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

Upgrading from evaluation version of System Center Operations Manager 2007 to the full product version

You can upgrade the 180-day evaluation version of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 to the full product version. To do this, you do not have to upgrade individual files.

This upgrade operation requires that you use a Microsoft Select CD image that is available as part of the Microsoft volume licensing agreement.

The Select CD image includes a Licensing Wizard to update the license.

To upgrade the 180-day evaluation version of Operations Manager 2007 to the full product version, follow these steps:

• Download the Select CD image for Operations Manager 2007. To do this, visit the following Microsoft Web site: https://licensing.microsoft.com
• Extract the Select CD image.
• Locate the following folder in the location where you extracted the Select CD image:\SupportTools\system_architectureNote The system_architecture placeholder represents the architecture of the computer that you are using.

For example, this placeholder should be i386 on an x86-based computer.

• Run the LicenseWizard.msi file, and then follow the instructions in the Licensing Wizard.
  Microsoft KB 937826

Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability

The official tool for performance and scalability planning will be System Center Capacity Planner (SCCP).
SCCP combines the best practices presented in this document along with performance modeling and simulation to build detailed sizing guidance specific to your environment

you can use this document which describes performance and scalability guidelines to consider when planning a Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 deployment.

Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability White Paper
http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/3/6/d3633fa3-ce15-4071-be51-5e036a36f965/OM2007_PerfScal.doc

Understanding Audit collection server Database table “Dtconfig Table”

Dtconfig Table contain an important setting to configure ACS collector and database, I will list all this setting and the default values and how to work with this table.

Convert timestamps to local time
Use this value to use the local time to stamp the collected event
1 = use local time
0= use UTC time

Database schema version
This is the schema version value, it is now equal 6

Perform index maintenance
Use this value to configure the Database to perform index maintenance
1= the option is enabled.
0= the option is disabled.

Table switch offset in seconds since midnight UTC
Use this value to configure when the ACS will use another table to store the collected events since midnight UTC
The value 82800 = 82800/ 60*60 = 23 UTC
This value 82800 = 2:00 AM Egypt daylight time.
The table will be changed at 2:00 AM but we did not configure the interval until now.

Table switch interval in seconds
Use this value to configure the interval between every table
The value 86400 = 24 hours, so the table will be switched every day “24 hours” at 2:00 AM Egypt daylight time.

Number of partitions
Use this value to configure how many tables will be available in the Database to store the security events.
The value 15 = the ACS will store the security in 14 table and other will be running.
This value must be configure with the registry key below
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AdtServer\Parameters
EventRetentionPeriod “This vale was configured in hours”

Example:
For Number of partitions = 15 and Table switch interval in seconds = 86400 the EventRetentionPeriod will equal to 14 *24 = 336 in decimal.

For Number of partitions = 31 and Table switch interval in seconds = 86400 the EventRetentionPeriod will equal to 30 *24 = 720 in decimal.

How the OpsMgr 2007 Agent Deployment affect the managed system

source: Operations Manager blogger by Kerrie Meyler and Cameron Fuller

During installationof the SCOM agent the following ranges of impacts on the system:

Processor: 29-37% increase during installation
Disk: 18-19 additional pages per second
Disk: 154 MB data (%programfiles%\System Center Operations Manager 2007)Network: 11 MB data sent to the system during installation
Memory: 22 MB less available memory

After the installation was complete
Processor: 3-4%
Disk: 0.5 additonal pages per second
Disk: 156 MB data (%programfiles%\System Center Operations Manager 2007)
Network: .5-.6 MB/min additional traffic
Memory: 11 MB less available memory

for more details about the Test check the link below:
http://ops-mgr.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!3D3B8489FCAA9B51!158.entry

Configuring Audit Collection Services !

After Installing and Configuring Audit Collection Services, I found some special setting will help the OpsMgr administrator to control ACS service Behavior , my installation document of ACS was updated with this items:

• CONTROLLING ACS QUEUE
• ACS COLLECTOR REGISTRY SETTING
• ACS ADMINISTRATION
• AUDIT COLLECTION SERVICES NOTES

You can download the full docuemnt from the following link

http://tarek.ismail.googlepages.com/InstallingandConfiguringAuditCollect.pdf

or contact me @ tarek_877@hotmail.com to get a copy

Have a Nice Day with System Center Operation manager 2007

Egypt With System Center Operations Manager 2007

Today, i have finished the installtion and Configuration of System Center Operations manager in Suez Cement Group

the Operations manager server monitor more than 30 Servers.

I think this the First Installtion of SCOM 2007 In Egypt

Who do it Before Me in EGYPT?