To deploy the OpsMgr 2012 console, there are three items that need to be deployed. The first is .NET 4.0, the second is Report Viewer, and the third is the OpsMgr 2012 console itself. Configure both the .NET 4.0 and Report Viewer to be dependencies for the Operations Manager console. .NET example installation syntax:…
I was recently working in an OpsMgr 2012 environment where there were problems adding a Performance widget because no counters were appearing for a custom group which had been created. To test this we performed the following two tests: 1) Created a group with two static members. We attempted to create add a Performance widget…
Environments which have SharePoint available gain several benefits from using SharePoint together with Operations Manager. The following is my Top-5 list of these benefits. Benefit #5: Using SharePoint as a process repository SharePoint document libraries provide an excellent way to store documents within document libraries which can easily be searched using the built-in SharePoint functionality.…
A little while back I was asked a question that I wanted to spend some time on answering with more than a quick reply. The question is below: “Why do you suggest that a parallel SCOM implementation always be set up to monitor a Quality Assurance/Development environment? My manager is trying to lighten our footprint,…
The following blog post is a series of Q&A items related to System Center Orchestrator 2012. Thanks to Marty List, Paul Johnson and Albert Uy for their expertise, insights and assistance putting this together! Question: How can I tell what Integration Packs are current for Orchestrator. Answer: At this point it appears that the…
The following was done as part of a project to validate that network devices monitored by OpsMgr 2007 R2 using the xSNMP management pack still work when the environment is upgraded to OpsMgr 2012. To test this situation, I installed an all-in-one OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment (similar to what was done in this blog article),…
During a recent client engagement, there was a request to add databases to Service Manager as CI’s. This was in addition to previous requests to add both network devices and VMware servers from OpsMgr into Service Manager. As background the following two articles documented the first attempts I made at synchronizing information from OpsMgr 2012…
One of the additional ways that SharePoint can be used within Operations Manager is to provide a quick access to any standards and processes which are defined for the organization. By creating a web page view which points to your SharePoint document library or folder for standards you can quickly integrate documentation for processes and…
Unless you are running 32-bit operating systems and 32-bit versions of office, there are some challenges in using the company knowledge feature currently available in Operations Manager 2012 (and Operations Manager 2007). For details on the requirements for company knowledge and requirements to use it see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212900.aspx What if you could replace that functionality…
During a recent client meeting the request was made that we integrate VMware servers which we monitor with Operations Manager 2012 into Service Manager 2012 as Configuration Items (CI’s). We are using Veeam’s VMware monitoring management pack to provide monitoring for VMware in Operations Manager 2012. From a high level these were the steps required…
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