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March 2007 |
In this edition:- Authoring Management Packs - Philip Best - Security Groups in Operations Manager 2007 - Randy Roffey - Management Pack News - Operations Manager Support Articles - Operations Manager Tips brought to you by momcommunity.com
With the pending release of System Center Operations Manager 2007, we thought we would give you as much information as we can on the subject.
If you have an article you would like to submit for inclusion in a future edition of Inside Microsoft® Operations Manager, please send it to info@silect.com
Authoring Management Packsby Philip Best
The following is an excerpt from Part I of Philip's whitepaper on Management Pack authoring. See below for a link to view the entire article.
Change Management
The exact mechanics of deciding how many custom management packs to author and other issues will be addressed in future articles. However, even if you have only Microsoft authored management packs, you’ll still need at least one management pack to contain all the customized Microsoft rules that work around issues particular to your environment.
Please view the complete MOM Authoring article on momcommunity at the following location (you need to sign in to view the article): http://www.momcommunity.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=9672
Philip Best practices systems management for Deloitte Services LP, despite his formal training in economics. He’s an avid reader and occasional thinker on all things software configuration management related. He resides in Nashville, TN with his wife Erika, their son, Lance, and a particularly deranged cat. He can be reached at pbest@deloitte.com
Security Groups in Operations Manager 2007by Randy Roffey Operations Manager 2007 utilizes Roles to manage security within the console. In an attempt to implement administration of the Role membership I came across a couple of issues that can be a little tricky to resolve.
By default the OpsMgr Administrator Role contains only the Builtin\Administrator group. In order to better manage membership in this Role I first tried adding my user account but quickly discovered it had to be a Global Group. I also discovered that I was unable to remove the Builtin\Administrator group from this role until after I had successfully added a new group. The first issue I encountered was adding a group to the OpsMgr Administrator Role and then removing the Builtin\Administrator group, only to find out membership in the new group did not provide sufficient access to the Role within the console. I needed to put the original group back. With some research I found instructions on “How to Reset the Administrator Group in Operations Manager 2007”. The required steps are summarized below. If you would like to email me I would be happy to share more details.
I suggest first creating a Global Security Group such as OpsMgrAdministrators, eventually be sure to place your account in this group. Next use MOMADadmin.exe, based on an article by Rory McCaw of (infront consulting) as a reference, to prepare AD for AD Auto AgentAssignment. Be sure to include later steps such as modifying a certain registry value to enable AD integration. His article can be found here: http://www.infrontconsulting.com/AD_OpsMgr2007.pdf
I had problems adding the new group to the Operations Manager Administrator Role. I ended up reviewing the MomAuth.xml file and discovered the SID for the new group was there but the group could not be saved or seen in the Ops Mgr. console.
update authorizationstore set Data = '<paste the new MomAuth.xml content here>’
Randy Roffey is a long time IT Pro who currently works for Silect Software. Randy can be contacted at randyr@silect.com
Management Pack NewsA number of new or updated Management Packs have been released by Microsoft recently. Here's a summary:
Please refer to the Management Pack Catalog for complete descriptions of these and other MOM Management Packs.
Operations Manager Support ArticlesHere are some recent support articles relating to MOM provided by Microsoft:
Prerequisites and configuration
settings that are required to make the Notification Workflow Solution
Accelerator fully functional with Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM)
2005
The Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 agent may not enter or exit maintenance mode when you use the MOMInfo.exe tool together with the maintenance mode parameter http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909633/en-us
You receive many error alerts after you import the Exchange Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891602/en-us
The "Last Contacted" column is not
updated for MOM agents after you install Microsoft Operations Manager
2005 Service Pack 1
Error message when you open the Operator Console in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005: "Error connecting to server: localhost" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922333/en-us
Event ID 25222 is logged when you use the Internet Information Server (IIS) Management Pack for MOM 2005 to monitor IIS http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922335/en-us
Error message when you try to
install a Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 agent: "The Agent could not
contact the MOM Server"
Error message when you try to import
Management Pack reports in Microsoft Operations Manager 2005: "Import
failed"
The MOM 2005 log provider only
supports log file folders that reside on the same computer as the MOM
agent
When you to try to install Microsoft
Operations Manager 2005 Workgroup Edition Service Pack 1 on a computer
that is running Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the installation fails
How to check for an event storm by
using MOM 2005 Reporting
Script error events may appear in
the Alerts pane of the MOM Operations console
You receive error messages when you
install Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 a computer that is running
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Operations Manager Tips
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Question submitted by Arun:
Installing SQL server 2005
management pack for SCOM 2007
Have you installed a agent on that
database server you want to monitor?
Another response by rackesh:
Hi,
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