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Operations Manager 2007 R2
Beyond Monitoring
Cameron Fuller
Principal Consultant
What does Operations Manager do?
Single Pane of Glass
• From multiple
sources
– Microsoft
products
– Network devices
– Hardware (Dell,
IBM, HP)
– Unix / CrossPlat
– 3rd party products
Proactive Monitoring, Health
Modeling, and more…
That’s all nice but where’s the…
Agenda
Operations Dashboard
Service Level Dashboard
Visio Integration
Live Maps
SCCM Dashboard
Operations Manager Dashboard
• What’s it good for?
– Presenting multiple
views in the OpsMgr
console
• What is it not good
for?
– Intuitive state view
– Graphs, Charts, etc
• Pre-req’s?
– OpsMgr
Operations
Manager
Dashboard Demo
Service Level Dashboard 2.0
• What’s it good for?
– Tracking SLA’s
– Overview of health
• What is it not good for?
– Health state for large
numbers of items
– Graphs and gauges
other than SLA related
• Pre-req’s?
– SharePoint or WSS 3.0
Service Level
Dashboard Demo
Visio Integration
• What’s it good for?
– State views
• What is it not good
for?
– Charts, graphs
• Pre-req’s?
– Visio 2010,
Sharepoint 2010
Enterprise
Visio Integration
Demo
Savision Live Maps
• What’s it good for?
– Really good for state
views
• What is it not good
for?
– Charts, graphs
• Pre-req’s?
– IIS, OpsMgr
Savision Live
Maps Demo
SCCM Dashboard – For OpsMgr?
• What’s it good for?
– Charts, Graphs and
Gauges
• What is it not good
for?
– State Views
• Pre-req’s?
– Sharepoint 2007 or
WSS 3.0
SCCM Dashboard
Demo
What does all this mean?
Think about these as
different tools in
your toolbelt
• You may need one
• You may need
more than one
Ideas on bringing these together
OpsMgr Dashboard
Savision Live Maps
SCCM Dashboard
Quality links on this topic (To Be Blogged)
OpsMgr Console and Dashboards: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/09/scomand-dashboards-part-ii-scom.html
Visio Integration: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/09/scom-and-dashboardspart-iii-visio-2010.html
Live Maps: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/10/scom-and-dashboards-part-ivsavision.html
Live Maps and DA’s: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2010/07/30/takingdistributed-applications-to-the-next-level-with-savision-live-maps.aspx,
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2010/09/14/taking-distributedapplications-to-the-next-level-with-savision-live-maps-%E2%80%93-part-2.aspx
Live Maps and network monitoring:
http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2009/09/04/using-tcp-port-monitorsdistributed-applications-and-savision-live-maps-to-monitor-redundant-network-links.aspx
SCCM dashboard for OpsMgr: http://www.scom2k7.com/how-to-create-a-custom-scomdashboard-to-show-key-management-group-information/
SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and OpsMgr:
http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/10/scom-and-dashboards-part-v-using.html
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