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

2. David Allen @aquilaweb http://feeds.feedburner.com/aquilaweb

3. 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

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

5. Opalis History Opalis is a mature solution set Founded in 1999
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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

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

7. 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

8. The Power of the Opalis solution
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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.
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9. System Center Integration Packs
Opalis Integration Server 6.3

10. 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

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

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

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

18. 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

19. 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

20. Building a Workflow

21. Virtual Machine Provisioning

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

23. Useful Resources http://www.microsoft.com/opalis

24. System Center Orchestrator
Watch for
System Center Orchestrator
later this year!

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