Opalis System Center Integration Packs Deep Dive David Allen Principal Consultant Infront Consulting Group

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Agenda IT Process Automation with System Center Opalis bringing System Center together The power of Opalis System Center Integration Packs DEMO – Building a Policy DEMO – Virtual Machine Provisioning Wrap-Up Q & A

Investing in IT Process Automation? How does System Center provide ITPA? Consistency Compliance Cohesion Removal of the manual The ability to choose

Opalis History Opalis is a mature solution set Founded in 1999 TechReady12 7/1/2019 Opalis History Opalis is a mature solution set Founded in 1999 Current version is 6.3 (Nov 2010) Acquired by Microsoft in December 2009 Opalis is a subsidiary of Microsoft The current version of Opalis is a grant to Microsoft customers

Opalis brings System Center together! Service Management Provisioning Configuration Monitoring Protection Automation . Integration Orchestration Service Manager

Opalis Concepts Activities Integration Packs Databus Runbooks Intelligent tasks that perform defined actions Integration Packs The way Opalis integrates to and executes activities against other systems and solutions Databus The mechanism Opalis uses to publish and consume information between activities as the runbook executes Runbooks System level workflows that execute a series of linked activities to complete a defined set of actions

The Power of the Opalis solution TechReady12 7/1/2019 The Power of the Opalis solution Market-tested Currently on 6th version of product which has seen broad customer adoption for a variety of use cases Easy authoring and debugging Drag and drop, Visio-like authoring, nested runbooks, built in features like looping and branching. Databus Abstracts developer-level complexity from the runbook author and enables Hub-and-spoke integration model Out of box Integration Packs All major enterprise products covered (HP, IBM, CA, BMC, EMC) Easy extensibility Quick Integration Kit (QIK) Operations console Role-based views provide visibility to the runbooks Cost All Management licensing vehicles (SMSE/D, ECI, e-CAL and SPLA) include a license grant for Opalis. © 2011 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

System Center Integration Packs Opalis Integration Server 6.3

System Center Operations Manager Requirements OIS 6.3 Operations Manager 2007 R2 Operations Manager console on each Action Server and Client Connection Link between OIS & Root Management Server Multiple connections to a single or many management groups 8 Activities

What’s Possible? Start & stop maintenance mode Monitor for alerts and object state changes Update alerts Generate Alerts

System Center Configuration Manager Requirements OIS 6.3 Configuration Manager 2007 RTM or newer Connection Link between OIS & Configuration Manager site server Multiple connections to a single or many site servers 11 Activities

What’s Possible? Advertise task sequences Create, delete and refresh collections Add computers to collections Create advertisements Deploy software update & get compliance Refresh client

System Center Virtual Machine Manager Requirements OIS 6.3 Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 Windows Management Framework Connection PowerShell Remoting Connection required for each VMM server 23 Activities

What’s Possible? Manage the self-service virtual machine library Create virtual machine resources such as disks, virtual hard disks, and network adapters Create virtual machines from templates, VHDs, and from other virtual machines Modify existing virtual machines Turn on and shut down virtual machines in batch mode Move virtual machines between hosts Create and restore virtual machine checkpoints

System Center Data Protection Manager Requirements OIS 6.3 Windows Management Framework Data Protection Manager 2010 Connection PowerShell Remoting Connection required for each DPM server 8 Activities

What’s Possible? Protect supported data sources, such as SQL, Exchange, SharePoint & Hyper-V Recover SharePoint, SQL and VMs Query DPM server capacity

System Center Service Manager Requirements OIS 6.3 Service Manager 2010 ENU Locale U.S. English Date Format Connection Polling for Monitor activities Reconnect interval Multiple connection to a single or many Service Manager servers 13 Activities

What’s Possible? Monitor, Create and Update items, such as: Change Requests Incident Records Problem Records Relationships Activities Configuration Items And more…. Co-ordinate and use operational data

Building a Workflow

Virtual Machine Provisioning

Wrap-Up Opalis Overview Integration pack requirements Integration pack uses Building a runbook Troubleshooting Provisioning a virtual machine

Useful Resources http://www.microsoft.com/opalis http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis http://technet.microsoft.com http://www.contoso.se http://opalis.codeplex.com http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb

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