System Center Operations Manager 2007

Documentation: SCOM Management Pack for Group Policy Change Reporter

rodtrent — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:29:47 GMT

Explains how you can enable integration of NetWrix Change Reporting products with third party Security information and event management (SIEM) systems.

AEM ADMX File for OpsMgr 2007 R2

rodtrent — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:05:50 GMT

Given that there have been requests to support an ADMX format group policy file for Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) I generated an unofficial one that the community can use for now. The ADMX file provided here has gone through very limited testing so please feel free to file any bugs in the comments section below.

Note that the ADM file format that the wizard provides will work on Windows 7 and W2K8 R2. Some companies have new policies in the place which require them to only use ADMX file types and so this is the stop gap solution for now.

For steps on how to configure group policy using ADMX files please refer to the article below.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772705(WS.10).aspx

Once again please note this has not gone through a lot of testing and is a "Beta" version of the ADMX file for AEM.

Thanks

Satya

VMware View Integration - Integrating with SCOM

rodtrent — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:51:15 GMT

You can use Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor the state of VMware View components, including View Connection Server instances and security servers and View services running on these hosts.

Jalasoft released Xian Wings support for iPhone and iPad platforms

rodtrent — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:52:54 GMT

Today, Jalasoft released Xian Wings support for iPhone and iPad platforms. Xian Wings is a smartphone application which provides users with an easy access to system states, real time alerts, performance graphs, tasks and much more. Wings provides a useful tool for system administrators who would prefer to always be on top of any developing issues. With this amazing product you will never miss a thing, having the Operations Manager console available for you anywhere you go and at any time of the day.

HP StorageWorks Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 installation and user guide

rodtrent — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:32:36 GMT

This guide provides information about HP Management Pack for Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr 2007). HP StorageWorks Management Pack version 2.0 is also referred to as the Management Pack.

Server Installation for Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

rodtrent — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:11:39 GMT

Server Installation for Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

Client Installation for Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

rodtrent — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:11:05 GMT

Client Installation for Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

User Guide for Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

rodtrent — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:10:29 GMT

User Guide for Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

System Center Operations Manager 2007: Infrastructure Planning and Design

rodtrent — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:28:55 GMT

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) guides are the next version of Windows Server System Reference Architecture. The guides in this series help clarify and streamline design processes for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, with each guide addressing a unique infrastructure technology or scenario.

Operations Manager 101

rodtrent — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:49:38 GMT

This is also beneficial when you as an OpsMgr Admin, need a “101” document for your application owners – who need a little assistance getting started navigating the console, looking at alert – health - performance data, creating a report, etc

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack Guide for Veritas NetBackup

rodtrent — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:18:58 GMT

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Pack for Veritas NetBackup lets you monitor and manage NetBackup alerts using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 SCOM). By detecting and alerting you on critical conditions, this Management Pack helps prevent possible service outages.

This document discusses how you can deploy and configure the SCOM Management Pack for NetBackup

into your existing SCOM 2007 environment.

Visio 2007 Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2

rodtrent — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:28:23 GMT

The Visio 2007 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 combines the strengths of two applications widely used in enterprise IT to simplify the creation of customized graphical dashboards showing the health of an environment. Examples of such diagrams include showing objects by geography overlaid on a map, by location in a datacenter or building, by role in a logical view of an application or by topology for complex distributed applications such as Exchange or Active Directory.

Windows Server 2003/2008 Group Policy Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

rodtrent — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:28:21 GMT

The Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Pack includes monitors, rules, views, and knowledge for the monitoring of the application of group policy settings on Windows Server 2008. It provides a knowledge base of useful information to help administrators resolve an issue when group policy fails to process.

The Windows Server 2003 Group Policy Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 includes monitors, rules, views, and knowledge for the monitoring of the proper application of Group Policy included in Windows Server 2003.

Feature Summary
Windows Server 2008 Group Policy MP

Native Operations Manager 2007 management pack
Windows Server 2008 Support
Updated Health Logic
Updated Knowledge Base Information
Dashboard Views

Windows Server 2003 Group Policy MP
The Group Policy Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 monitors Group Policy infrastructure and in-scope client side extensions. Specifically, it provides Group Policy health monitoring for:

Group Policy core infrastructure/registry client-side extension
Scripts client-side extension
Software installation client-side extension
Security client-side extension
Folder redirection client-side extension
Disk quota
Provides a knowledge base of useful information to help administrators resolve an issue when Group Policy fails to process.

Release History

7/22/2009 - Updated release with fixes, version 6.0.6648.0
12/19/2008 - Combined Windows Server 2008 and 2003 Group Policy MP, version 6.0.6278.22
7/28/2008 - Initial release of Windows Server 2008 Group Policy MP, version 6.0.6278.22
7/28/2008 - Updated release of Windows Server 2003 Group Policy MP, version 6.0.6278.22
6/1/2007 - Initial Release of Windows Server 2003 Group Policy MP, version 6.0.5000.0

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors

rodtrent — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:26:24 GMT

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors provide Operations Manager 2007 R2 alert forwarding to remote systems, such as an Enterprise Management System (EMS) or a service desk system. After Operations Manager 2007 R2 forwards an alert to a remote system, that alert data is synchronized throughout the lifetime of the alert. The result of that data synchronization is a robust and seamless systems management environment. Such an environment enables cross-organization support processes to take advantage of the resources and strengths of formerly independent support groups. The ultimate effect is improved enterprise systems health through improved organizational communication.

Sharing data between Operations Manager 2007 R2 and remote systems enables enterprise correlation of events from Windows-based systems, hardware, network, and UNIX and Linux systems. Correlating these events allows IT staff to determine the causes of issues and reduce the time to resolution of IT outages.

Synchronization of data between Operations Manager 2007 R2 and remote systems also enables operational groups to use familiar management interfaces. Users update an alert by using their management tool, and the data is updated in tools that are used by other operational groups.

This release of the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connectors includes the following Connectors:

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for HP OpenView Operations for Unix
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for HP OpenView Operations for Windows
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for BMC Remedy ARS
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Universal Connector

Feature Summary:

Operations Manager 2007 R2 alerts are forwarded to a remote system.
Operations Manager 2007 R2 alerts are synchronized with remote systems throughout the lifetime of the alert.
Failover to backup remote system servers is supported.
The High Availability feature supports failover to secondary Connectors that are installed on other servers in the Operations Manager 2007 R2 domain.
Multiple Operations Manager 2007 R2 management groups that are communicating with a single remote system are supported.
Multiple different remote systems can be supported with multiple Connectors that are installed in one Operations Manager 2007 R2 management group.
Delivery of Operations Manager 2007 R2 alerts is guaranteed by requiring acknowledgement from remote systems.
The Connector user interface that is integrated into the Operations Manager 2007 R2 console provides the following functionality:
- Connector health status can be monitored in the Operations Manager 2007 R2 console by using Connector management packs.
- Connector configuration is limited to Operations Manager 2007 R2 administrators.
- Operations Manager 2007 R2 servers, remote system servers, and High Availability Connectors can be configured for communications.
- Alerts forwarding is configured by selecting alert fields, mapping severity, and mapping resolution states to equivalents in a remote system.
- Selected alerts can be forwarded manually from the Operations Manager 2007 R2 console.
- The Operations Manager 2007 R2 Product Connector Subscription wizard allows automatic forwarding of Operations Manager 2007 R2 alerts.
- The Product Connector Subscription wizard allows separate alert forwarding for multiple Connectors.

System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Environment System Requirements:

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2
The Connector Service and the Configuration UI components must be installed on computers running Windows Server 2003 SP1 or greater or Windows Server 2008 operating systems
The Configuration UI component must be installed on a server on which the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Operations Console is installed
An instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 must be available within the given Operations Manager 2007 R2 domain
.NET Framework 3.0 SP1 or a later version
The English version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) if Visual C++ 2008 is not installed
WS-Management 1.1

Supported Enterprise Management System Versions and Platforms:

Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
- Tivoli Framework 4.1 or 4.11
- Tivoli Enterprise Console 3.9 on Windows Server 2003, Solaris SPARC 10, or AIX 5.3
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for HP OpenView Operations for Windows
- OVO for Windows 7.5 or 8.x on Windows Server 2003
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for HP OpenView Operations for Unix
- OVO 8.x for Unix on HPUX 11i v2 and 11i v3 (Itanium & PA-RISC), or Solaris SPARC 10
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Connector for BMC Remedy ARS
- Help Desk 6.3 or Service Desk 7.1 running on Windows Server 2003
Operations Manager 2007 R2 Universal Connector
- Supports connections to systems running on the following platforms:
  - Windows Server 2003
  - Windows Server 2008
  - Solaris SPARC 10
  - AIX 5.3
  - HPUX 11i v2 (Itanium & PA-RISC)
  - HPUX 11i v3 (Itanium & PA-RISC)
  - RHEL 5
  - SLES 10

Windows-based Interop Provider System Requirements:

Windows Server 2003 SP1 or greater or Windows Server 2008 operating systems
The English version of Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86) if Visual C++ 2008 is not installed
WS-Management 1.1

Unix/Linux-based Interop Provider System Requirements:

Supported Platforms for HP Operations Manager Connector:
- HP-UX 11i v3 (IA64 & PA-RISC)
- HP-UX 11i v2 (IA64 & PA-RISC)
- Solaris 10 SPARC
Supported Platforms for IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console Connector:
- IBM AIX 5.3
- Solaris 10 SPARC
Supported Platforms for the Universal Connector:
- IBM AIX 5.3
- Solaris 10 SPARC
- HP-UX 11i v3 (IA64 & PA-RISC)
- HP-UX 11i v2 (IA64 & PA-RISC)
- RHEL 5.1
- SLES 10 SP1
Unix/Linux OS Package Dependencies:
- IBM AIX 5.3
  - xlC.rte minimum version 9.0.0.2
  - openssl.base minimum version 0.9.8.4
- HP-UX 11i v2 IA86
  - HPUXBaseOS minimum version B.11.23
  - HPUXBaseAux minimum version B.11.23.0706
  - HPUXBaseAux.openssl minimum version A.00.09.07l.003
  - PAM
- HP-UX 11i v2 PA-RISC
  - HPUX11i-OE minimum version B.11.23.0706
  - OS-Core.MinimumRuntime.CORE-SHLIBS minimum version B.11.23
  - HPUXBaseAux minimum version B.11.23.0706
  - HPUXBaseAux.openssl minimum version A.00.09.071.003
  - PAM
- HP-UX 11i v3 IA86
  - HPUX11i-OE minimum version B.11.31. 0709
  - OS-Core.MinimumRuntime.CORE-SHLIBS minimum version B.11.31
  - SysMgmtMin minimum version B.11.31.0709
  - SysMgmtMin.openssl minimum version A.00.09.08d.002
  - PAM
- HP-UX 11i v3 PA-RISC
  - HPUX11i-OE minimum version B.11.31
  - OS-Core.MinimumRuntime.CORE2-SHLIBS minimum version B.11.31
  - openssl/Openssl.openssl minimum version A.00.09.08d.002
  - PAM
- RHEL 5.1
  - Gcc minimum version 4.1.1-52.el5
  - Glibc minimum version 2.5-12
  - Openssl minimum version 0.9.8b-8.3.el5
  - PAM minimum version 0.99.6.2-3.14.el5
- Solaris 10 SPARC
  - Required OS patch 117463-05
  - SPROcpl minimum version 11.0,REV=2005.10.13
  - SUNWlibC minimum version 5.10, REV=2004.12.22
  - SUNWlibms minimum version 5.10, REV=2004.11.23
  - SUNWlibmsr minimum version 5.10, REV=2004.11.23
  - SUNWcslr minimum version 11.10.0, REV=2005.01.21.15.53
  - SUNWcsl minimum version 11.10.0, REV=2005.01.21.15.53
  - OpenSSL minimum version 11.10.0,REV=2005.01.21.15.53
  - PAM minimum version 11.10.0, REV=2005.01.21.15.53
- SLES 10
  - glibc-2.4-31.30 minimum version 2.4-31.30
  - OpenSSL minimum version 0.9.8a-18.15
  - PAM minimum version 0.99.6.3-28.8

Instructions

To install this download:

Download this file by clicking the Download button and saving to the necessary system(s).
Double-click the downloaded file to extract the download and provide the HTML document with the necessary component(s) for the Interop Connectors.
Select the specific Interop Provider components and copy to the Interop Provider system.
Install the Interop Provider via the instructions in the Deployment Guide
Select the Connector Service/Configuration UI components and copy to the appropriate system in your SCOM 2007 R2 environment
Install the Connector Service/Configuration UI via the instructions in the Deployment Guide

Windows HPC Server 2008 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007

rodtrent — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:23:51 GMT

The Windows HPC Server 2008 Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of Windows HPC Server 2008 for a cluster environment. It monitors Windows HPC Server components – such as head node, compute node, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) broker node, network, and Job Scheduler – to report issues that can cause downtime or poor performance for the cluster that is running Windows HPC Server 2008.

Feature Summary
The Windows HPC Server 2008 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 includes a number of key monitoring scenarios that are enabled with monitors, rules, alerts and tasks to help manage an HPC cluster, which include:

Head Node Monitoring
Network Monitoring
Job Scheduler Monitoring
Compute Node Monitoring
Broker Node Monitoring

Release History

10/29/2008 - Original release of the English version, version 2.0.1551.0
12/2/2008 - MP guide update, version 2.0.1551.0
TBD - Updated release, version 2.1.1704.0