{"id":10404,"date":"2010-02-12T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2010-02-12T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T18:16:00","slug":"hardware-monitoring-using-system-center-operations-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10404","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Monitoring Using System Center Operations Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardware management is the one thing I am most worried about.&#160; Sure, I could deploy the manufacturers management solution.&#160; But do I want consoles to manage lots of different systems?&#160; Really, you don\u2019t.&#160; You want one central point and that can be the Operations Manager console.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m most familiar with what HP does so I\u2019ll explain it.&#160; They provide and Insight Manager agent that detects health and performance issues of the hardware.&#160; This includes all of the components, e.g. CPU, fans, disks, network cards, etc.&#160; You can deploy and OpsMgr agent to this server.&#160; If you install the HP Insight Manager management pack then, after discovery, OpsMgr will be aware of the Insight Manager agent.&#160; All data collected by that agent will be detected by OpsMgr.&#160; So now, if a disk fails you learn about it in OpsMgr.&#160; If memory degrades, you learn about it in OpsMgr.&#160; This is so handy \u2013 because this is where you also get performance and health alerts for Windows, SQL, Exchange, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, etc.&#160; You can extend with 3rd party solutions to include your Cisco network, etc.&#160; Heck, there\u2019s even a coffee pot management pack!!!<\/p>\n<p>Back in the day, there appeared to be only support from HP and Dell.&#160; But that has changed.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/h20392.www2.hp.com\/portal\/swdepot\/displayProductsList.do?groupName=HP+Server+integrations+with+Microsoft+System+Center+products\" target=\"_blank\">HP<\/a>: Hewlett Packard has management packs for ProLiant servers, BladeSystem, and Integrity.&#160; There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/h18000.www1.hp.com\/storage\/SCOM_managementpack.html\" target=\"_blank\">management pack for StorageWorks<\/a> systems (e.g. EVA SAN).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/content\/topics\/global.aspx\/sitelets\/solutions\/management\/microsoft_sms?c=us&amp;l=en&amp;cs=555\" target=\"_blank\">Dell<\/a>: I\u2019ve never managed Dell machines with OpsMgr.&#160; But I am told that Dell did a very nice job.&#160; They are significant Microsoft partners.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www-947.ibm.com\/systems\/support\/supportsite.wss\/docdisplay?lndocid=SYST-MANAGE&amp;brandind=5000016\" target=\"_blank\">IBM<\/a>: I\u2019m not the biggest fan of IBM \u2013 we have some X series stuff which I detest.&#160; We had to get a IBM employee to download the management pack because all external links failed.&#160; At the time, it appeared their \u201cshared\u201d download was only available from the IBM corporate network. A Dutch friend had the same issue and I ended up sending him what I was given by IBM.&#160; I\u2019ll be honest, the IBM Director management pack is poor compared to the HP one.&#160; IBM wants you to spend lots of money on consultancy led Tivoli.&#160; IBM Director is pretty poor too.&#160; IBM Ireland employees have been unable to figure out how to monitor IBM DAS nor give me the documentation to do it.<\/li>\n<li>Fujitsu: I have not seen a Fujitsu server since 2005.&#160; Back then there was no MOM management pack for the Fujitsu Siemens servers; they wanted you to use a native solution only.&#160; That has changed.&#160; They have <a href=\"http:\/\/support.ts.fujitsu.com\/download\/Showdescription.asp?ID=1031829&amp;Lng=en\" target=\"_blank\">ServerView Integration for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Essentials 2007<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/support.ts.fujitsu.com\/download\/Showdescription.asp?ID=1044048&amp;Lng=en\" target=\"_blank\">ServerView Integration Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should get you started.&#160; Each of the manufacturers seems to do things differently.&#160; HP, for example, uses the above system for ProLaints.&#160; But blade enclosures require a piece of middleware.&#160; Make sure you read the accompanying documentation from the OEM before you do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to fellow MVP Mark Wilson for finding the links for Fujitsu.&#160; <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:d9b3830b-39c1-43fd-9802-39ed0e335800\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Operations+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Operations Manager<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/HP\" rel=\"tag\">HP<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardware management is the one thing I am most worried about.&#160; Sure, I could deploy the manufacturers management solution.&#160; But do I want consoles to manage lots of different systems?&#160; Really, you don\u2019t.&#160; You want one central point and that can be the Operations Manager console. I\u2019m most familiar with what HP does so I\u2019ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10404\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hardware Monitoring Using System Center Operations Manager&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,83],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opsmgr","tag-hp","tag-operations-manager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}