Kevin Holman has already written up on this MP 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 but I wanted to throw in my 2 cents on this topic. There are two critical items which I see in this MP which I see as large steps forward: CSV Monitoring: I was at a client when a CSV ran out of disk…
On October 11th at 2 PM eastern, I will be presenting with Savision on the Top 5 Reasons to Migrate to SCOM 2012. If you want to know what’s coming to OpsMgr 2012 and what the reasons are to migrate this session if for you. Registration is available at: http://welcome.savision.com/SCOMMigrationWebinarRegistrationPage2.html
I’ve been asked several times recently the same question about what we know about the layout of the OperationsManager and OperationsManagerDW databases. The links below summarize what I have been able to find (if you know of others please reply to this blog post with additional information!) OpsMgr 2007 R2 DW SQL Schema link…
Just in case you haven’t already heard this – Do NOT put an OpsMgr Management Server or Root Management Server (RMS) into maintenance mode. It’s not supported, it’s ugly, and it may cause major problems in your OpsMgr environment. Microsoft realizes that it would be best to avoid this situation from occurring so it looks…
This is for my friends in Denver regarding our recent discussion about integration between OpsMgr and Nagios: There is a community written connector at System Center Central which looks pretty interesting: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/indexid/21726/Default.aspx It looks like Quest is also in the mix: http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/quest-management-connectors-for-system-center-operations-manager-12884902196 And System Center Orchestrator would be another viable option which might be the…
This is a long standing question and is one of the top items often asked about Operations Manager. I discussed this topic in “Operations Manager Evolution” at MMS 2011 (shown below). The focus of this blog post is to update as to any options available and current links related to this topic in OpsMgr…
To start with what is a good use and isn’t a good use for the Service Manager dashboard displaying OpsMgr data we need to review the other dashboard solutions and where they work well: OpsMgr built-in dashboards: Good for displaying multiple views in OpsMgr including state, alerts and performance among others. Service Level Dashboard 2.0:…
I just ran across this today and was pleasantly surprised to see Pete Zerger, my friends Sarah and Hamid, myself, along with lots of the Veeam folks and lots of MMS attendees! Check it out! Ah… Fond MMS 2011 memories!
Using Visio integration, I can easily link OpsMgr health status to various items in Visio. The example below shows a standard linking with a healthy/green health indicator. In a previous blog article I discussed other ways to display health status including changing the color of a link between two sites based upon the health state…
One of the keys to integrate dashboard solutions for OpsMgr is to have dashboards route to the appropriate place when areas are clicked on. As an example, on a NOC dashboard view clicking on a Distributed Application would most likely default to opening it in the Health Explorer but a more useful view may actually…
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