SCOM 2012: Overview link blog
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This post will be my (and hopefully yours) one stop to post all the relevant info to SCOM 2012. I will try to generate an overview of all the different steps you need to start from scratch and continue to build your environment to a level that suites your environment.
If you feel there are things missing or you’ve found dead links please do not hesitate to leave a comment and I will update this post. This post has grown out of my favourite list of SCOM related topics and info I found on forums, technet and blogs.
Note:
- I’ll sometimes post more than 1 link at a topic so you can combine the different blogposts to get the bigger picture.
- Most of the info is relevant for SCOM 2012 and SCOM 2012 SP1 (if there’s specific info for a specific version it will be pointed out.)
- This is a link post to relevant info I found on the web. All credits and copyright belong to the respective authors.
General Information:
This section lists all links that will give you a general overview of SCOM.
- Getting started with SCOM
- Getting to know the key concepts of SCOM
- Technet library with info for SCOM
- Download the most up to date guides for scom
- Forums:
- System Center Self study guide part 5 Operations manager
- Opsmgr 101 document by Kevin Holman
- FULL list of Technical Documentation for System Center 2012 Operations Manager
Design and Topology
This section lists all links that will help and guide you to make a proper design and take the correct decisions concerning topology
- Official SCOM product team design guide
- Minimal requirements for SCOM 2012
- Minimal requirements for SCOM 2012 SP1
- Clean installation of SCOM 2012
- Supported firewall scenarios
- Scom 2012 sizing helper calculator
How to install
This section lists all links to the install walkthroughs and possible issues.
- walkthrough single server install
- Installation of distributed servers
- Walkthrough to install first management server
- Walkthrough to install additional management servers
- How to Install the Operations Console
- How to Configure the Operations Console to Use SSL When Connecting to a Reporting Server
- How to Install the Operations Manager Web Console
- Web Console Security in Operations Manager
- How to Install the Operations Manager Reporting Server
- Using SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Groups with System Center 2012 SP1 – Operations Manager
- Quick start depoyment guide SCOM 2012 (Kevin Holman)
- My installation failed. What log files do I read and where can I find them?
- Upgrade guide from SCOM 2007 to SCOM 2012
- Official info on upgradign from SCOM 2007 to SCOM 2012
- Different upgrade paths to SCOM 2012
- Getting and keeping the SCOM agent on a Domain Controller
- Installation of SCOM2012 SP1 walkthrough
- Jan Meivenne (SCUGbe): http://scug.be/jan/2012/12/21/system-center-2012-sp1-is-rtm-how-do-i-upgrade-my-scom-environment/
- Stefan Stranger: Installing a new OpsMgr 2012 the fast way
Configuring scom
This section lists all links to help you quickly setup scom after you have succesfully installed it.
- Setup initial monitoring after installation
- Managing Discovery and agents
- Configuring Agentless monitoring in SCOM
- Managing access in SCOM
- Different accounts needed by SCOM
- Different agent installation methods
- Configuring and understanding heartbeat failures
- How to run tasks in SCOM
- How to configure notifications
- How to configure command notification in SCOM 2012 with Powershell Script
- How to test notifications
- Run a powershell script through notifications
- Why enable the SCOM proxy agent
Specific configuration
This section lists all the different aspects of SCOM that need additional installation or configuration
Dashboards
ACS
- Deploying ACS and ACS Reporting
- How to install ACS
- ACS series by Stefan Roth:
- Part1: http://blog.scomfaq.ch/2013/02/18/scom-2012-sp1-part-1-audit-collection-services-acs-setup/
- Part2: http://blog.scomfaq.ch/2013/02/18/scom-2012-sp1-part-2-audit-collection-services-acs-cross-platform-setup/
- Part3: http://blog.scomfaq.ch/2013/02/19/scom-2012-sp1-part-3-audit-collection-services-acs-testing-cross-platform-logging/
- Planning your ACS environment and explanation of the different parts of installation
- ACS capacity planning tips
- ACS dbase and disk sizing calculator for SCOM 2007 (can also be used for SCOM 2012 & SP1)
- How to enable ACS forwarders
- Monitor ACS performance
- Using ACS across trusted boundaries
- How to enable ACS role on Gateway server
- How to change the retention period of the ACS dbase
APM (Application Performance Monitoring)
- What is APM?
- All you need to know about APM transactions
- I’ve deployed APM now what?: Summary for Geeks
- How to configure Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (Tutorial by Kevin Greene):
- Discovering the Application Performance console (Kevin Greene):
- APM Throttling settings
- Forum to ask questions about APM
Gateway configuration
- Deploying a Gateway Server
- 10 reasons to use a Gateway Server
- Quick guide: Monitoring non-domain members with SCOM2012 (stefan stranger)
- Forum to ask questions about installing gateway servers
- Configure Gateway server / agent failover with PowerShell
- How to chain or cascade Gateways to monitor servers accross multipl trust boundaries
- Avoid orphaned Gateway servers with Powershell
Network Monitoring
- Official Technet article about Network Monitoring
- Network devices supported for discovery by SCOM
- Download excel sheet with devices with extended monitoring capability
- How to discover network devices in operations manager
- How Network Device Discovery works
- Tuning Network Monitoring
- Runas Account for network monitoring in SCOM
- Quick setup guide network monitoring
- Network Device No Response Ping in Pending Management
- Forum to ask questions about Network monitoring
Management pack basics
This section lists all the links to give you the basics about management packs
- Technet Management pack Basics
- Understand the Management pack Life Cycle
- Different authoring tools
- Screencast: Scom Management pack Tuning Wars Mission briefing
- Management pack formats
- SCOM 2012: Authoring options
- Download official management pack guide
- Create your first management pack for SCOM
- Difference between rules and monitors
- Is there a management pack for it? A list of non MS management packs.
- Community management pack Catalog (SystemCenterCentral)
- Forum to ask questions about SCOM management packs
Management pack advanced
This section liste all the links to the more advance management pack tips and tricks.
- The best practices poster regarding targetting
- How to seal a management pack
- How to monitor events logged by another computer or cluster
- Enable agent proxy via management pack
Community Management packs
A list of must have community management packs to increase your productivity and solve some gaps and functionalities in scom.
Note: These management packs are written by members of the community so no warranty is given. Test before you use in production!
Integration possibilities
This section lists links to different integration possibilities between the different System Center products.
- Official SCOM integration guide
- Monitoring SCCM 2012 with SCOM 2012
- Managing and monitoring DPM 2012 with SCOM 2012 part 1
- Managing and monitoring DPM 2012 with SCOM 2012 part 2
- How to connect VMM 2012 with SCOM 2012
- Using Scom Connectors
Usefull blogs and sources for this list (In random order of importance)
- Official Scom / mom team blog
- Cameron Fuller (Catapult Systems)
- Kevin Holman
- Marnix Wolf
- Authoringfriday
- Kevin Greene
- Bob Cornelissen
- Jonathan Almquist (old blog + new blog)
- Christopher Keyaert
- Jan Meirvenne
- Tao Yang
- System center support team blog (old)
- Stefan Stranger
- Stefan Roth
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Tips & Tricks
- How to change the retention period of the datawarehouse db
- Tuning Tip – Turning off some over-collection of events
- Update custom fields of alerts generated by monitors through subscriptions
- Collection of Powershell scripts for scom
- Adding a product key after the eval period expired
- Is my datawarehouse running behind.
- Performance optimizations for Operations Manager
- Database maintenance jobs and processes in SCOM
- Authoring console can’t find reference mp
- Download the SCOM 2012 specific Visio Stencils
- How to change port of SCOM reporting
- Comparison of the PowerShell command let sets of SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012
- Installing both SCOM 2007 and SCOM 2012 consoles on 1 machine
- Updating SCOM alerts using Orchestrator
- Backup unsealed management packs
- Resolve Failed to store data in the Data Warehouse
- Automate the SharePointMP.config configuration with Powershell
- Migrate Subscriptions between different SCOM environments
- Create enhanced HTML mail notifications
- SCOM speak powershell script: Let scom read the alerts out loud on a remote computer
- Sync management packs across the System Center environment
- Cannot delete agents on cluster nodes
- SCOM 2007 daily health check script
- Scom timed script vs windows task scheduler
- Scom Tasks collection management pack by Stefan Roth
Cool Showcases with SCOM
Partner solutions for SCOM (in random order)
- Derdack: Receiving SCOM alerts on handheld devices
- Opslogix: Management packs for Oracle, Blackberry, Capacity intelligent planning,…
- Veeam: Management packs for VmWare
- Bridgeworks: Management packs for Hyper-V, VMware, mysql,…
- Squared-up: simplified web and mobile access for scom
- Savision Live maps: Creating interactive dashboards
- Infront: Different management packs to extend scom