Jalasoft Xian Network Manager Io for Operations Manager 2007

Jalasoft Xian Network Manager Io for Operations Manager 2007 is an enterprise network monitoring solution, designed to extend the management infrastructure of Microsoft Operations Manager using sets of Smart Management Packs (SMP).

http://www.jalasoft.com/jalasoftweb/jsp/products/xianio

SMP for Cisco Routers
SMP for Cisco Switches
SMP for PIX Firewalls
SMP for VPN Concentrators
SMP for F5 Big IP
SMP for APC UPS
SMP for HP Procurve Switches
SMP for Linux Servers
SMP for Solaris Servers
SMP for Network Devices
SMP for VMWare ESX/Virtual Center

Operations Manager 2007 now is available on MSDN

System Center Operations Manager 2007 is available for download for those with MSDN subscription.

10 Steps guide to configure Certificate based authentication between Agents and Management Server

Mohamed saad for Synergy professional service “trainning company” prepare this guide after deployed scom at a company at Egypt.
The problem was the customer has more than server not a member in the domain “LAN – DMZ server”.
The customer needs to monitor these servers by SCOM 2007 but without using OpsMgr Gateway server “don’t need to install any component on the DMZ servers – also Gateway server is not required in the LAN”.

based on a phone call , the problem has been solved by some guides and we prepare a guide about this.
We named this guide as 10 steps guide to configure Certificate based authentication between Agents and Management Server to be available to public.
http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/CertificateOpsMgr2007.pdf

Troubleshooting Operations Manager 2007 Computer and Device Management Wizard

• Check if all Operations Manager servers are running in RMS and all Management Servers
• check the communication between all Operations Manager servers
• check if you have firewall between Management server and the target machine
• check if the agent is installed "MOM 2005 agent or OpsMgr 2007 agent"check if the discovery account is locked out , and has administrative rights on the tareget server or workstation
• check if SQL Service Broker is or has been disabled by useing the following SQL query

SELECT is_broker_enabled FROM sys.databases WHERE name = 'OperationsManager'

if the value 0 , enable SQL Service Broker by stop the SDK, Config, and Health Services on the RMS, the Heath Service on any secondary management server, the execute the following statement:
ALTER DATABASE OperationsManager SET ENABLE_BROKER

If all the above was checked, do the following steps:

• Run the discovery with different accounts
• Restart All Operations manager service on RMS and management servers
• Restarted the RMS Server and other management servers
• Restarted the Database Server
• Put the RMS Server into maintenance mode, and then removing it from maintenance mode

thanks to Mike Baiano and Cameron Fuller

Time period of a performance views in the Operations Manager 2007 Web console

Due to the performance views in Web console does not work off the cache, the only the most recent data are shown.

The Operations Manager 2007 Web console display only last 3 hours

Bug in Dell MP for Operations Manager 2007

many Operations Manager 2007 administrators get a warning in the local OpsMgr Event Log as below:
Source: Health Service ScriptEvent
ID: 995
Type: Warning
Description: "Muralidhar: Before Creating Unknown"
and this error is followed by
Source: Health Service Script
Event ID: 995
Type: Warning
Description: "Muralidhar: After Creating Unknown"
This events appear every 15 minutes
To get which MP cause the problem execute the following command against the ops manager Database.
select * from managementPack where MPXML LIKE '%Muralidhar%'
It is dell Management Pack

Installing and configuring Client Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

Three levels of client monitoring are available in Operations Manager 2007:

Crash and Hang monitoring occurs when client systems are monitored for applications that stop responding.The Crash and Hang level of monitoring is configured using the Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) feature in Operations Manager 2007 and does not require that a Management Pack has been installed.

Collective Client Monitoring gathers health information from all clients that have a client operating system Management Pack installed. This information is stored in the Operations Manager database and can be used to create reports that display trend information.

Business Critical Client Monitoring is the most extensive monitoring available for Windows clients. This monitoring level gathers health information about designated individual client computers. Like server monitoring, each client with this type of monitoring has individual monitors and alerts that an administrator can use to maintain a constant state of operational functionality.

The Windows client operating system Management Packs are intended for use in gathering data on client computers or individually monitoring designated mission-critical client computers.

To Installing and configuring Client Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 you can download the full docuemnt from the following link
http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/ClientOS-MP-OPSMGR2007.pdf
or contact me @ Tarek_877@hotmail.com to get a copy

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Training Videos

Microsoft provide ELearning solution for System Center Operations manager by many ways to understand Operations manager.

Download the entire set of the System Center Operations Manager 2007 Training Videos (in .wmv format) for an offline viewing experience. Version 1.0 download size: 185.6 MB.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1276a840-671f-4452-98c7-5599c0d3ff9c&DisplayLang=en

A List of available operations manager video as below:
Add Monitoring with a Management Pack Template
Configure Client Monitoring
Import Management Packs
Management Pack Templates
Use the Reporting Space
Target Monitoring (Targeting Management Pack Objects)
What's new for Operations Manager 2005 Authors
Active Directory Integration
Adjusting Monitors with Overrides
The Administration Space
Command Shell Introduction
Setting up Notifications
Create User Roles
Diagnostics and Recoveries
About Groups
Building Management Packs (Management Pack Concepts)
About Rules
About Tasks
About Views (Add New Views of Monitoring)
Computer and Device Discovery
Use the My Workspace Space
The Monitoring Space
Distributed Applications
About MonitorsUsing the Operations Console

ACS Collector and a Gateway server on the same Box

Joseph Chan from Operations Manager product team updated me and the newsgroup with pretty workaround to install ACS on the same box with a Gateway server.

Gateway server can be installed on a standalone server or member server.

Sometimes when there are many server in your DMZ needed to be monitored and managed by Operations manager, and you don’t need to open many ports from DMZ to your LAN, so you need to install a Gateway server.

When you need to consolidate your security event by collecting it to a centralized location you need to install ACS Collector.

Problem: install ACS collector with less opened ports to LAN

Solution: promote the Gateway server located in your DMZ to be a domain controller, install ACS collector, created a computer account manually, and map a certificate to the created computer accounts. Start working with ACS as normal.


Source: Joseph Chan

You can install ACS Collector on a Gateway server.
However, the ACS Collector also has dependency on AD, so you have to promote your Gateway server to a Domain Controller - which can be a completely isolated and separate domain.
Since your agents are in a workgroup, you will need to use certificate auth between them and the Gateway+Collector box.
ACS needs AD to map certificate to machine accounts.

Professionality You Can Respect!

Pete Zerger and Anders Bengtsson collaborated on a guide about Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) in Operations Manager 2007.
The guide is really perfect to get it; you can download the guide from the following link
http://systemcenterforum.org/wp-content/uploads/AgentlessExceptionMonitoring.pdf
We have to say thanks to Pete Zerger and Anders Bengtsson

Installing and configuring Dell Management Pack Version 3.0 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

The Dell Management Pack enables SC Operations Manager to more accurately depict the status of Dell systems on a defined network segment. This improved representation, which includes the receipt of alerts and pre-failure alerts with the ability to drill down to each hardware component from the overall Dell hardware health, allows Dell customers to assess, respond to, and better insure availability of Dell systems monitored in the SC Operations Manager environment. In addition to improved availability, the Management Pack enhances the ability to monitor and manage the hardware in a single management solution.

Dell Management Pack Version 3.0 Features:

1. Displays alerts for events received from Dell OpenManage Server Administrator (including the Server Administrator Storage Management Service) for Dell PowerEdge systems.
2. Discovers and monitors Dell printers “Dell printers that support Community-based Simple Network Management Protocol Version 2 (SNMPv2c). The Management Pack does not process SNMP traps.
3. Provides Diagram views, Alert Views, and State Views.
4. Provides Tasks for launching Server Administrator, the Dell Remote Access Controller (DRAC),and the Dell Printer Console.
5. Groups PowerEdge systems (Modular and Monolithic) running Server Administrator so that the systems are easily identifiable and manageable.
6. Groups Dell servers that do not have Server Administrator installed or with unresponsive instrumentation service as Unknown.
7. Provides Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) tasks for Dell systems with the baseboard management controller (BMC).
8. Allows you to customize and configure your Dell devices for discovery and monitoring.

To Installing and configuring Dell Management Pack Version 3.0 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 you can download the full docuemnt from the following link
http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/DellMP3OpsMgr2007.pdf
or contact me @ Tarek_877@hotmail.com to get a copy

Dell Management Pack 3.0

The Dell Management Pack enables the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to discover and monitor the status of Dell systems and printers on a defined network segment.

Download the Dell Management Pack Version 3.0 from the Dell Support site
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R158716&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=212055

Operations Manager 2007 wiki

Today, I am a Memebr of System center Operations Manager 2007 wiki
The Wiki was create by Maarten Goet
thank you Maarten

System center Operations Manager 2007 wiki
http://mom-wiki.c2ict.com/start

Installing and configuring Operating System Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007

The Operating System Management Packs consists of 3 MP:

• Microsoft Windows Server Library “for Windows 2000 and 2003”
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003
  
  Operating System Management Pack discovers and monitors logical and physical objects such as operating systems, logical disks, physical disks, and processors.
  
  To Installing and configuring Operating System Management Packs for Operations Manager 2007 you can download the full docuemnt from the following link
  http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/OperatingSystem-MP-OpsMgr2007.pdf
  
  or contact me @ Tarek_877@hotmail.com to get a copy

Configure database grooming settings for a Management Group

Grooming maintain the performance of the Operations Manager database by managing its size through the deletion of unnecessary records.

The default grooming setting for all record types is data older than 7 days.

Use the following procedure to specify the grooming for the Operations Manager database of Operations Manager 2007 Management Group:

1. Log on to the computer as Operations Manager Administrators role for the Operations Manager 2007 Management Group.
2. In the Operations Console, click the Administration button then Settings
   Choose database grooming and right-click and click Properties.
3. Select a record type you want to change, and then click Edit.

for more details download the document frm the link below or contact me at Tarek_877@hotmail.com to get a copy.
http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/database-grooming-MG.pdf

System Center Operations Manager 2007 Technical Walkthrough

Want to get a better understanding of how to architect, deploy, administer, and operate Operations Manager 2007? Walk through this online course designed to help you get ramped on using Operations Manager 2007.

http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/opsmgr/evaluation/techwalk/course/detect.html

Installing and configuring Active Directory Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007

Really Microsoft Operations manager 2007 become a fantastic product.

After checking the active directory managemnet pack for Operations Manager 2007, i found many big differnce from MOM 2005

To Installing and configuring Active Directory Management Pack Guide for Operations Manager 2007 you can download the full docuemnt from the following link http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/Opsmgr-MP-AD.pdf
or contact me @ Tarek_877@hotmail.com to get a copy

Installing and Configuring Operations Manager 2007 Reporting

The Operations Manager 2007 Reporting has been enhanced to meet the customer requirements.

Operations Manager 2007 provides the following capabilities with Reporting:

1. Data can be sent directly to either the Operations Manager 2007 database or the Reporting Data Warehouse, or both.
2. Reporting data is available with no latency.
3. Reports are displayed in the Operations Manager 2007 Console.
4. Data is pre-aggregated, summarized, and indexed. Reports covering long periods of time display quickly.

To Installing and Configuring Operations Manager 2007 Reporting you can download the full docuemnt from the following link
http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/Installing-Reporting.pdf
or contact me @ Tarek_877@hotmail.com to get a copy

Install and configure Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Pack (FFSMP) for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005

Download the MP from Management Pack Catalog
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/mom/catalog/catalog.aspx?vs=2005

Download and install Windows Scripting Host version 5.6 for Windows Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=887fce82-e3f5-4289-a5e3-6cbb818623aa&displaylang=en
if the operator console installed on windows XP install Windows Scripting Host version 5.6 for Windows XP and Windows 2000
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C717D943-7E4B-4622-86EB-95A22B832CAA&displaylang=en

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is required to run some script

Use MOM 2005 Administrator Console to import the management pack
Open Administrator Console
Navigate to the Management Packs
Use Import/Export Management Option to run import wizard.

Run attribute discovery to accelerate the discovery of the servers running forefront
Open the Administrator Console.
Navigate to Administration and expand it.
Navigate to Computers\Agent Managed Computers. These are the systems that have had agents installed.
Select all the computers in the right pane (the agent systems), and then right-click. A shortcut menu appears.
Select Run Attribute Discovery Now

Configure Notification Groups to receive forefront alerts
Open administrator console
Navigate to management packs and expand it.
Go to notifications then notifications groups
Select Microsoft Forefront Security Administration Group and right-click and all the required operator for forefront alters.

Install Forefront Server Security Administrator

modify the Forefront Server Security Administrator path
Open the Administrator Console.
Navigate to management packs and expand it.
in Tasks/Microsoft Forefront Security/client console / Forefront Server Security Administrator
Right-click and choose Properties, then choose details tab and add the path of task command line.

Configure the directory path to the Application Log Provider
Open the MOM 2005 Administrator Console.
Navigate to the Management Packs\Providers container.
Select the Application Log type called Forefront Security ProgramLog or Forefront SP ProgramLog, depending on which one requires a new path.
Right-click and then select Properties.
Click the Directories tab.
Configure the directories by update the current or add new path

How to install ACS Reports in OpsMgr 2007

Open OpsMgr CD and locate the folder ReportModels\acs.
Copy the folder to C:\ACS.
Copy ReportingConfig.exe from CD\SupportTools to C:\ACS.
Start, Run , CMD, the go to the folder c:\ACS
Run
UploadAuditReports [ACSDBServer] http://[opsMgrReportingserver]/ReportServer C:\acs
example:
UploadAuditReports TAR-OPSMGR01 http://TAR-OPSMGR01/ReportServer C:\acs

Install Microsoft Operations manager on Microsoft SQL server versions

During the installation of MOM 2005 on MS SQL server, you may get some installation problem
i will address some of this problem in this post
download the document from the following link
http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/MOM2005-SQL2005.pdf