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SCOM: Neue Management Packs Anfang August 2011

August 6th, 2011 No comments

SCOM: Neue Management Packs Ende Juli

July 28th, 2011 No comments

In den letzten 14 Tagen ist nur ein neues Management Pack von Microsoft veröffentlicht worden. Dies aber gleich mit mehreren Sprachpaketen. Es handelt sich Dabei um das Überwachugnspaket für den Active Directory Rights Managemetn Server 2008 (RMS) und 2008 R2.

Neue Management Packs im Zeitraum zwischen 17.07.2011 und 28.07.2011

SCOM: Neue Management Packs Mitte Juli 2011

July 16th, 2011 No comments

Diesmal gibt es ein paar interessante neue Management Packs (MP). Dazu zählt das MP für das BitLocker Administration  and Monitoring (MBAM) aus dem Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) und das MP für das CRM 2011.

Auch das Self Service Portal 2.0 hat jetzt ein MP bekommen:

Neue Management Packs im Zeitraum zwischen 26.06.2011 und 16.07.2011

SCOM: SCX Source Code

July 3rd, 2011 No comments

photo-cameraDie System Center Cross Platform Solutions wurde von Microsoft als Open Source Produkt auf Codeplex bereitgestellt. Dies hat den Vorteil, dass man die SCX an andere Linux Systeme anpassen und selber nachschauen kann, wie Microsoft programmiert. Bei einer Recherche ist mir folgender Codeausschnitt aufgefallen:

#elif defined(sun)
// According to the Pegasus Solaris implementation they don't know how
// to determine this number, but they still return 0 for unlimited.
nolu = 0;
return true;
#else
// Thanks to the glory of free software there is no limit on the number of users!
nolu = 0;
return true;
#endif

Gefunden in osinstance.cpp unter http://scx.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/32074#

“Thanks to the glory of free software”: Entweder wurde der Kommentar direkt aus der Original Pegasusimplementierung übernommen, oder ein paar Entwickler bei Microsoft haben doch eine gute Meinung über Linux. Oder ist das vielleicht Ironie?

SCOM: Neue Management Packs Mitte Juni 2011

June 26th, 2011 No comments

search5In den letzten 14 Tagen kam das Management Pack für Duet Enterprise hinzu:

Neue Management Packs im Zeitraum zwischen 17.06.2011 und 26.06.2011

Monitoring Fedora Core 4 with SCOM 2007 R2 – Part 3

June 19th, 2011 No comments

earthIn the part 3 of the Fedora Core 4 discovery pack I will explain the creation of the discovery management pack in detail.

Creating the new MP for Discovery:

  • Open the Authoring Console (please use the newest on. I have used 6.1.7221.49)
  • File –> New and enter the required values
  • File –> Management Pack Properties
  • Select the tab References –> Add Reference
  • Add Reference to Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4, change the alias to RHEL4 (it’s shorter and easier to use) and a reference to the Microsoft.Unix.Library with the alias Unix. Your reference tab should look like the picture 1 (the picture has another reference to linux but this will be added automaticly with the discovery)
  • Switch to Health Model, select Discovery
  • new Custom Discovery, name Technidata.Fedora.4.Computer.Discovery
    • Target: Microsoft.Linux.RedHat.Computer
    • Discovered Classes: Add class Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4.Computer
    • Configuration: Browse… and select: Microsoft.Unix.WSMan.TimedEnumerate.Filtered.MatchesRegularExpression.DiscoveryData and add a module id like discovery
    • Press Edit and enter the xml from part 2 into the editor: replace the text between Configuration> and </Configuration> with the XML text <TargetSystem>[…]</InstanceSettings>
    • Close the editor
    • your discovery tab should look like picture 2
  • Do the same with the second xml from part 2
  • Your discovery pack is ready to be imported into your test SCOM environment.

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SCOM: Neue Management Packs Anfang Juni 2011

June 17th, 2011 No comments

SCOM: Neue Management Packs Mai 2011

June 5th, 2011 No comments

Neue Management Packs im Zeitraum zwischen 01.05.2011 und 31.05.2011

Aktualisiert wurde das SQL Server Management Pack mit:

SQL Server Management Pack version 6.1.400.00 includes the following changes:

  • Documented association of Run As profiles and targets for account mapping.
  • Made minor fixes in string resources.
  • Made security improvements.

Hier die direkten Downloadlinks: (Die Word-Dokumente mit den Beschreibungen sind ganz am Ende der Liste)

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Monitoring Fedora Core 4 with SCOM 2007 R2 – Part 2

June 3rd, 2011 5 comments

earthThe creation of the troja management pack is easy. You only have to add to discovery tasks which create the RHEL4 computer object and the operating system object and fills them with some basic informations.

In the authoring console you have the add a reference to the Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4 MP because we will use the RHEL4 Computer object.

This is the XML code of the first discovery task:

<Discovery ID=”Technidata.Fedora.4.Computer.Discovery” Enabled=”true” Target=”RedHat!Microsoft.Linux.RedHat.Computer” ConfirmDelivery=”false” Remotable=”true” Priority=”Normal”>
<Category>Discovery</Category>
<DiscoveryTypes>
<DiscoveryClass TypeID=”RHEL4!Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4.Computer” />
</DiscoveryTypes>
<DataSource ID=”DS” TypeID=”Unix!Microsoft.Unix.WSMan.TimedEnumerate.Filtered.MatchesRegularExpression.DiscoveryData”>
<TargetSystem>$Target/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/NetworkName$</TargetSystem>
<Uri>http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/SCX_OperatingSystem?__cimnamespace=root/scx</Uri>
<Filter />
<SplitItems>false</SplitItems>
<Interval>300</Interval>
<SyncTime />
<FilterProperty>//*[local-name()="Caption"]</FilterProperty>
<FilterValue>.*Fedora Core release 4.*</FilterValue>
<ClassId>$MPElement[Name="RHEL4!Microsoft.Linux.RHEL.4.Computer"]$</ClassId>
<InstanceSettings>
<Settings>
<Setting>
<Name>$MPElement[Name="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</Name>
<Value>$Target/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</Value>
</Setting>
<Setting>
<Name>$MPElement[Name="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/TimeZoneOffset$</Name>
<Value>$Data///*[local-name()="CurrentTimeZone"]$</Value>
</Setting>
</Settings>
</InstanceSettings>
</DataSource>
</Discovery>

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Monitoring Fedora Core 4 with SCOM 2007 R2 – Part 1

June 2nd, 2011 3 comments

earthFedora bases upon Red Hat Enterprise linux which is supported by SCOM. Fedora Core 3 was the base of  RHEL 4 and Fedora Core 6 RHEL 5. In this blog posts I will try to convince SCOM that the Fedora 4 based Asterisk telecom system is a RHEL 4.

First we have to install the RHEL4 scom agent manual onto the systems. In this case we had to install the OpenSSL library, too. Additional we add the scom user account to the system.

After that we sign the local created certificate by the scom server and replace it on the Fedora system.

Now we can test the connection from the SCOM server with this winrm command:

winrm enumerate http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/SCX_OperatingSystem?__cimnamespace=root/scx -username:scomuser -password:yourpassword -r:https://your.fedora.system:1270/wsman -auth:basic -encoding:UTF-8

The output shows detail information about the OS:

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