As Operations Manager moves more into management of heterogeneous environments, it’s become more apparent that this is an area of interest in OpsMgr 2012 for a lot of our clients. In a previous blog post I went through the steps required to integrate Tomcat into OpsMgr monitoring, and to integrate Unix/Linux systems in System Center…
For an upcoming demonstration I was tasked with showing how End-User Recovery works in Data Protection Manager 2012. For most of this process I worked from Robert’s article at: http://robertanddpm.blogspot.com/2011/02/eur.html. The following were the steps that I ended up doing to achieve the same task in DPM 2012: 1) The first step was to…
As a simple starting point to demonstrate some of the new JEE monitoring functionality in Operations Manager a colleague of mine at Microsoft recommended that I start with the simplest pieces and then go to more complicated examples. The first item to test is Tomcat and to simplify the lab experience I installed it…
John Joyner just provided the steps that he used to recover the lab environment which we use for System Center Operations Manager 2012. Details are available at: http://opsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/disaster-recovery-in-system-center-2012-operations-manager/
I am not one of those people who is a naturally born public speaker. My friends, who have known me for a while (the decade+ club), would attest to this statement. My earliest memory of public speaking was a debate class in high school. In this particular debate the only point I won was that…
The following notes cover approximately one day of Windows Server 8 Beta presentations which John Savill did recently for Windows IT Pro. Everything in this is as of the BETA version of the product, things may change between now and RTM (not feature complete or feature locked). Installation: · Server Core Installation X64, Server with…
The following are the two topics which were discussed for additional links from a Q&A session on 3/8: Question: “How do we simulate network devices in OpsMgr 2012” Answer: Try using the Jalasoft network device simulator: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2012/02/17/test-demo-opsmgr-2012-network-monitoring-with-jalasoft-s-network-device-simulator.aspx Question: “Where do I go find answer to System Center 2012 licensing?” Answer: System Center licensing FAQ:…
In OpsMgr 2012 if you open a diagram view which has more than 50 objects, the following message will display: “The requested view will contain at least X objects and may require substantial time to render. Do you wish to continue?” For your environment this message may become annoying over time if you have larger…
Inside Central posted the podcast I had done last week on skilling up on system center 2012 including topics like: Building home lab environments for all of System Center 2012 Tricks to use when lab testing Operations Manager 2012 Check it out and I also owe a shout-out to Eric Morrison who started me on…
Since I started working with Operations Manager 2007 and Distributed Applications (DA) I’ve run across situations where when I was creating a diagram view (usually for a DA) if I had more than eight objects at a layer it would group them as healthy, warning and critical. Unfortunately, this isn’t a very intuitive view to…
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