So you’ve successfully installed SCOM… Now what.
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The document discusses how to get started with monitoring after a successful installation of System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). It recommends doing an initial health check of the SCOM management server and database. It also covers installing SCOM agents, selecting appropriate management packs to monitor key components, and defining a phased approach for starting monitoring. The presentation provides tips on leveraging the community, backing up the SCOM environment, and finding quick wins to show management.
So you’ve successfully installed SCOM… Now what.
- 1. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. TechNet goes virtual So you’ve successfully installed SCOM… Now what? Dieter Wijckmans
- 2. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. About me • Dieter Wijckmans • Member of SCUG Belgium (http://www.scug.be) • System Center Technical consultant for Inovativ Belgium • Focus on System Center Operations Manager and System Center Service Manager • Mail: Dieter.Wijckmans@inovativ.be • Twitter: @DieterWijckmans
- 3. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Motto Don’t overthink… It’s doing common things uncommonly well that brings success.
- 4. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Topics Scope •What to expect from this LiveMeeting Post install •Health check •Configuration of options •Get the agents in Monitoring •Select your management packs •Phased approach Tips and Tricks •Backup environment
- 5. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Scope (what to expect) Post install: • Health Check • Agents deployment • Management packs Starting up monitoring Tips And Tricks
- 6. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. So now what? • Installation successful! • How to start monitoring? • Is there an approach to follow?
- 7. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Preparation Health Check Preparation Start Monitoring
- 8. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Health check Management server Event log Health management group SQL
- 9. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Install Agents Install from console! AD integration or manual? Make sure user has admin privileges Check firewall prereqs
- 10. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Health check + rolling out the agents.
- 11. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Preparation Install agents Select your management packs Define approach
- 12. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. STARTUP MONITORING
- 13. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Typical questions Am I monitoring yet? I need management packs? So what do I like to monitor? So what is it doing out of the box? Where do I go from here?
- 14. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Three questions to answer them all! What? When? How? Monitoring Alerting Notification
- 15. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Select your management packs Base Services Custom Amountofwork NumberofMP’s
- 16. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Select your management packs • Monitoring packs to assure the Basic Availability of your Server Environment • These monitoring packs include: – Windows Core OS – Hardware manufacturer MP – Networking MP Base
- 17. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Select your management packs Services
- 18. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Select your management packs Custom
- 19. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Start monitoring
- 20. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Watch out Don’t go too fast Make a scenario and stick with it Make sure you have some sort of request system Health check every week!
- 21. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Tips and Tricks Community Mp’s Backup your environment How to use the community Quick wins to show to management
- 22. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Links • Scug blog: http://scug.be/dieter/ • SCOM 2012 link overview blog: SCOM 2012 overview link blog
- 23. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Best of MMS (19/06/2013) Best of MMS 2013 Belgium (Antwerp) • System center content from Microsoft Management Summit brought to you by national and international known speakers and MVP’s • Exclusive content about System Center 2012 R2 • Biggest community driven System Center event in Belux • More info: http://scug.be/bestofmms
- 24. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Scugbe Windows 8 app Want to stay current on the latest Sysctr news + events of Scugbe? Download our Win8 app! Get it here
- 25. Click to edit Master title style TechNet goes virtual © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Thanks for attending Feedback: Twitter #scugbe Mail: Dieter.Wijckmans@inovativ.be Twitter: @DieterWijckmans