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…
[Also Known As: How to match colors for graphics in custom OpsMgr NOC dashboards using Microsoft Paint] My son Gavin (known from previous blog posts including how to use a Kinect to drive Operations Manager) taught me a trick today while I was working on building an alpha version of a NOC dashboard for a…
NOTE: If you experience a situation where removing an Operations Manager server from the All Management Servers resource pool causes the server to become grayed out see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2853431. As outlined in the “SC12_OpsMgr_Deployment” on page 12: (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29256) there is a slight issue with this as it’s currently written. Resource Pools Network monitoring in System…
At this point in time there is a gap in the System Center 2012 Orchestrator documentation available which explains IIS requirements. Current SCOrch documentation is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29258. The following blog article provides details on what components in the Web Server are required for Orchestrator 2012: Question: What IIS features are required for Orchestrator?…
Management Pack Description: The ReSearch This management pack is a free community written management pack that provides a way to quickly research alerts which occur in Operations Manager. These resolutions can be search for not only on the community repository but also on an internal knowledge repository or through searching with Bing or Google. Functionality…
One of the subtle changes in OpsMgr 2012 was a re-write of the agent CPU utilization script. This new script more accurately calculates CPU utilization from the agent. This new script removes the CPU overestimation which was seen in the previous version the non-relevant alerts that had occurred as a result of the older version…
Self Tuning Thresholds (STT’s) have been around since Operations Manager 2007 released. I admit that most of my exposure to them has been on the tuning side of things – identifying management packs where STT’s were implemented and were noisy in a client environment. Kevin Holman has a good blog post on this topic at:…
So you have an Operations Manager environment with Savision Live Maps and you thinking about integrating Live Maps with Service Manager 2012? Here’s the quick gotta-know to get it configured. Software acquisition and Installation First, download Live Maps (available from http://www.savision.com/download). The installation for the Savision Live Maps ServiceManager components are both included in the…
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