My boss recently asked me a very good question about how we can upgrade or install System Center 2012 products. From talking with our internal System Center champions the list below is a summary of available upgrade options for the various System Center 2012 products. Product Name In-Place Upgrade MultiHomed Fresh Installation Configuration Manager *1…
I’ve been spending significant amounts of time working with multiple dashboard solutions which are available for Operations Manager. Specifically Savision Live Maps, Visio 2010 integration, Service Level Dashboard 2.0, and the Service Manager dashboard (customized for OpsMgr). Through integration of these disparate dashboard solutions, we have been able to develop some extremely comprehensive solutions to…
So now that we’ve discussed all of these different dashboard technologies how do we integrate them into a single NOC dashboard which uses each of the functions which we have available? The key to this concept is to use the various unique URL’s which are available for the various different dashboard solutions to provide an…
I had a good quick question asked by a colleague of mine recently – can an OpsMgr 2012 Management Server be installed on Server core? If we look into the OpsMgr 2012 RC documentation available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh205987.aspx (in the OpsMgr_SupConfig document) we see: “Server Operating System: must be Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1” But, that…
When are are monitoring server health from a top level NOC type view (such as this one) if we just include all of the servers in an environment it’s pretty much always going to be red because there is almost some issue going on in the environment. To provide a realistic state of health for…
I’ve had a couple of people ask me the same OpsMgr question recently which indicates that it’s time to blog something (condition A occurs more than 1x, perform these actions – Hey I’m just like a well written orchestrator workflow ). How can I quickly skill up on OpsMgr 2012 – The Top 10…
Based upon the discussions in this article, the core question still stands – what dashboard technologies should I use and when? The first step is to identify the actual dashboard requirements for the organization: “We want dashboards” – isn’t quite sufficient for requirements. Specifically we’re looking for items like: 1) The goal is to…
As most everyone knows in the OpsMgr community Kevin Holman has an excellent article on the various CU installations including the one on CU5: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/08/03/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu5-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx We ran into an issue which I did not see discussed in his article however – or to be more clear – his article told us what we had to…
I spent some time today working on installation of the System Center Cloud Service Process Pack beta (available for download at: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=27844. Since I already had a functional System Center 2012 RC environment I had high hopes that this would not take a long time for installation. I ran into a few challenges – I’m…
Dan and a plethora of the OpsMgr (#SCOM) MVP’s had a good discussion on OpsMgr last night which hit the web today (unscripted and unedited!). Highlights included updates to OpsMgr 2012 around APM, cross-platform, dashboards and more! The podcast is available at: http://insidepodcastnetwork.tv/show/ic14/. Here’s the summary from Dan: “Pete and Dan are joined by Kerrie…
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