Get Control of Your Environment with Operations Manager 2012

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CDH Get Control of Your Environment with Operations Manager 2012 October 2012

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Nothing's worse than the 'systems are down' phone call. We've all been there -- blissfully unaware -- that no one is receiving email, a web farm is down, or a core application isn't running. And then the phones start ringing.... But you can get control of your environment with Operations Manager 2012! • Receive notifications when systems are down. • Correct issues automatically, with Ops Manager scripts. • Perform health checks on systems. (So you'll know about problems before they show up!) Be proactive like Operations Manager. View our slide deck today! And for more information on this or other System Center topics, visit our blog at www.cdhtalkstech.com.

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C D H Get Control of Your Environment with Operations Manager 2012

October 2012

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C D H Quick Facts

About Us• 22nd Year• Grand Rapids &

Royal Oak• 30 Staff

Approach• Vendor

Independent• Non-reseller• Professional

Services Only

Partnerships• Microsoft Gold• VMware Enterprise• Citrix Silver• Novell Gold• Cisco Premier

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C D H Microsoft Gold Partner

Competencies• Four Gold• Eight Silver

Successes• Customer Excellence

Award• Virtual Technical

Specialist (VTSP)• Managed Partner• Numerous Partner

Awards

Pinpoint• Microsoft’s official

partner directory• 5-star rating

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C D H Expertise

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C D H Get Social with C/D/H

C/D/H Talks Tech C/D/H Tweets Tech

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C D H Today’s Agenda

• Brief overview of SCOM• Some real-life experiences with SCOM• SCOM configuration tips• Setting up email alerting• Monitoring services with SCOM• Using Synthetic Transactions to monitor

website performance• Network monitoring

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C D H Meet your Presenter

Erik Gilreath• Consultant with C/D/H • Currently focusing on System

Center, infrastructure and virtualization

• With C/D/H since 1999MCSE, MCITP, CNE, CCNA, CCDA, CCA, CCEA, GCWN

[email protected]

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C D H What is SCOM

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C D H What SCOM is NOT

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C D H SCOM in Real Life

• Notifications of system issues• Notifications of possible problems• Alerts for performance issues• Correct issues with the use of scripts• Generates help desk tickets

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C D H SCOM Configuration Tips

• Decide ahead of time what MPs to install– e.g. Exchange / IIS / SharePoint / etc.

• Install one MP at a time– Let it bake a week or two– Start with Windows Core– Create custom MP for each installed MP for

overrides• Alert Monitors vs. Alert Rules

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C D H Poll

What are you most interested in learning about?

• Email Alerting• Service Monitoring• Synthetic Transactions• Network Device Monitoring

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C D H Email Alerting

• Configure a Channel• Configure Subscribers• Configure Subscriptions

– Group – Class – Severity – Specific test– Etc…

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DEMO

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C D H Monitoring Services

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C D H Monitoring Services

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DEMO

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C D H Synthetic Transactions

• Real-time actions performed on monitored objects– Test website responsiveness– Monitor database performance– TCP port monitoring

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DEMO

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C D H Network Device Monitoring

What SCOM delivers• Out-of-the-box discovery,

monitoring, and reporting• Memory utilization, processor

utilization, port traffic volume, port error analysis & port packet analysis

• Server-to-network dependency discovery

• Support for large number of device vendors

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C D H Thank You

Grand Rapids15 Ionia SWSuite 270Grand Rapids, MI 49503(616) 776-1600

Royal Oak306 S. Washington Ave.Suite 212Royal Oak, MI 48067(248) 546-1800

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