There is already a very good deployment guide posted on TechNet here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh457006.aspx The TechNet deployment guide provides an excellent walkthrough of installing OpsMgr 2012 for the “all in one” scenario, where all roles are installed on a single server. That is a very good method for doing simple functionality…
Grooming of the OpsDB in OpsMgr 2012 is very similar to OpsMgr 2007. Grooming is called once per day at 12:00am…. by the rule: “Partitioning and Grooming” You can search for this rule in the Authoring space of the console, under Rules. It is targeted to the “All Management Servers Resource…
My lab consists of 2 Dell Precision T7500 workstations, each configured with 96GB of RAM. These are each nodes in a Hyper-V 2012 cluster. They mount cluster shared volumes via iSCSI, some are SSD, and some are SAS RAID based disks, from a 3rd Dell Precision Workstation. One of the…
One of my Server 2012 machines kept hanging, and it was more than annoying. The system is a Dell Precision 690 Workstation, with dual Xeon CPU’s, and has the Hyper-V role installed. This machine uses an Intel storage controller and has an addition Dell SAS/SATA controller. Primarily, I use…
There are VERY specific scenarios where you might want to remove a management server from the All Management Servers Resource Pool (AMSRP) However, there are some challenges you might experience if this is done. Russ Slaten walks through the challenges and workarounds to make this happen with success: ————————-…
Jalasoft recently updated their network device simulator, which is useful for testing/demo of OpsMgr network monitoring capabilities. You can download the simulator here: http://www.jalasoft.com/xian/snmpsimulator This article will walk through the setup, configuration, and initial monitoring. You will need a computer or VM (Windows 2003 or above, including Win7 or…
This is probably the single biggest issue I find in 100% of customer environments. Year ago, I wrote about this issue, where the SCOM agent in some cases can consume above typical resource levels of memory, handles, etc. When this occurs – we will restart the agent to kill any…
I recently wrote about the Windows Server Operating System Management pack version 6.0.6989.0 HERE. In the “known issues” section of that article – I discussed that the MP is solid – except there are no performance collection rules for cluster disks, such as latency, or free space, to leverage in your…
Setting up notifications for email, IM, or command channels is almost identical to how this was configured in OpsMgr 2007 R2. This article will just serve as a walk through to the process, such as immediately after deploying OpsMgr 2012. The key difference here is that Notifications are now managed…
OpsMgr has the capability to run a synthetic transaction, to query a remote database from a watcher node. This can be used to simulate an application query to a back end database, and we have built in monitoring to set thresholds for: Connection time Query time Fetch Time We will…