One of the commonly requested NOC views is a global or USA based map which shows network connectivity between locations for the environment. I have previously written an article on how to accomplish this with Savision Live Maps. For this example we will be using Visio integration and generate a network map which will have…
I tend to think about surfacing information from OpsMgr primarily in dashboards and gadgets but this often overlooks another core way of displaying data – through the preexisting reports in OpsMgr. The Service Level Dashboard 2.0 contains a pre-built report called “Service Level Tracking Summary Report” which is a very useful report! The report is…
I’ve been spending some time recently working with the xSNMP Extensions for System Center OpsMgr 2007 from CodePlex to provide monitoring for some Data Domain devices. First off let me state that I’m truly impressed with these packs – especially since these are community written management packs. Huge kudos to anyone who has been involved…
I’ve been asked by lots of different groups of people what will be available in ConfigMgr 2012 related to mobile device management. While this is still a moving target as ConfigMgr 2012 isn’t currently released, ConfigMgr MVP Jason Sandys took a stab at this at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/jsandys/archive/2011/09/09/mobile-device-management-in-configmgr-2012.aspx. Check it out!
For a long time I got stuck in the mindset that a Service Level Tracking item (SLT) contained a single Service Level Objective (SLO). A single SLT can be created which contains multiple Service Level Objectives (SLO’s). As an example, service levels may include or not include planned maintenance windows. The example discussed in the…
The Service Level Dashboard 2.0 provides a useful dashboard to display either Service Levels or overview of the health of servers in an OpsMgr environment (See this article for background information on installation of the SLD 2.0 and challenges). The SLD 2.0 displays a maximum of six service level per screen as shown below: Attempts…
One of the commonly asked-for dashboards in OpsMgr is a Network Operations Center view (NOC view). Each of these dashboards will need a different look and feel depending upon the requirements of the client. This blog entry is to provide recommendations for approaches to generate dashboards which have a look and feel which are…
Installation of the SLD 2.0 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 is usually pretty straightforward. The download is available at the Microsoft Download center and details on installing and using this functionality are available in the release notes. As background, SLD 2.0 is useful to provide dashboards with gauges and charts for Service Level Objectives created…
Installation of the SLD 2.0 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 is usually pretty straightforward. The download is available at the Microsoft Download center and details on installing and using this functionality are available in the release notes. As background, SLD 2.0 is useful to provide dashboards with gauges and charts for Service Level Objectives created…
In the OpsMgr console if you press Control+(1-5) it navigates to the different panes in the bottom left corner. So If I press control+1 it routes to the Monitoring pane, control+2 to the Authoring pane, control+3 to the Reporting, control+4 to the Administration, and control+5 to the My Workspace pane (depending upon what items are…
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