Thursday, July 31, 2014

[OpsMgr 2012] System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems - New release ( #SCOM #Opsmgr2012 )

The Monitoring Packs for UNIX and Linux Operating Systems enable discovering, monitoring, and managing UNIX and Linux computers with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager.

 


​​​​The UNIX and Linux Operating Systems Management Packs enable discovering, monitoring, and managing UNIX and Linux computers with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Operations Manager, and System Center 2012 R2 - Operations Manager. They provide both proactive and reactive monitoring of the UNIX and Linux operating systems. The management packs monitor components such as processes, resources, and server agents. The monitoring provided by the management packs includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of UNIX and Linux components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios. In addition to health monitoring capabilities, the management packs include reports, diagnostics, tasks, and views that enable near real-time diagnosis and resolution of detected issues. The management packs also enable the installation of the Audit Collection Services for UNIX/Linux Management Packs.

Feature Summary
  • Provides monitoring of the AIX 5.3, AIX 6.1, and AIX 7 operating systems.
  • Provides monitoring of the HP-UX 11iv2 and HP-UX 11iv3 operating systems.
  • Provides monitoring of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 operating systems.
  • Provides monitoring of Solaris 9, Solaris 10, and Solaris 11 operating systems.
  • Provides monitoring of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating systems.
  • Enables the installation of the Audit Collection Services for UNIX/Linux Management Packs
  • Provides monitoring of CentOS 5 and CentOS 6 operating systems
  • Provides monitoring of Debian GNU/Linux 5, Debian GNU/Linux 6, and Debian GNU/Linux 7 operating systems
  • Provides monitoring of Oracle Linux 5 and Oracle Linux 6 operating systems
  • Provides monitoring of Ubuntu Linux Server 10.04 and Ubuntu Linux Server 12.04 operating systems
  • Enables the installation of the Audit Collection Services for UNIX/Linux Management Packs
Détails

Version:
Date Published:
7.5.1025.0 7/30/2014
File Name:
File Size:
System Center 2012 MPs for UNIX and Linux.msi
470.4 MB
AIXMPGuide.doc 692 KB
HPUXMPGuide.doc 553 KB
RHELMPGuide.doc 773 KB
SLESMPGuide.doc 750 KB
SolarisMPGuide.doc
729 KB
System Center 2012 R2 Management Packs for Unix and Linux.msi
212.8 MB
UniversalLinuxMPGuide.doc
448 KB

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Friday, July 25, 2014

[Agenda] System Center Universe 2014 Europe - September 17 - 19 Basel, Switzerland ( #SystemCenterUniverse #SCU #SystemCenter )

Even if I can not participate, I inform you that this year, the System Center Universe Europe will be from September 17 to 19 in Basel, Switzerland.
 
Congress Center Basel
Messeplatz 21
4058 Basel
Switzerland
 
System Center Universe is a community conference that is focused on systems management and virtualization topics such as cloud, datacenter and modern workplace management with Microsoft System Center, Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure. The credo "top quality from the community to the community" is very important to us. That said it's obvious that we have some of the best speakers and community leaders from around the world that will present high quality sessions at the conference.




Open SCU Europe site to read more, you'll find the Agenda & Session on this page and register on this one !




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Thursday, July 24, 2014

[Script] Script resources for IT professionals (#Script #SystemCenter )

Microsoft has created a new repository  in the Technet Gallery :

You can download resources and applications for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, SharePoint, System Center, Office, and other products. Find resources written in VB Script, PowerShell, SQL, JavaScript, or other script languages.

New resources are added frequently so check often and see what's new.


Go now to the script repository and browse to System Center >

 
As we can see, 31 samples have already been added for Operations Manager and at least 7 sample for Operations Manager Sample


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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

[OpsMgr 2012 SP1][OpsMgr 2012 R2] Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) 6.1 management packs now available (#Symantec #OpsMgr2012 #ManagementPack )

Extend the management capability of SCOM by applying a Symantec Management Pack (MP). A Symantec MP enables SCOM to monitor the events that are generated by specific applications and to display alerts.
 
http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/sfw-61-scom-2012-sp1-and-2012-r2-management-packs-now-available
 
The following Symantec MPs that support SCOM 2012 SP1 and SCOM 2012 R2 are now available:
  • Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) Management Pack
  • Symantec Cluster Communication Management Pack
These MPs allow you to manage the storage and clusters that are deployed in a Microsoft environment. You can use the Monitoring pane of the SCOM console to view events and alerts.
Storage Foundation for Windows Management Pack
The SFW MP allows you to monitor the SFW servers, and generates events and alerts. This MP allows you to monitor the events that are generated by SFW components (such as disks, disk groups, and volumes), Volume Replicator, and Dynamic Multi-Pathing for Windows (DMPW).
To learn more about deploying and configuring the SFW MP in your SCOM environment, see:
Symantec Cluster Communication Management Pack
The Symantec Cluster Communication MP allows you to monitor the rules and alerts that are specific to the Group Atomic Broadcast (GAB) and Low Latency Transport (LLT) protocols. Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) and certain SFW deployments, such as SFW configured with Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) or Fast Failover, use GAB and LLT. The Symantec Cluster Communication MP helps you to identify potential issues with Symantec cluster communications in the SCOM environment.
To learn more about deploying and configuring the Symantec Cluster Communication MP in your SCOM environment, see:
 
To download Storage Foundation for Windows and Symantec Cluster Communication MPs, see:

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[OpsMgr] Give your feeling on the OpsMgr Web Console (#OpsMgr #Survey )

The OpsMgr Product team is looking for Operations Manager admins to fill out a short 10 question anonymous survey to better understand how you use the OpsMgr web console today. This will take only few minutes. We appreciate your help in building better products.


 

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Friday, July 4, 2014

[Ebook] 74-409 Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center exam Free study guide ( #Guide #Ebook #Veeam )

Veeam® is happy to provide the Microsoft community with new study guide prepared by an MVP, an MCT Orin Thomas. This study guide for Microsoft's 74-409 Server Virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center exam will take you through each of the exam objectives, helping you to prepare for and pass the examination.

http://go.veeam.com/microsoft-certification-exam.html



By reading these 8 chapters of the study guide you will learn about:
  1. Virtual Machine Settings
  2. Virtual machine storage
  3. Hyper-V Virtual Networks and virtualization networking
  4. Implementing virtual machines
  5. Managing Virtualization Hosts and Infrastructure
  6. Hyper-V Failover Clustering and Failover Clustering Roles
  7. Virtual Machine Movement
  8. Monitoring and disaster recovery

For Free download, just follow this link !


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[OpsMgr 2012 R2][Advisor] Best practices for System Center Advisor integration ( #OpsMgr2012R2 #SystemCenterAdvisor #BestPractices )

Marnix Wolf has posted his thoughts on System Center Advisor integration on a new post.



 
Direct link to post <<<< HERE >>>>
 

His post explains that System Center Advisor (#SCA #SystemCenterAdvisor ) is integrated by default in SCOM 2012 R2 and if you don't want to use it, it's better to take some actions.
 
A very short summary is that there is multiple approach to deal with it when you don't want to use SCA Integration :
  • A BAD approach : remove the SCA MPs. Bad beceause you'll remove parts of the core of SCOM 2012 R2.
  • A FAST approach : Disable the Discovery Advisor Connector Discovery for all instances of Windows Computer class.
  • A BEST approach : Disable ALL Discoveries, Monitors & Rules present in the Advisor MP.
By the way, in case you want to deal with it when you use SCA integration, just override the Frequency in seconds parameter on the 3 discovery rules to 86400. By default, it's configured to 600, also discoveries are running every 10 minutes and this is really too often !
Here are the 3 discovery rules to override :
  • Advisor Connector Discovery
  • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Advisor.Internal.SharePoint
  • Microsoft.SystemCenter.Advisor.Internal.Lync

Read the full post here to have more détails and screenshots. Thanks to Marnix Wolf for sharing his investigations.



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[Microsoft Azure] Create and manage your own Public Cloud - Free one month trial !! ( #Azure #Microsoft )

Microsoft has modified the Microsoft Azure Free Trial for all new users. You can now save 200$ and test for 1 month for free the product !

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/
 
 
 

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

[OpsMgr 2012][Powershell] Access Denied launching the InternetExplorer.Application COM using Powershell ( #Powershell #VBS #OpsMgr )

My Colleague Florian AGUETTAZ was asked to create a two state monitor based on a script checking the value of two webpages.
He first decided to create a Powershell script to create an IE connexion but he has a lot of permission issues.

MyScripts.ps1 : Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {0002DF01-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} failed due to the following error: 80070005.

CLSID {0002DF01-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} is corresponding to the IE component and the error 80070005 is an Access Denied.



Then he has tried to use VBS script in his MP and has been able to retrieve the status of both web pages.

He has made an interesting  post on his experience and give the script he has used.

http://florianaguettaz-it.blogspot.fr/2014/07/opsmgrpowershell-access-denied.html
 
 
 
 

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