Twice last week at our user group event on OCS 2007 R2, I was asked about monitoring the network using Operations Manager 2007.\u00a0 Well, you can.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Check out the Jalasoft offering<\/a>.\u00a0 I had a demo of it last year at TechEd and it looked very nice.\u00a0 They do something similar to the HP blade management pack.\u00a0 You install an application either on your management server or on a dedicate machine depending on the load.\u00a0 This communicates with your routers, switches and firewalls.\u00a0 The app then feeds all the data into OpsMgr so you can monitor your network infrastructure health and performance using OpsMgr.<\/p>\n There\u2019s another trick you can do on _small_ networks.\u00a0 System Center Essentials includes a basic SNMP based management pack for network monitoring.\u00a0 It assumes there\u2019s only a small number of network devices so it\u2019s not efficient CPU-wise when that number grows.\u00a0 You can pull out that MP and install it on OpsMgr.\u00a0 That\u2019s totally unsupported by MS.<\/p>\n Then you can do what I\u2019m doing with OpsMgr 2007 R2 (cross platform extensions).\u00a0 Our network guys set up a SLES VM on our Hyper-V cluster.\u00a0 They\u2019re used to the traditional tools like SYSLOG and Cactii.\u00a0 That\u2019s fine with me; I\u2019m not a network guy (I just request changes and want to know things are OK at a high level) so I want them to work efficiently.\u00a0 We\u2019re doing a few things to extend this with OpsMgr 2007 R2:<\/p>\n I\u2019ve bundled all of those and the SLES box into a group.\u00a0 The network guys are delegated rights to that group and are getting notifications for alerts from entities in the group.\u00a0 That gives us network monitoring via OpsMgr 2007 R2 with minimum spend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twice last week at our user group event on OCS 2007 R2, I was asked about monitoring the network using Operations Manager 2007.\u00a0 Well, you can.\u00a0 Check out the Jalasoft offering.\u00a0 I had a demo of it last year at TechEd and it looked very nice.\u00a0 They do something similar to the HP blade management … Continue reading “Network Monitoring With OpsMgr 2007 R2?”<\/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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opsmgr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n