SCOM-2012 monitoring queries

Hi Experts.
Based on your experiences and suggestions I achieved lot on SCOM design. I have few queries about Monitoring.
(a) Can we push agents in work-group servers using SCOM management console or we need manual installation.
(b) Is SCOM capable enough to monitor Non-Windows platform which are part of work-group or we need to import MPs for Linux/Unix/Oracle/Jboss/Apache?
(c) Can we monitor/intimate/alert to monitoring team if new machine is a member of domain and monitoring is not started (may be agent is not pushed). Lets consider a newly installed/configure server but not added in monitoring system. Can SCOM detect new
domain member and send alert saying this machine is not yet monitored.
(d) What is the best way to use Certificate for work-group servers. PKI or local Certs? How to handle certificate expiry issue? Need to follow all steps again?
Thanks.

Hi,
a) No, you can't push. Also - you must install and configure a certificate - it's a manual process too.
b) You need to import MP for everything you want to monitor. No MP - no monitoring. *nix MPs are not imported by default.
c) Technically - yes, you can. But you have to develop your own management pack for this task.
d) you can't use self-signed certificates. You need to by a certificates from the commercial CA or deploy your own CA.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/certificate-enrollment-for-system-center-operations-manager-agent.aspx
>Need to follow all steps again?
Yes, you need to renew a certificate.
http://OpsMgr.ru/

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