In SCOM 2012 you get also new possibilities to monitor your JEE application servers. If you are already monitoring an application server e.g. Tomcat then you will find under the authoring pane new Management Pack Templates. If you deployed BeanSpy and you are doing some deep monitoring with your JEE application servers, the next step […]
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SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 4 Monitoring Application Server
In Part 3 we deployed the agent to LINUX and started to monitor SUSE LINUX. But just want to give you some impression how and what it is going to look like. The diagram shows you disk, network card and the operating system in a nice view. There is a lot of data you get […]
SCOM 2012 – Visio and SharePoint extensions
The Operations Manager team released the Visio and SharePoint extensions for System Center Operations Manager 2012 which can be used to visualize the state of system in a dynamic diagram. These diagrams can be displayed either in Visio or SharePoint. I will test them soon… These extensions can be found here.
SCOM 2012 – Technical Documentation Download Version 1.0
Microsoft released the System Center Operations Manager 2012 Documentation Version 1.0. Authoring Guide for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager Deployment Guide for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager Operations Guide for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager System Center 2012 – Operations Manager Cmdlet Reference These guides can be found here .
SCOM 2012 – Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper Tool
Microsoft just released the new Operations Manager 2012 Sizing Helper Tool. There was a similar Tool (basically it is an Excel sheet) for SCOM 2007 R2. But now there is also some guidance on Best Practices Disk Configuration, SQL Temp DB, High Availability and Network Monitoring. This tool can be found here .
SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 3.5 Agent Deployment
While publishing part 3 I run into a problem which I would like to share. Two command which you might need… To get the LINUX agents version type: rpm -q scx To uninstall a LINUX agent type (logon as root): rpm -e scx So while I tried to deploy a LINUX agent I received the […]
SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 3 Agent Deployment
In part 2 we prepared SCOM to get ready for monitoring LINUX. Now we need to deploy the agent. So let’s get started… Here an overview of the steps we need to take: Create monitoring account Modify sudoers file Discovery wizard Redeploy certificate
SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 2 Configure SCOM 2012
In part 1 we installed LINUX and now it is time to get SCOM 2012 ready for LINUX monitoring. There are several steps we need to do: Set up a Resource Pool Import the management packs Setup name resolution Configure the RunAs accounts Assign the RunAs accounts to profiles.
SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 1 Setup SUSE 11.1
This time I wanted to try LINUX monitoring using SCOM 2012. It has been a long time since I used to setup a LINUX system and it took me a short time to remember all the basic commands. Although you don’t need that much shell hacking but it always helps if you know at least […]
System Center – SQL Server 2008 R2 Performance Tuning
In this article I would like to share some SQL Server performance tuning tricks which will give an extra boost to your System Center infrastructure. I will focus on SQL Server 2008 R2 as this is the latest SQL Server edition. My attempt was to create a generic tuning guide for System Center but because […]