance data points. Alerts bring the issue to your attention and provide knowledge on the impact and possible resolutions.
Its that time of year again, to begin preparing MMS 2010 content, so Microsoft is looking for feed back in the areas of what Products your interested in what level of technical depth you would like for that product. The survey is open till Dec 22 2009 and they will draw two names from the respondents who will win a Portable Media Player. So if your planning on going to MMS 2010, make sure you take the survey.
http://www.mms-2010.com/wizard/content_survey/wp1.aspx