Free System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager Dashboards pack available! (#SYSCTR, #OPSMGR, #SCVMM)

The new dashboard pack I have been developing as part of the upcoming System Center 2012 Operations Manager Unleashed book just hit the web today (happy Friday!) and details are on the Unleashed blog site. The blog post on it’s release including screenshots of the various dashboards are available at: OpsMgr Unleashed Blog: http://opsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/free-opsmgr-2012-virtual-machine-manager-dashboards-from-the-opsmgr-unleashed-team-scom/ The…

How do I integrate Operations Manager 2012 Network Devices into Service Manager 2012 as Configuration Items? [#SCSM, #SCOM, #SYSCTR]

During a recent client meeting the request was made that we integrate network devices which we monitor with Operations Manager 2012 into Service Manager 2012 as Configuration Items (CI’s). In theory this sounds easy – Operations Manager 2012 can monitor a variety of network devices out of the box and those become entities. We know…

QuickTricks: Why is my “Performance by Utilization” report failing with a query execution failed for dataset ‘PerfDS’? (#SCOM, #SQL)

Does this look familiar? If so, check out this blog post. If not, move along, nothing to see here…. Kevin Holman blogged on this topic at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/09/30/opsmgr-new-base-os-mp-6-0-6956-0-adds-cluster-shared-volume-monitoring-bpa-and-many-changes.aspx. The following is a subset from Kevin’s blog post: — “When you try and run the report ‘Performance By Utilization’ you get an error: An error has occurred…

Does-It-Work-In-OM12? SharePoint 2010 Monitoring (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)

Topic: SharePoint 2010 Management Pack Download location: SharePoint 2010 Management Pack Issues: The task included which configures the SharePoint site does not work in Operations Manager 2012. Notes: A separate download is available which includes a version of the task designed for OpsMgr 2012 which is available on connect at: https://connect.microsoft.com/site799/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=37367. This is also available…

Recommended steps before adding network devices, options to monitoring network devices without SNMP, PowerShell samples to ping or telnet based on a file (#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #PowerShell)

In a recent environment where we were deploying several network devices for monitoring with Operations Manager, we developed the following pre-deployment steps to maximize our success when monitoring SNMP devices in OpsMgr 2012: 1) Create a network monitoring resource pool using management servers or gateways. 2) Get a list of names and IP addresses for…