Managing and Monitoring Critical
Infrastructure with System Center
Operations Manager (SCOM)
Dan Stolts
Chief Technology Strategist
Microsoft Corporation
Blog: http://ITProGuru.com
Twitter: @ITProGuru
Managing and Monitoring Critical Infrastructure
with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
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Take control of your IT infrastructure with the
management packs for System Center Operations
Manager (SCOM). We’ll start with a peek inside
the installation process, then dive into the system
and management packs that make it easy to
monitor all critical infrastructure. Whether you
have SharePoint, SQL Server, Exchange, File Server,
or AD, simply choose the right pack, plug it in and
get started. You can even extend the packs to
monitor Linux and other third-party products. By
the end of this session, you’ll be ready to move
from reactionary to preventative mode and use
powerful management packs to keep your key
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infrastructure humming.
Single infrastructure for end to end
management lowers deployment cost
Single user environment lowers training
and operational costs
Single knowledge and rules engine
accelerates ROI and improves processes
Simple, cost effective, and flexible
licensing eases procurement process
Data
Protection &
Recovery
Configuration
Management
Server
Compliance
End-To-End
Monitoring
(Physical &
Virtual)
Ops Mgr
Server
Ops Console
Admin Console
WFE
(Web Front End)
Servers
Infrastructure
Servers
Application
Servers
Database
Servers
Automating OpsMgr Integration of Hyper-V with Opalis
Enabling the IT Process Automation
IT Process Automation (ITPA), also known as Run Book Automation (RBA), is
the ability to orchestrate and integrate IT management tools through workflow
Take tasks like OpsMgr monitoring,
identify a Hyper-V host problem, trigger
an Opalis script to Live Migrate guest
sessions to another server
Use OpsMgr to monitor the response
time of an application, determine that
the app is not performing as quickly as
expected, spawn an Opalis policy to
provision a new guest session to
improve performance response
Data
Protection &
Recovery
Configuration
Management
Server
Compliance
End-To-End
Monitoring
(Physical &
Virtual)
Using Opalis to Provision New Guest Sessions from an OpsMgr Trigger
IT Silos
VM Provisioning Process
Event Mgmt
Service Desk
Add to
Ops Manager
Monitor
Service
request
Create
incident
Remove from
Ops Manager
Update
request
Update
request
Update & close
request
Asset/CMDB
Create
CI
Retire CI
Configuration
Deploy
Test VM Applications
Virtual
Stop VM
Clone
new VM
Security
Storage
Detach Storage
Server
Network
Detach Network Adapter
Update
properties
Verify
Application
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb310604.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb418758.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/optimizing-sharepoint.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975149.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540485.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309428.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540431.aspx