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 [...]
System Center Opalis is a Windows solution for automating tasks that would normally be done by computer technicians monitoring computers and devices. Workflows are created visually for tasks using an Opalis client. In this article, I will show you how to create an automated e-mail notification in Opalis. This article already assumes you have deployed Opalis and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
