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© System Center Essentials 2007 & System Center Operations Manager 2007 Seminarium

© Agenda  System Center Overview  System Center Essentials Introduction  System Center Operations Manager 2007 Introduction  Implementing OpsMgr 2007 (NOT SCOM!)  Planning  Deployment  Configuration  Monitoring

© Why System Center?  Alignes to business values like  Control of the IT environment  Lower administrative costs  Proactive administration instead of reactive  Follows IT management tools like  ITIL  MOF and MSF  Price is very competitive  A major part of Microsoft Dynamic System Initiative (DSI)

© System Center Applications  System Center Operations Manager 2007  System Center Essentials 2007  System Center Configuration Server 2007 RC1  System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007 Beta2  System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 Beta2  System Center Capacity Planner 2007 Beta 1  System Center Service Desk

© System Center Essentials 2007

© System Center Essentials 2007  Is a combination of  System Center Operations Manager 2007  Windows Server Update Service 3.0  System Center Configuration Server 2007  Deployed in under 1 hour!  Easy to administer  Designed for mid-size companies (500 clients and 30 servers max)

© System Center Essentials 2007 Overview

© i.e. OpsMgr 2007 System Center Operations Manager 2007

© Introduction  Monitors Servers, Clients and Network devices  Features:  Easy to administer  Scalable  Rule based  Secure  Easy to deploy  Reporting with SQL Server  Management Packs  Buy, Create or Download for free  Connectors to other Management software  HP and Tivoli

© Introduction  New Features:  Deep platform integration with all the new applications and platforms  End to end service monitoring  New ways of monitoring other platforms and hardware  New simplified, role-based UI  Run script to identify problems  Support for PowerShell  New and improved extensive SDK  Probable cause analysis

© Server Roles  Database Server  Operations Manager database (OperationsManager)  Operations Manager Reporting database (OperationsManagerDW)  SQL Reporting database (ReportServer)  ACS Audit database (OperationsManagerAC)  Root Management Server (RMS)  Management Server (MS)  ACS collector  Gateway Server  Web Console server

© Server Roles Relationship Database Server Operations Manager database (OperationsManager) Operations Manager Reporting database (OperationsManagerDW) SQL Reporting database (ReportServer) ACS Audit database (OperationsManagerAC) Root Management ServerAgentAgentless Agentless Exception Monitoring Management ServerGateway ServerAgentACS Collector

© Planning Deployment  Server topology  Multiple servers  One for all  Infrastructure needed  Active Directory  (Native 2000 mode)  DNS  Certification Authority (CA)  Hardware requirements  2,8 GHz CPU, 2GB RAM, GB HDD  Software requirements  Windows Server 2003 SP2 .NET Framework 3.0  IIS 6.0 including ASP.NET  SQl Server 2005 SP2  Powershell  Windows Server 2003 Support Tools

© Deployment 1. Create Service Accounts 2. Install Database Server 3. Install Root Management Server 4. Install Management Server 5. Install Reporting 6. Install ACS 7. Install Gateway Server 8. Configure OpsMgr 2007

© Configuration  Console Overview  Monitoring  Authoring  Reporting  Administration  My Workspace  Configure Settings  Heartbeats  Alerts  Database Grooming  Notification  Security  Implement User Roles 1. Create User Role 2. Choose Profile 3. Define a Scope  Notifications  Recipients  Channels  Subscriptions  Management Packs  Import/Export  Sealed vs Unsealed  Overrides

© Configuring OpsMgr 2007

© Deploy Agents  Agent monitoring  Agentless monitoring  Audit collection  Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM)  Deployment Options  AD Integration  Fully automated installation  Using distribution software (SCCM 2007?)  Semi-automatic Installation (Wizard)  Manual installation

© Agent Deployment

© Monitoring  Views  Alerts  Health Explorer  Managing Overrides  Inventory  Reporting

© Monitoring

© Security and Disaster Recovery Database management  As usual. Keep database small!  Configure Grooming  Backup and restore  Pay close attention to the RMS  Use standard backup tools  Backup Management Packs seperately  Customized reports  CA certificates  All server roles can be easily restored

© Security and Disaster Recovery  What to backup  Operations Manager database (OperationsManager)  Operations Manager Reporting database (OperationsManagerDW)  SQL Reporting database (ReportServer)  ACS Audit database (OperationsManagerAC)  Master database (Master)  Msdb database (Msdbdata)  Management Packs (.xml files)  IIS metabase

© Database management

© Security and Disaster Recovery  Securing OpsMgr 2007  Secure all service accounts  Use Role-based security  Kerberos mutual authentication is used in most areas  Certificates are used in all other areas  SQL server authentication can be used between SQL servers  Use SSL for Web console and Reporting  Use Forms-based authentication

© Securing OpsMgr 2007

© Questions?  Additional reading:  Deployment Guide  Operations Guide  Security Guide Training  Workshop: Infrastructure Management using System Center Operations Manager A252  No MOC courses are available (and not planned either). Certification are comming (70-400). Technical questions: Training questions: