SCOM 2012 Design questions?

While design SCOM 2012 , what are important things to be noticed ? like Environment to be monitored , Budget , Network Bandwith , Application to be monitor ..etc
Like this any other important things to be noticed. 

For SCOM Design, you can check below links
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj593271.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/04/13/opsmgr-2012-design-guide.aspx
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  • SCOM 2012 design plan

    Hi
    Am designing SCOM2012 R2 for monitoring 300 servers and 50 network devices . Client asks me to install server monitoring, network monitoring,ACS in only two servers since the monitored devices are very less . I would to know that enabling all this 3
    services in two servers will work smoothly. What would be the best design solution for this requirement ?
    All monitored servers are 2012 R2 and there is a separate high end DB server is hosting SCOM DBs'.All servers are running from single cloud location.

    For SCOM Design, you can check below links
    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj593271.aspx
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/04/13/opsmgr-2012-design-guide.aspx
    Please remember, if you see a post that helped you please click "Vote As Helpful" and if it answered your question, please click "Mark As Answer"
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  • SCOM 2012 Design including DR

    I have been spending quite a bit of time researching HA in SCOM 2012 and have seen other posters being pointed in the direction of best practice docs etc but none seem to talk about hyper-v replica.  My initial implementation will consist of about 300
    servers to be monitored, the sizing tool recommends 2 MS and a single SQL server hosting the OPS and DW SQL DB.
    This seems a reasonable configuration but I need to incorporate a DR solution into this.  We have a Hyper-V 2008 cluster in DC1 which is replicated to DC2 which is out DR site.  I am proposing hosting all of the servers on the Hyper-V cluster,
    in the event of DC1 going down my plan is to bring the replicated servers up in DC2.
    Does this seem like a reasonable solution or am I missing something?  Are there any limitations to this design that I am not seeing or any problems I am likely to run into?
    Thanks

    A good idea is to backup the operational database daily, and ship that backup using whatever tool or process you want. If you care about historical data, then I suggest setting up log shipping or similar for the data warehouse database.
    In terms of DR for the MG, my preferred way to go about this is to have warm MS's in another DC, completely installed and ready to go. Depending on how "mission critical" monitoring is, this is about as good as it gets for DR. If monitoring is
    number 1 priority mission critical to your business, then I suggest 2 MG's - one in each DC - and multi-homing your Windows agents and monitoring all other devices (network, UNIX/Linux) from both MG's at all times. When one fails, there is literally no outage
    for those monitored instances in the DC that is still alive, and no additional DR procedures are really necessary in this case.
    In my experience, monitoring is not mission critical. This is not my opinion, but the opinion of all the organizations I've worked with. There is a cost to DR, and having a completely HA scenario with absolutely no down time for those instances that are
    still "alive", usually it simply isn't worth the cost and administrative overhead.
    A simple backup and move job of the operational database, and a "seed" management server in another DC is typically the design I would suggest.
    Jonathan Almquist | SCOMskills, LLC (http://scomskills.com)

  • SCOM 2012 design document

    HI team,
     can any one please share the design document.

    Hi,
    I would like to share this document with you. Hope it helps.
    SC2012_OpsMgr_Design_and_Planning_Guide.docx
    http://blogs.technet.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/telligent-evolution-components-attachments/01-4616-00-00-03-49-19-33/SC2012_5F00_OpsMgr_5F00_Design_5F00_and_5F00_Planning_5F00_Guide.docx
    Niki Han
    TechNet Community Support

  • SCOM 2012 R2 HA design but using SQL 2014 Standard edition

    Hi All,
    I want to deploy SCOM 2012r2 with a HA design (but have constraints!)
    Plan is two management servers with all roles to each (fresh deployment so 2012r2 RU5)
    SQL servers need to be 2014 standard edition due to licensing and cost constraints.
    Design is to be split between two datacentres that are fibre connected and sub 3ms latency
    Plan was to have a Management Server and a SQL server at each location.
    Each location has a dedicated SAN but SAN replication is not an option.
    What are my SQL options for the DB??
    AlwaysOn FCI is not preferable as it gives a single point of failure due to shared storage requirement.
    I read Database mirroring is not a supported config but this isn't Microsoft direct info just blog post, is this correct.
    Which leaves me with log shipping, is this supported and the best option??
    Would be great to get advice on what works well in the field with a contraint of having to use SQL Standard edition!
    Thanks
    James

    Hi,
    No additional licenses are needed for management servers or SQL Server technology.
    System Center 2012 R2 licensing
    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Licensing/product-licensing/system-center-2012-r2.aspx#tab=2
    Reference:
    SCOM 2012 R2 HA options with Server 2012 and SQL 2012
    https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCOM-2012-R2-HA-options-540beb95
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  • SCOM 2012 R2 Server Hardening Question

    Hi All,
    With reference to http://blogs.technet.com/b/operationsmgr/archive/2009/06/15/new-security-hardening-guide-for-operations-manager-2007-r2-and-windows-server-2008.aspx 
    I would like to know is there any update for SCOM 2012 R2 on Windows Server 2012 R2? What would be the process and where can I get the SCW file 2012 R2 platform?
    Thanks & Regards, Kedar

    I cannot find the update for this SCW definition file for 2012 R2 either. Anyway, you could edit the policy file on you own based on needs.
    Juke Chou
    TechNet Community Support

  • Question on upgrading to SCOM 2012 R2 form SCOM 2012 SP1

    Hello!
    I planned upgrade to SCOM 2012 R2 form SCOM 2012 SP1.
    Should I install any or last update rollup package to my SCOM 2012 SP1, before upgrading to SCOM 2012 R2 ?

    It is highly recommend that you has install most updated CU before upgrade SCOM 2012 sp1 1 to SCOm 2012 R2 but it is not necessary.  You should view NEPA PFE Team blog that demostrate how to upgrade SCOM 2012 SP1 with CU4 to SCOM 2012 R2.
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/nepapfe/archive/2013/11/26/upgrading-scom-2012-sp1-to-scom-2012-r2.aspx
    Roger

  • SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring - RPCBIND, RPCIDMAP, RPCSTAT services not running

    We are running SCOM 2012 SP1 and added a test Linux server running Red Hat Enterprise 6.3.  SCOM is reporting that the server is in Critical health because the following three services are not running.
    1) Process Rpcbind Service Health - Rpcbind Mapper Not Running
    2) Process Rpcidmap Service Health - NFSv4 ID Name Mapper Not Running
    3) Process Rpcstat Service Health - NSM Status Monitor Not Running
    My question is that are these services required to be running in order for SCOM to monitor the Linux servers properly?  If yes, can you please give brief explaination as to why so I can explain that to our Linux Administrator.  The Linux Administrator
    is saying that we do not run these services on any of the Linux servers because they are not needed.  If infact these services are not needed, how can I have SCOM ignore the critical error messages?  Thanks

    Yup, generally running. I'm assuming you've done a basic install of RHEL 6. All processes listed above are enabled by default on a RHEL 6 install if you take the default settings. If someone is just getting started you can pretty much guarantee
    they will do a basic install of RHEL 6 and this will not be an issue.
    Could it be done better... sure but at what point do you stop? We could discover all services running on the system and start monitoring them out of the box but what are important and what are not to each customer? The idea is to give you some basic monitoring
    on a default install based on what each OS provider starts on a "default" install. If this does not suite your needs SCOM is very configurable and adding a custom service monitor is very easy to configure along with disabling existing ones.
    If you'd like to provide feedback on this feel free to open a support ticket with Microsoft and file what we call a 'Design Change Request' [DCR]. We go though these prior to starting each update to SCOM. No guarantee it will get fixed/changed as we do have
    priorities but we are listening.
    Regards,
    -Steve

  • SCOM 2012 Global Architecture, One management group or multiple?

    Hi Folks,
    I work for a global firm, we have multiple data caters in different regions. America, UK, Australia, China etc etc. We are looking to roll out SCOM 2012 for monitoring all systems. Our environment
    1,000 Windows servers
    All servers on the same Active Directory domain
    10 Mbps links between data centers.
    My question is around whether to use multiple management groups or one?   I’ve seen recommendations for both. For example
    In the Infrastructure Planning and Design guide for SCOM 2012 it is stated:
    “A centralized management model with large remote locations works best with a management group in each region and a local management group (which provides a consolidated view of alerts and status) in the parent location. In this case, the centralized management
    group connects through the software development kit (SDK) and functions as an additional console on each of the connected management groups.”
    However moderators in this forum have stated
    “Each management group has its own set of SQL Servers and Management Servers \ Gateways. It also adds considerably to administrative overhead. I'd try to avoid
    multiple management groups where possible.”
    ” It will get expensive in terms of hardware and software with multiple management groups and you will duplicate a lot of work with regards to overrides”
    “If you go with multiple Management Groups then you would need to add on a fair number of SQL licenses plus additional hardware. “
    “Presumably if I have multiple management groups will that mean I will have to
    create rules for each Management Group- correct. Same
    with overrides. It could add a lot of administrative overhead. “
    It would seem easier to just deploy one management group with the management servers in one datacenter but I’m concerned with performance. I’ve heard
    stories about SCOM deployments architected in this way not performing well because of network latency. i.e admins from all regions besides the region local to the SCOM deployment not wanting to use SCOM because application performance is too slow.
    What would the SCOM experts recommend for this scenario?
    MH

    1) My question is around whether to use multiple management groups or one?
    Factors to consider in determine the number of Management group
     • Scaling
     • Agents separated from their management server by WAN-speed network links
     • Political, administrative or security requirements within the organization requiring separate management groups.
     • A view of AD DS topology required across multiple forests.
     • A dedicated management group required for auditing purposes.
     • Disaster recovery functionality required.
     • Consolidated views of connected management groups required in Operations Manager.
     • Operations Manager integration with the VMM console.
     With refer to your situation
     a) 1,000 Windows servers
     b) All servers on the same Active Directory domain
     c) 10 Mbps links between data centers.
    It is suggest that one Management group is required.
    2) It would seem easier to just deploy one management group with the management servers in one datacenter but I’m concerned with performance
    It is recommend that you should deploy Gateway server in region office which has more than 10 agents.
    • Gateway server reduce network bandwidth utilization. Agents located across WAN links consume network bandwidth, potentially affecting service delivery to and from the remote location. A gateway server can consolidate the traffic.
    Roger

  • Three agent UR versions gets installed from gateway - SCOM 2012 SP1 UR4

    Hi,
    We have a SCOM 2012 SP1 UR4 installation with several gateways that servers connect to and get installation from.
    We noticed that when the agent get installed on a client server it gets first the agent itself, then UR1, UR2 and last UR4.
    From the XML-section in the task that has installed the agent one can read the following:
    SoftwareUpdateInstalled KB2784734-amd64-Agent.msp;KB2826664-amd64-Agent.msp;KB2880799-amd64-Agent.msp; SoftwareUpdateInstalled
    Below is from the application log of a newly installed server that got the agent installed.
    The question I have is if this is correct? Why are all three UR installed?
    Shouldn't it be enough with the latest version of UR? Are they not cumulative?
    Can I simply delete the older versions in the agent directory of the Gateway?
    Regards S-E
    Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Agent.
    Product Version: 7.0.9538.0. Product Language: 0. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation.
    Installation success or error status: 0.
    Windows Installer installed an update. Product Name: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Agent.
    Product Version: 7.0.9538.0. Product Language: 0. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation.
    Update Name: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager SP1 UR1 Update Patch.
    Installation success or error status: 0.
    Windows Installer installed an update. Product Name: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Agent.
    Product Version: 7.0.9538.0. Product Language: 0. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation.
    Update Name: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager SP1 UR2 Update Patch.
    Installation success or error status: 0.
    Windows Installer installed an update. Product Name: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager Agent.
    Product Version: 7.0.9538.0. Product Language: 0. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation.
    Update Name: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager SP1 UR4 Update Patch.
    Installation success or error status: 0.
    Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: Active Directory Management Pack Helper Object.
    Product Version: 1.1.0. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation.
    Installation success or error status: 0.

    Hi,
    This should be normal, as we can see in the below two articles. When applying Update Rollup 2, UR1 is listed there, and when applying Update Rollup 3, UR1 and UR2 is listed there also.
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2013/04/11/applying-update-rollup-2-ur2-to-opsmgr-2012-sp1.aspx
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2013/09/27/applying-update-rollup-3-ur3-to-opsmgr-2012-sp1.aspx
    For example, UR3 can be applied to System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 (as released) or a SCOM 2012 SP1 deployment that has had UR1 or UR2 already applied.
    Regards,
    Yan Li
    Regards, Yan Li

  • SCOM 2012 R2 # Windows Server agents remain in pending management

    Hi,
    First I installed one SCOM 2012 R2 Ops Manager. On same SCOM ops manager I added 3 windows server agents to monitor as below..
    one 2008 R2 AD server
    one Lync 2013 FE server
    one Exchange server 2013
    Now due to some technical issues later I had to completely remove/uninstall SCOM 2012 R2 setup. But I forgot to uninstall/remove 3 agents first before uninstalling SCOM 2012 R2 ops manager :( However I did manual uninstall of Microsoft monitoring agent setup
    from all 3 monitored agent servers.
    Now I setup new SCOM 2012 R2 ops manager once again. FQDN of new SCOM has been changed now, though server is in same domain as old one. Problem I am facing here is " I cannot able to add those 3 agents back into new SCOM ops manager. When I install
    agent back onto those 3 servers (by agent discovery or manual setup) , servers remains in pending management. I used power shell command to approve all 3 but even after approval servers are not being monitored. Health status always showing not monitored. A
    blank green circle.
    I think I didn't properly removed old agent setup, & somehow those 3 agents still bound to old SCOM ops manager.
    Could you please help me how I can remove remaining components of old agent setup from windows agent servers and monitor them with new SCOM?
    BR,
    Ajit

    Ensure that the following registry keys are deleted:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Operations Manager
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\HealthService
    Reboot the agent machine (if possible)
    Delete the agent from Agent Managed in the OpsMgr console.
    Then try to discovery and push agent from console if failed. Try to install it manual and then from pending management click approved.
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  • Logical Disk space on a virtual Computer (not a Server) in SCOM 2012

    Hello all-
       I have a sort of unique situation for our SCOM environment.  We are already doing logical disk space monitoring on all of our SERVERS with no issues.  Now we have one user who requires monitoring on their computer.  This is really
    a virtual workstation, as opposed to a real computer.   Since it's virtual, it's really online all the time.    Whether its right or wrong, they are using this virtual workstation sort of as a server.  Anyway, they want me to
    monitor the disk space for the C drive on this virtual computer.  I'm having difficulty setting up such a monitor on a computer like that...
    I got the SCOM agent installed onto the computer.  SCOM is reporting it as being "Healthy".   Now how can I define a logical disk space monitor for it?   I attempt to create a monitor:   Windows Performance Counters,
    Static Thresholds, Single Threshold.  Then how can I direct the monitor at the C drive on the computer?  I have to fill in the Object, Counter and Instanace.  Normally I would click on the
    Select button, then I would type in the server name and hit Enter and it would bring up all the objects it will allow me to monitor.  Unfortunately it doesn't let me type in the computer name and hit enter in the same way.  When I
    do so, it says "The network path was not found".  If I click on the
    ... button next to the Computer field, it brings me to a Select Computer screen.  In here, I am type in the computer name and then I click
    Check Name and it does appear to find it, and it underlines the computer's name.    So I then click
    OK to bring me back to the previous screen where it presents me with the same  "The network path was not found" error immediately. So I can't seem to navigate to the computer in SCOM and select the C drive, as I would be able
    to for a server.
    I tried to sort of force it in, instead of browsing for the computer and selecting the C drive.  I simply put
    LogicalDisk in for the Object then Free Megabytes for the Counter, then
    C: for the Instance (as shown in the attached screen print.
    Then I just applied my new rule to the computer via SCOM.  I don't get any error messages when setting it up that way, but it certainly doesn't work.
    So with all that said, can anyone help me out setting up a logical disk space monitoring for a COMPUTER in SCOM 2012 SP1 please?  Please let me know if you need any more information!

    Thanks, that would probably do it, I'm going to keep that as my backup plan.  However, my current feeling is that it might be a bit overkill to install a whole management pack, when all I want to do is monitor a single C drive on a single workstation. 
    The rest of the monitors in the management pack I wouldn't have any interest it.   Let me ask you a question maybe you will know the answer to... Shouldn't I be able to monitor that drive even without that management pack installed?   I
    mean some combination of settings for the Logical Disk Space rule in that management pack works for computers/workstations.  Shouldn't I be able to reproduce that one single rule without the management pack?  Does anyone have that management pack
    installed?  Could you possibly look at the Client OS Logical Disk Space rule and send me some screen shots or something?   Or am I missing something?  Is the management pack needed for other reasons in order to monitor this?

  • SCOM 2012 SNMP Trap - Does anyone have it working?

    I am wondering if anyone out there has had any luck with getting SNMP Traps to be captured by SCOM 2012?  Probes work fine.
    We have been unable to get SCOM 2012 to receive a SNMP Trap from network devices.  We currently have a case open with Microsoft, but they dont have any answers as of yet.
    Here are the cliff notes version of what we have done so far.
    Discovery - OK
    The nodes discover without issue.  I made sure they were set to SNMP only.  I did this to verify we were talking SNMP and not just ICMP.
    Open Ports/Firewall Issues
    No firewalls are in place on the SCOM server and none exist between devices we are trying to get traps from.  Using a port tool, I can see that UDP 162 is listening as expected and its the System Center Management Host Process that is running the
    process.  We have tried having SNMP installed, but disabled, installed and running, and uninstalled.  Currently we have the SNMP service installed and running.  The SNMP Trap Service is NOT installed.
    Data Validation
    Using Wireshark running on the SCOM box I have been able to validate the OIDs we are searching for are hitting the SCOM server.  I installed an SNMP Trap generator and Receiver on my local machine as well as Jalasoft SNMP Simulator.  I was able
    to discover my local machine as a network device and if I send a TRAP from the TRAP generator on my local machine to the receiver on my local machine I can validate the data is coming through ok.
    What has been done on SCOM side
    The simplest place to look for data is with an Event Collection Rule and then an Event View Monitor.  We have set up an Event Based Monitor to search for an OID that I know to be accurate and then I set up an Event monitor to look for
    anything hitting that Collection Rule.  The Event monitor showed nothing so we changed the EVent Monitor to look for anything that hit Node which should show any SNMP traps that have hit from network devices.  No results.
    We tried to run WFAnalyzer from the 2007R2 Authoring Console, but it wont run against 2012 and from what I have found the 2012 edition doesnt exist anywhere yet.
    So has anyone succesfully received a SNMP TRAP into SCOM 2012?

    Hi,
    As this thread has been quiet for a while, we assume that the issue has been resolved. At this time, we will mark it as "Answered" as the previous steps should be helpful for many similar scenarios.
    In addition, we’d love to hear your feedback about the solution. By sharing your experience you can help other community members facing similar problems.
    Thanks,
    Yog Li
    TechNet Community Support
    How could you possibly mark this as answered? No answer was given, it was quiet for a couple of days including one of which was a holiday in the US. The previous steps are NOT helpful.  The question remains, Does anyone have it working?
    People have given troubleshooting advice, but nobody has actually answered the simple question.  Do they have it actually WORKING?

  • SCOM 2012 R2 RU 2 Topology widgets Background image and Nod visualization is missing

    After Updating RU 2 in System center OM 2012 R2 no background image and Nod visualization missing in Topology widgets ?
    Santosh Dharamsale

    You will need to Import the MP Microsoft.SystemCenter.Visualization.Library.mpb.
    For more info., You can refer below link
    http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2014/04/update-rollup-2-for-scom-2012-r2.html
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  • Turn off the SQL DB monitoring entirely in scom 2012 (SP1)

    Is there a way to centrally target and turn down monitoring of all the servers running SQL DB in SCOM 2012. We actually created groups using the OU's to target the SQL servers but some of the servers which have SQL DB are not in that OU and they are still
    triggering DB alerts.
    Some of the alerts also include 
    Management Group: Ancestry Ops. Script: DiscoverSQL2012FileGroups.js : Cannot login to database [XXserver.domain.com][SQLD114B:model]
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    Any information about this ll be greatly useful.
    Thanks
    Hari V

    Pretty much what Hopeless guy said.  I have scom 2007 in prod, so I use remove-disabledmonitoringobject after I override a discovery.   The issue is that these SQL dbs are still being discovered.  So if you want to disable sql monitoring
    in total for them, override the seed discovery which will have a target of windows server/computer.  Then after the override is in palace execute the remove command from SCOM commandshell.  You then should scope to the class you want to disappear
    (discovered inventory pane), and refresh every 15 min or so to see if they are being removed.  I have had to run the remove command a few times to clean some large discovered inventory up.
    Regards, Blake Email: mengotto<at>hotmail.com Blog: http://discussitnow.wordpress.com/ If my response was helpful, please mark it as so, if it answered your question, then please also mark it accordingly. Thank you.

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