Presented by Dieter Wijckmans.

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So you’ve successfully
installed SCOM…
Now what?
Dieter Wijckmans

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About me
• Dieter Wijckmans
• Member of SCUG Belgium (http://www.scug.be)
• System Center Technical consultant for Inovativ
Belgium
• Focus on System Center Operations Manager and
System Center Service Manager
• Mail: Dieter.Wijckmans@inovativ.be
• Twitter: @DieterWijckmans

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Motto
Don’t overthink…
It’s doing common things uncommonly well
that brings success.

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Topics
Scope
•What to expect from this LiveMeeting
Post install
•Health check
•Configuration of options
•Get the agents in
Monitoring
•Select your management packs
•Phased approach
Tips and
Tricks
•Backup environment

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Scope (what to expect)
Post install:
• Health Check
• Agents deployment
• Management packs
Starting up monitoring
Tips And Tricks

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So now what?
• Installation successful!
• How to start monitoring?
• Is there an approach to
follow?

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Preparation
Health Check Preparation
Start
Monitoring

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Health check
Management
server
Event log
Health
management group
SQL

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Install Agents
Install from console!
AD integration or manual?
Make sure user has admin privileges
Check firewall prereqs

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Health check + rolling out the agents.

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Preparation
Install agents
Select your
management
packs
Define
approach

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STARTUP MONITORING

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Typical questions
Am I monitoring yet?
I need management packs?
So what do I like to monitor?
So what is it doing out of the box?
Where do I go from here?

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Three questions to answer them all!
What?
When?
How?
Monitoring
Alerting
Notification

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Select your management packs
Base
Services
Custom
Amountofwork
NumberofMP’s

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Select your management packs
• Monitoring packs to assure the Basic
Availability of your Server Environment
• These monitoring packs include:
– Windows Core OS
– Hardware manufacturer MP
– Networking MP
Base

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Select your management packs
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Services

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Select your management packs
Custom
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Start monitoring

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Watch out
Don’t go too fast
Make a scenario and stick with it
Make sure you have some sort of request system
Health check every week!

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Tips and Tricks
Community Mp’s
Backup your environment
How to use the community
Quick wins to show to management

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Links
• Scug blog: http://scug.be/dieter/
• SCOM 2012 link overview blog: SCOM 2012
overview link blog

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Thanks for attending
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Mail: Dieter.Wijckmans@inovativ.be
Twitter: @DieterWijckmans