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How tho make an override for the SWAP Disks
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How to make an override for the monitor "Logical Disk Free Space" for all the SWAP Disks?
Out of the box the swap disks aren't discovered. Opsmgr knows the amount of cylinders, sectors, scsi ID and a lot of other stuff but doesn't know if there is separate disk that I use as a swap disk.
On all my servers I have a separate logical disk that I use as a SWAP disk. The size of this disk never change so I don't want to receive the alert about "not enough disk space". My C drive contains also the pagefile.sys but for the C drive I definitely whant to know if there is enough disk space.
So, here we have a challenge 
You can check out my procedure swap.pdf.
Kind Regards,
Alkin
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System Center Dataprotector Management Pack
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Microsoft released this week the DPM management pack for OpsMgr.
Feature Bullet Summary:
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Centrally monitor the health and state of data protection for multiple DPM servers and protected computers.
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In State Views, view consolidated state for protection activities in
DPM at a glance. For DPM servers, view the state of database and
service health, performance, and other indicators. For protected
computers, view the state of connectivity, data protection and recovery
operations.
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Monitor resource usage and performance trends on DPM servers.
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Monitor actionable DPM alerts relating to protection and recovery.
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Through MOM alerts, monitor the status of memory, CPU, and disk
resources on DPM servers, and find out about database and service
failures.
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Read Product Knowledge to get comprehensive practical information for diagnosing and resolving alerts.
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Use tasks to diagnose and resolve problems on remote DPM servers.
Reminder: Have a look here for a guide on how to use DPM to backup OpsMgr and how to use Opsmgr to monitor DPM.
Greetz,
ALkin
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How to override Min. Global catalog required
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You can find the procedur to change the min. global catalog required here.
Greetz,
Alkin
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Congrats for SCUG.NL
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Congratulations for SCUG.NL!!
Their first SCUG.NL meeting was great! Well organized, good presentations etc!
It was almost a 3 hour drive to zoetermeer from Belgium but is was worth it.
You can download the presentations on there website.
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First SCUG.NL meeting
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Our Dutch friends from SCUG.NL have their first meeting!!
The're going to give two level 300 presentations.
One about distributed applications and the other about management packs.
Check out http://scug.nl/blogs/arie/archive/2007/11/07/eerste-scug-bijeenkomst.aspx and register!!
Greetz,
Alkin
Edit: Just got the confirmation that I'm registered! See you there!
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Capacity models:
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Capacity models defines the performance characteristics of a specific application and its components and is stored within Capacity Planner. Capacity Planner uses these performance characteristics to simulate the performance of a deployed system.
At the moment only exchange 2007 is supported. Later on there will be also Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 models.
The models are based on System Architectural Models (*.SAM) . System architecture model consists of the following information:
- Topology: Site locations, types of networks, network components, and network characteristics (bandwidth, latency)
- Hardware: Server distribution and characteristics, server and network mapping
- Software: Server role and service mapping, file and storage device mapping
- Usage profiles: Site usage and client usage
Application Model Technology Review
Application models stored in Capacity Planner consist of the following:
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A list of transactions. A transaction is a single instance of activity or work, as perceived by a user of Exchange Server.
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A list of application components. Application components are discrete parts of an application. For example, the mailbox store is an Exchange Server application component.
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A list of workload parameters. Workload parameters are values that are used by a capacity model as part of an action (for example, how large an e-mail message to send through a network interface), part of a transaction (for example, how frequently this transaction occurs relative to other transactions), or part of the overall simulation (for example, how many transactions to send). You provide the values for workload parameters in the Model Wizard and the Model Editor.
Hardware Limitations in Capacity Planner Application Models
The hardware modeling limitations for Capacity Planner application models are described in the following table.
- Memory Capacity Planner does not actively model memory requirements. Memory requirement recommendations in Capacity Planner are based on best-practice advice for each application model.
- Disks Capacity Planner requires single-disk configurations to have write caching disabled. If write caching is enabled on single disks in a test environment, simulation results that are obtained from Capacity Planner do not correspond to the actual test results.
- CPUs As many as eight processors per server and two cores (dual core) per processor can be modeled.
- Switches and routers Performance is not modeled, although visual indicators for these items are included in the capacity model, appearing in the Model Editor.
- Firewalls are not modeled. Capacity Planner models only required infrastructure that affects performance.
Client computers Overall performance of client computers is not modeled, although network traffic to and from clients is modeled.
- LANs Only packet-switched Ethernet networks are modeled. All network connections are full duplex.
Greetz,Alkin
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Installation of System Center Capacity planner 2007 release candidate
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You can download the release candidate on the connect site.
Hardware Requirements
The following are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for System Center Capacity Planner:
- Intel Pentium or compatible 1 GHz or faster processor
- 512 MB of RAM
- 30 MB of available disk space on the drive on which you install System Center Capacity Planner
- CD-ROM drive
- XGA graphics adapter and monitor
| Note |
| Only 16-bit color or higher is supported. Only 96 DPI is supported. |
Supported Operating Systems
System Center Capacity Planner is supported on the following operating systems:
- The Windows Vista Ultimate operating system
- The Windows Vista Enterprise operating system
- The Windows Vista Business operating system
- The Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition operating system with Service Pack 2
- The Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Editions operating system with Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard Editions
- Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Editions
- The Windows XP Professional operating system with Service Pack 2
- The Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system with Service Pack 2
All localized versions of the operating systems listed are supported except right-to-left language versions.
Software Prerequisites
System Center Capacity Planner requires the following software:
No Upgrade from Previous System Center Capacity Planner Versions
You cannot upgrade to System Center Capacity Planner 2007 from any previous version of System Center Capacity Planner. You must remove a previous version and reinstall the latest version. However, any custom hardware that you have defined in the Model Editor is preserved.
| To uninstall a previous version of System Center Capacity Planner and reinstall |
- If your computer runs an operating system other than Windows Vista, uninstall System Center Capacity Planner by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
- If your computer runs Windows Vista, uninstall System Center Capacity Planner by using Programs and Features in Control Panel.
- If you have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (Beta or RC) installed on a computer with an operating system other than Windows Vista, remove it by using Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel.
- If you have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (Beta or RC) installed on a computer running Windows Vista, remove it by using Programs and Features in Control Panel.
- Install Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.
- Install System Center Capacity Planner by running Setup.exe.
Installation of System Center Capacity Planner:
Very straight forward. Just follow the wizard.
Conclusion
Installation of system center capacity planner is a peace of cake.
Now let's start playing with.
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Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability
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The
Operations Manager 2007 Performance and Scalability guide has been updated to include ACS. They have included a nice script that counts the local security events per second on a computer. The script can generate a .csv file to perform calculation afterwarts on the results.
The performance and scalability guide is available here
Notice that the official tool for performance and scalability will be the System Center Capacity planner .
Greetz,
Alkin