Managing non-Microsoft devices with Operations ManagerAnders Bengtsson Björn AxéllSenior Consultant, MS MVP Senior Consultant, MS MVPATEA Advisec

Agenda

• Today• Overview cross platform• Architecture• Supported Platforms and

planned Features• Demos, Demos, Demos• Time Line and tomorrow

Today

Operations Manager 2007 SP1• Syslog support• Monitors for SNMP (if you know the OID)• SNMP knowledge/MP from 3rd party vendor

System Center Essentials 2007• Built-in SNMP MP• Syslog support• No licsens for SNMP devices• More SNMP knowledge/MP from 3rd party vendors

Overview

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Overview

• Changes from Beta 1:• Fully integrated into OpsMgr 2007 R2• New MP Templates• 7 new Unix/Linux platforms supported• Integrated views• Integrated Discovery Wizard

Architecture

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Architecture Overview

WS-MAN

OpenPeagasus / CIMOM

Providers

Operations Manager

WS-MAN

OS Resources

WS-MAN (SSL encrypted)

Putty Library

WinRM

SSH Daemon

SSH and SFTP

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Planned PlatformsPlatform

Linux/SUSE Enterprise 9 (x86)

Linux/SUSE Enterprise 10 SP1 (x86)

Linux/Redhat Enterprise 4 (x86)

Linux/Redhat Enterprise 5 (x86)

AIX 5.3 (POWER)

AIX 6.1 (POWER)

HP-UX 11iv2 (PA-RISC/IA64)

HP-UX 11iv3 (PA-RISC/IA64)

Solaris 8 & 9 (SPARC)

Solaris 10 (x86/SPARC)

Linux/Redhat Enterprise 4 & 5 (x64)

Linux/SUSE Enterprise 10 SP1 (x64)

Planned FeaturesFeature

Deploy Agent to non-Windows System as part of Discovery Wizard

WS-Man based Agent channel

Caching of Events in case of network failure

Discover entities on non-Windows System post Agent deploy

Unit, aggregate and dependency monitors with Knowledge Articles

Collect and Monitor Performance counters from non-Windows System

Collect and Monitor Events from non-Windows Systems and store in Live DB and Datawarehouse DB

Diagnostics and Recoveries on non-Windows entity monitors

Tasks that execute simple commands on non-Windows System and return output to UI

Planned Features – Continued

Feature

Tasks that execute script on non-Windows System and return output to UI

Support for customized UI pages for non-Windows templates, monitors etc

Support for using non-Windows entities in Distributed Application Designed

Reports for data from non-Windows Systems and entities

Templates for creating custom monitoring rules and MPs

Agent Uninstall

Agent Upgrade

Fully data driven

DEMO

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Installation

• Integrated into OpsMgr R2 Installer• New Pre-Req checker for WS-

Management 1.1• Unix/Linux Agents are copied to the

OpsMgr Server• XSLTs are imported into database• Library MPs are automatically imported

DEMO. Installation

Configuration

• Import Management Packs• Create Run As Accounts• Associated Run As Accounts with Run As

Profiles

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Discovery Wizard

• Built on the Ops Mgr Discovery Wizard Framework

• Fully integrated into the Ops Mgr Discovery Wizard

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DiscoveryIP

Address

DNS Name

IP Range

Agent Installed

?Unix? Linux?

Discovery Result

Agent Installed

?

Insert in DB

Agent Supported

?Deploy

Package

Install/Upgrade Package

Validate Installation

Discover Complet

e

Phase1

Phase2

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Logfile Monitoring

• SU Command Execution• Root login failures• Critical authentication errors• Breakin attempts• SSH authentication failures• Successful login to root

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What about the Apps?

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Novell

• Planned MPs:• BIND/DNS• DHCP Server• SAMBA• NFS server• LDAP server (OpenLDAP)• Print server (CUPS)• Firewall (SuSEfirewall2)

Xandros

• Planned MPs:• Apache• MySQL• Oracle Db Server• VMWare ESX MP beta will be ready Q1.• OAS – Beta later in Q1• WebSphere – Beta later in Q1• Jboss – Beta later in Q1• Tomcat – Beta later in Q1• DB2 – Beta in Late Q1• Postgres – Beta in early Q2• Postfix – Beta in early Q2• Sendmail – Beta in early Q2

Planned Schedule

• Integrated into Operations Manager 2007 R2 at R2 Beta

• RC planned in Q1 2009 (at connect)• RTM planned in Q2 2009 (around MMS)

Tomorrow

Network Aware Service

ManagementService Level Monitoring

Web Services Management

Cross Platform Monitoring

Operations Manager 10

Call to action

• Cross Platform in Ops Mgr 2007 R2 Beta is available at MS Connect

• Ops Mgr 2007 R2 is on track for release in Q2 2009 around MMS US

• Discuss at MSFT news groups, connect and TechNet community

!! Remember, from now on, don't target “Agents” or “Computers” !!

Anders Bengtsson Björn Axéllanders@contoso.se

bjorn.axell@advisec.sewww.contoso.se www.advisec.se

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