1. Operations Manager 2007 R2 Beyond Monitoring Cameron Fuller Principal Consultant

2. What does Operations Manager do? From multiple sources – Microsoft products – Network devices – Hardware (Dell, IBM, HP) – Unix / CrossPlat – 3 rd party products Single Pane of Glass

3. Proactive Monitoring, Health Modeling, and more… That’s all nice but where’s the…

4. Agenda Operations DashboardService Level DashboardVisio IntegrationLive MapsSCCM Dashboard

5. Operations Manager Dashboard What’s it good for? – Presenting multiple views in the OpsMgr console What is it not good for? – Intuitive state view – Graphs, Charts, etc Pre-req’s? – OpsMgr

6. Operations Manager Dashboard Demo

7. Service Level Dashboard 2.0 What’s it good for? – Tracking SLA’s – Overview of health What is it not good for? – Health state for large numbers of items – Graphs and gauges other than SLA related Pre-req’s? – SharePoint or WSS 3.0

8. Service Level Dashboard Demo

9. Visio Integration What’s it good for? – State views What is it not good for? – Charts, graphs Pre-req’s? – Visio 2010, Sharepoint 2010 Enterprise

10. Visio Integration Demo

11. Savision Live Maps What’s it good for? – Really good for state views What is it not good for? – Charts, graphs Pre-req’s? – IIS, OpsMgr

12. Savision Live Maps Demo

13. SCCM Dashboard – For OpsMgr? What’s it good for? – Charts, Graphs and Gauges What is it not good for? – State Views Pre-req’s? – Sharepoint 2007 or WSS 3.0

14. SCCM Dashboard Demo

15. What does all this mean? Think about these as different tools in your toolbelt You may need one You may need more than one

16. Ideas on bringing these together OpsMgr DashboardSavision Live MapsSCCM Dashboard

17. Quality links on this topic (To Be Blogged) OpsMgr Console and Dashboards: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/09/scom- and-dashboards-part-ii-scom.htmlhttp://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/09/scom- and-dashboards-part-ii-scom.html Visio Integration: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/09/scom-and-dashboards- part-iii-visio-2010.htmlhttp://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/09/scom-and-dashboards- part-iii-visio-2010.html Live Maps: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/10/scom-and-dashboards-part-iv- savision.htmlhttp://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/10/scom-and-dashboards-part-iv- savision.html Live Maps and DA’s: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2010/07/30/taking- distributed-applications-to-the-next-level-with-savision-live-maps.aspx, http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2010/09/14/taking-distributed- applications-to-the-next-level-with-savision-live-maps-%E2%80%93-part-2.aspxhttp://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2010/07/30/taking- distributed-applications-to-the-next-level-with-savision-live-maps.aspx http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2010/09/14/taking-distributed- applications-to-the-next-level-with-savision-live-maps-%E2%80%93-part-2.aspx Live Maps and network monitoring: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2009/09/04/using-tcp-port-monitors- distributed-applications-and-savision-live-maps-to-monitor-redundant-network-links.aspx http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2009/09/04/using-tcp-port-monitors- distributed-applications-and-savision-live-maps-to-monitor-redundant-network-links.aspx SCCM dashboard for OpsMgr: http://www.scom2k7.com/how-to-create-a-custom-scom- dashboard-to-show-key-management-group-information/http://www.scom2k7.com/how-to-create-a-custom-scom- dashboard-to-show-key-management-group-information/ SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and OpsMgr: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/10/scom-and-dashboards-part-v-using.html http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/10/scom-and-dashboards-part-v-using.html

18. Q & A