Visio integration can be used to combine Visio diagrams which can be saved to a Visio Web Access (.VDW) file which can be displayed in SharePoint 2010 Enterprise as a live Visio diagram integrated with Operations Manager. This provides a way to display the state of OpsMgr entities for the environment and to use the…
Installation of the Visio Add-in for Operations Manager 2007 R2 was pretty straightforward. The download is available at: Microsoft Visio Toolbox and details on installing and using this functionality are available at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee342533.aspx. I did however run into two installation challenges: What’s required: SharePoint 2010 Enterprise edition. My recommendation is not to even both to…
This drove me crazy for a while until I figured it out! Ever opened up a VDW file in Visio for your OpsMgr dashboard and it looks like this (covering only a small section of the screen)? This can be really frustrating especially when you need to break out binoculars to see the DA. If…
I did an interesting interview with the guys at RunAsRadio (Richard Campbell, Greg Hughes) where we talked things I have a lot of interest in including Operations Manager 2007, 2012 and System Center in general. Thank you Richard and Greg for the invitation! The interview is available at: http://www.runasradio.com/ or directly at Cameron Fuller Monitors…
One of the most common questions I run across when integrating various dashboard solutions is how to integrate the dashboards into the OpsMgr web console. As an example, I may have created a distributed application for my line of business application. On my NOC view I show the health of the distributed application but when…
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…
Pete Zerger (MVP, and SystemCenterCentral site), Cameron Fuller (yours truly) and Alec King (Director of Product management at Veeam) are provide a free webinar discussing best practice approaches to monitoring VMware with SCOM – today at 12:00 central (1:00 ET). Give-a-ways include 10 free books which you can choose from these different options: VMware…
Catapult’s own Paul Johnson and Secure Vantage have teamed up to provide a free white paper on how to do security auditing with System Center. This is available on the Secure Vantage website at: http://www.securevantage.com/Resources/WhitePapers/SecurityAuditingwithMicrosoftSystemCenter.aspx. Check it out!
A colleague of mine (Terry Taylor) just launched into blogging with a really solid posting on how to automate the deployment of cross platform agents available at: http://ubergnosis.com/2011/07/11/automated-cross-platform-agent-install-and-discovery/ https://www.catapultsystems.com/ttaylor/archive/2011/07/11/automated-cross-platform-agent-install-and-discovery.aspx His blog links are: http://ubergnosis.com/ And replicated to his Catapult blog at: https://www.catapultsystems.com/ttaylor Great stuff Terry and keep up the blogging!
A little while back I was working with an organization where we put in a batch script which would be called to restart a service using a delay. Over time we found that it would work sometimes but it was not reliable. It appears that issues were occurring with permissions remotely calling batch files. My…
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