This is my 3rd article on Opalis. You can check my other two articles out here: http://www.misdivision.com/blog/creating-an-automated-e-mail-notification-in-opalis and http://www.misdivision.com/blog/integrating-opalis-with-system-center-essentials. This time, I will show you how to create a policy that will look at Windows services. The policy will check to see if a service is stopped or paused and if so, the policy will attempt [...]
In my last article, I talked briefly about Opalis and its ability to automate monitoring tasks. Opalis can also work hand in hand with SCE (System Center Essentials), taking advantage of the wide array of built in alerting and monitoring of SCE and combining it with the easy-to-understand workflow and automation that Opalis offers. Opalis [...]
It is important that you follow the correct procedure to resolve this error. A very common mistake for users new to administrating SCE/SCOM is to simply go into the services console and change the service accounts around. This can then lead to further errors, going so far as to completely bricking your SCE installation and requiring a reinstall.
SCE(System Center Essentials) 2010 provides a great collection of monitors from the first time you use it. Monitors in SCE look at the performance and availibility of your servers along with other things; if there seems to be a problem, a monitor raises an alert which can be seen in the SCE management console. SCE takes that [...]
Notifications are a great way to get important alert information from SCE(System Center Essentials) wherever you happen to be. Notifications can be received by e-mail, text, or IM. You can customize notifications so that the right people get the right information in the right way. In this tutorial, I will show you how to set [...]
SCE(System Center Essentials) 2010 allows administrators to easily manage updates for computers in a production environment. During SCE installation, you can specify whether or not SCE will create a group object on your domain’s active directory domain controllers for SCE managed computers; by default, the installation wizard creates an SCE managed computers group object in active [...]
Agents allow the SCE(System Center Essentials) server to talk to all managed servers. During deployment, SCE can be set up to automatically discover computers or specific groups of computers in the domain SCE was deployed on; alternatively, SCE can be initially configured to only allow manual discovery of computers. Which ever way SCE is deployed, in [...]
Prior to Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 it was not supported to protect computers which were not members of your Domain. Additionally, nor was it possible to protect a computer which was not a member of any domain. That has all changed, and it’s now easier than ever to protect your data.
System Center Essentials is a new management solution from Microsoft geared toward midsized businesses. It offers centralized IT management for monitoring server health, gathering data, and deploying updates. System Center Essentials 2010 now offers the ability to manage virtual servers as well as physical servers from a single console. New features in Essentials 2010 include Virtual Machine [...]
