So you have installed SCOM…Now what?Dieter Wijckmans

@DieterWijckmans

About me

Scug.be

Community

Motto

AgendaScop

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• What to expect from this LiveMeeting

Post instal

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• Health check• Configuration of options• Get the agents in

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• Select your management packs• Phased approach

Tips and Trick

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• Backup environment

Post Install

So now what?Installation successful!

How to start monitoring?

Is there an approach to

follow?

Preparation

Health Check Preparation Start Monitoring

Health check

Management server

Event log

Health management group

SQL

Install Agents

Install from console!

AD integration or manual?

Make sure user has admin privileges

Check firewall prereqs

Health check + rolling out the agents.

Preparation

Install agentsSelect your

management packs

Define approach

Startup monitoring

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?

Three questions to answer them all!

What?

When?

How?

Monitoring

Alerting

Notification

Select your management packs

Base

Services

Custom

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Select your management packs

Monitoring packs to assure the Basic Availability of your Server EnvironmentThese monitoring packs include:

Windows Core OSHardware manufacturer MPNetworking MP

Base

Select your management packs

Make sure your services are monitored Written and developed by the software

manufacturer and are sealed These management packs include:

DNS, DHCP, AD, Hyper-V,…

Services

Select your management packs

Custom

Custom made management packs at your organization

Unsealed and are tailored for your organization Common examples:

Override management packs In house developed applications monitoring Adapted community management packs

Start monitoring

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!

Tips and Tricks

Community Mp’s

Backup your environment

How to use the community

Quick wins to show to management

Connect to the outside world

Connect to OMS

Check out GSM

Check partners for solutions

Find ways to get knowledge

Explore new possibilities

Key Takeaways

Breath in, breath out, repeat…

Look at it as a project

Document, document, document and document

Links

Links• Scug blog: http://scug.be/dieter/• SCOM 2012 link overview blog:

SCOM 2012 overview link blog