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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCSM 2012 R2 – Service Manager – Design
It is not always easy to divide Low-level Design and High-Level Design. How to differentiate between high-level and low-level design depends on the entity that we refer to. When we need to design our cloud then high-level decision could be for example choice of the technology that makes our SQL Servers highly-available. But when we…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCVMM and SCOM 2012 R2 – Integrate Virtual Machine Manager and Operations Manager
Reasons for integration SCOM and VMM Performance and Resource Optimization (PRO) Tips PRO Tips are information that SCOM can provide and VMM can use it to do better optimization. For example the VMM can migrate VMs from one node to another according thresholds that VMM cannot measure (for example decrease of given SLA) or for example VMM…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCOM 2012 R2 – Install Management Packs
Import Management Packs After installation of the management servers the SCOM is only an empty skeleton (framework) and we have to fill it with the logic how to do monitoring. Management Packs are essentially filters that are giving to us only those information that we want. We can monitor by SCOM almost anything but there…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCOM 2012 R2 – Add servers to monitoring – Deploy SCOM Agents
Push SCOM agents One of the first things that should be done is to add servers to monitoring. Currently after installation we are monitoring only the servers that are running SCOM engine. See currently monitored servers. Run Discover Wizard. Add Windows computers. Select Automatic computer discovery. Management Server Action Account in our case do not…
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Building Microsoft System Center Cloud – SCOM 2012 R2 – Add another Management Server to the Management Group and create HA pool
Create highly available resource pool by adding another Management Server to an existing Management Group After installation of the first SCOM Management Server and after creation of the first Management Group you can add additional management servers and join them to the existing management group. Multiple management servers joined in a single management group ensure…