[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.

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.