[OpsMgr 2012 R2] System Center Management Packs for Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Reporting, Discovery and Monitoring

This download contains the management pack files (*.MP) required to monitor and generate reports on Data Protection Manager (DPM) Servers centrally using System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). SCOM 2012 R2 is required to be installed and running. You need to select and download only the zip file with the name ending with your language-locale settings.

Link to Microsoft site

 

Supported Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials , Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard , Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate, Windows Server 2012 Standard

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 R2
- Recommended: Minimum 8 GB RAM on the SCOM server. See OpsMgr hardware requirements.

Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2012 R2
- See System Center 2012 R2 hardware requirements.

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[OpsMgr 2012] Effective configuration dashboard : What Rule and Monitors are running on my server ? (#Dashboard #SCOM2012 #OpsMgr)

All SCOM professsionals have already been asked "What Rule and Monitors are running on my server ?" and there is no easy way to answer ! In SCOM 2007 there was a Resource kit "effective Configuration viewer" and for SCOM 2012, a new cmdlet has been introduced : Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration but the result is not user friendly !

Windows PowerShell

PS C:\> $Members = (Get-SCOMGroup –DisplayName "All Windows Computers").GetRelatedMonitoringObjects()
PS C:\> $Members | ForEach-Object { Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration –Instance $_ -Path "C:\temp\$($_.DisplayName).csv" } –RecurseContainedObjects }

Thom Davis have studied the question and created a Dashboard. Here are the 2 articles that explain how it's made :

SCOM Dashboard: What Rules and Monitors? Part 1

SCOM Dashboard: What Rules and Monitors? Part 2

His Dashboard also is able to list :

• Objects and classes on a selected computer
• Active alerting Rules and Monitors for the selected computer
• Active non-alerting Rules and Monitors for the selected computer
• Non-active Rules and Monitors for the selected computer

Download is free here and you are invited to provide feedback, comments, suggestions and dialogue !

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[OpsMgr 2012][OpsMgr 2012 R2] SCOM 2012: Overview link blog by Dieter Wijckmans

Dieter Wijckmans has posted a very good article that give a lot of links to understand SCOM 2012 infrastructure, Design and installation and much more ! :)

Direct link to the article

If you feel there are things missing or you’ve found dead links please do not hesitate to leave a comment and I will update this post.

Thanks Dieter for this overview !

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[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.

 

Direct link to Symantec site

 

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 Storage Foundation Management Pack Guide for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012

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:

Symantec Cluster Communication Management Pack Guide for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012

 

To download Storage Foundation for Windows and Symantec Cluster Communication MPs, see:

Symantec Management Packs (MP) for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 / 2012 R2

 

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[SCOM 2012] Maintenance Mode Scheduler V3 from Tim McFadden ( #MaintenanceMode #SCOM2012 )

Tim McFadden has released the SCOM 2012 Maintenance Mode Scheduler Version 3 on his blog post here.

Direct link to the post

Here are the new features in V3 that will help address this problem:

• Schedule Subscriptions for maintenance mode.  Most organizations only use the alerts from SCOM.  Now you can schedule your complex subscriptions into maintenance mode.  You can choose to send the alerts that were queued up or discard them.
• International Date format of DD/MM/YYYY now supported
• New Integrated Dashboard with the help of Tao Yang
• Removed resource pools from the list of groups
• Changed default start time to only 2 minutes ahead instead of 5
• Check to verify start time hasn’t already passed
• Minor bug fixes

    Download a free trial version on the post.

 

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[SCOM 2012 R2][Advisor] What can System Center Advisor in OpsMgr 2012 R2 do for you! ( #OpsMgr2012 #Advisor )

I've had no time to play with SCOM 2012 R2 version yet but I found an interesting article on Advisor that is now completely integrated into OpsMgr.

You can find this article here : What can System Center Advisor in OpsMgr 2012 R2 do for you! 


To complete the information on Advisor, you can also read this article from SCOMFAq : SCOM 2012 R2 – System Center Advisor Overview

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