Web Application Availability Monitoring, Savision Live Maps and non-sealed management packs (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
During a recently client engagement, I was asked three questions related to Savision Live Maps and OpsMgr 2012 which I thought were worth sharing: 1) What is the difference between the Web Application Availability Monitoring and Web Application Transaction Monitoring in OpsMgr 2012? 2) Can I add entities from different sealed management packs to a…
IT Consulting: Advice for aspiring monitoring folks, Giving back to the technical community (#SCOM, #SYSCTR, #ITConsulting)
I recently received a very nice email for a Systems Engineer who specializes in Operations Manager who asked me for advice on becoming well known in the monitoring field. I thought that this was an interesting question on multiple levels but the big concept behind this question is really about how giving back to the…
Can a crossplat (UNIX/Linux) agent be multihomed in OpsMgr? (#SCOM #SYSCTR)
One of my clients recently asked me a very reasonable question that I had not considered yet. Can a crossplat agent be multihomed in OpsMgr? As background in OpsMgr a Windows agent can be multihomed to up to four different management groups (meaning the same agent can report to four different OpsMgr management groups). Some…
QuickTricks: Bulk delete Management Packs in OpsMgr 2012, Remove all non-English Management Packs
I originally blogged on this for OpsMgr 2007 R2 which is available at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/67980/Default.aspx. In OpsMgr 2012 there are updated PowerShell scripts so it was time to get an update done for this blog post. In the original scenario I had added a bunch of management packs named with test that I needed to remove.…
Windows 8, IE 10, compatibility mode and SCC
I recent rebuilt my laptop to run on Windows 8 and had been working around one annoyance I had found so far – some of the websites which I work with on a regular basis weren’t responding as they had been. As an example, the System Center Central site (SCC) below would not let me…
How does the failover process work in OpsMgr 2012? (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
“In OpsMgr 2012 how does the failover process actually work?” For starters, this answer varies depending upon what is doing the communicating and what it is communicating to: Agent to Management Server, Agent to Gateway, Gateway to Management Server, Network device to resource pool, and Unix/Linux agent to resource pool. Windows Agents reporting to a…
How to display Key Performance Indicators for a group of servers in OpsMgr 2012 (#SCOM #SYSCTR)
Are you looking for a way to quickly display key performance indicators (KPI’s) for a group of servers in OpsMgr 2012? Dashboards to the rescue! Open the OpsMgr console, Monitoring pane, right-click to create a new dashboard (follow through the wizard). For this example, we will use a four cell grid dashboard which will show…
QuickTricks: Multi-homing an agent to OpsMgr 2012 (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
So, you have an existing OpsMgr 2007 R2 environment and you have decided to use a multi-home migration to move to OpsMgr 2012. What are some key points to consider? First is to consider what upgrade options are available in System Center: Attached is the matrix of the System Center components and their deployment options…
Tuning the System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager management pack (#SYSCTR, #SCVMM, #SCOM)
Based upon my experiences with the SCVMM 2012 management pack in Operations Manager 2012, I added several ReSearch This! KB’s on this topic which are linked below: Tuning for the System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager management pack: (alert name, URL for the ReSearch This KB) VGS Not installed: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/indexId/93620/Default.aspx Host has exceeded the…