System Center 2012 Server Management Licensing
System Center 2012 server management licensing dramatically simplifies how you purchase the management capabilities you need to get the most from your private cloud. The System Center 2012 server management solution is offered in two editions: Standard and Datacenter. Both editions include all the System Center features and capabilities you need to manage your private cloud. Editions are differentiated only by virtualization rights. Simply choose the appropriate edition for each server you want to manage and start taking advantage of the capabilities you need to accomplish your goals.
Figure 1: Server Management License Options
*VMs are equivalent to managed operating system environments (OSEs).
System Center 2012 Client Management Licensing
System Center 2012 client management licensing provides simple, cost-effective options to manage and protect client systems. Customers can purchase individual client management licenses for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager, System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection, and System Center 2012 Client Management Suite. Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection are also licensed as part of the Core CAL suite, and Client Management Suite is available as part of the Enterprise CAL suite.
Figure 2: Client Management License Options
Posted in Roadmap.
Tagged with Best Practice, Case Study, OpsMgr, SCOM.
By admin
– January 23, 2012
When updating OpsMgr management packs the easiest way to do this is to show “Updates available for Installed Management Packs” in the console. When doing this only the existing imported MP’s are updated.
If the MP is updated with new additional monitoring features it will not show up as needing an update. So if you use the console you will miss new ones.
Because of this I do not recommend using the console update feature but download the MSI from the catalog on the web at http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com and extract them, if not you will end up missing MP’s you need.
Example below what updates you miss when updating the OS MP automatically from the console.
Posted in Management Packs.
Tagged with Agent, Best Practice, Documentation, Download, Hotfix, Management Packs, MP, OpsMgr, R2, SCOM, System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Essentials 2010, Update.
By admin
– December 14, 2011
Today I got the third customer who got issues with SCOM. After some investigating is seemed that almost all discovery scripts on the agents were blocked.
Antivirus is very sensitive for the SCOM agent especially McAfee. I Looked at the exclusions but everything looked OK.
Further investigating resulted that all of the machines upgraded to McAfee 8.8 had issues
Looking in the processes we seen a lot of CSCRIPTS and they were using excessive CPU cycles which caused poor server performance.
Furthermore there where a lot alerts Workflow Initialization: Failed to start a workflow that runs a process or script.
After some contact with McAfee, yesterday McAfee released Patch 1 for McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.8 which should resolve this issue.
Also there is a work around for the issue: https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=KB71660
Posted in Antivirus.
Tagged with Agent, Best Practice, Event, Hotfix, OpsMgr, performance, R2, SCE 2010, SCOM, Script.
By Willemjan
– November 16, 2011
Regarding my blog post on HP monitoring I get a lot of questions on errors which are generated by the HP management pack / SNMP hardware logs; these errors are displayed in the Computer State not in the Active Alerts.
The description is very poor but it suggests that there are issues in the HP Hardware logs.
Context:
Date and Time: 11/11/2011 10:20:52 AM
Property Name Property Value
Processors_SNMP.HealthState
HealthSuccess Cooling_SNMP.
HealthState HealthSuccess
RealtimeMonitors_SNMP.HealthState
HealthSuccess TemperatureSensors_
SNMP.HealthState HealthSuccess
Logs_SNMP.HealthState HealthError
Logs_SNMP.FailedComponent
Integrated Management Log Server
Others_SNMP.HealthState HealthSuccess
Health explorer
The issue is in the computer’s local HP log which is in a bad state and has errors which are not resolved (cleared or fixed).
Therefore it will stay in bad state. The solution is most of the time very simple.
Clearing the HP log on the local server and resetting the OpsMgr heath state will solve the issue.
Posted in Management Packs.
Tagged with Agent, Best Practice, HP, Management Packs, MP, OpsMgr, R2, SCE 2010, SCOM.
By Willemjan
– October 27, 2011
I’m proud to pronounce that last week our Case Study of OpsMgr in combination with SharePoint 2010 and Visio 2010 went online.
VU University Amsterdam focuses on scientific research and education. Approximately 5,200 employees working in 12 faculties serve 23,000 students.
Recently, VU University Amsterdam decided to standardize its IT infrastructure. We deployed Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to monitor its global IT environment. However, service-desk employees found the large amount of technical data furnished by the monitoring solution time-consuming to decipher.
Therefore VU deployed together with Advantive Microsoft Visio 2010, which links directly to the monitoring solution through the Microsoft Visio 2010 Add-in for System Center Operations Manager 2007.
Click here for the complete case study.
Posted in Best Practice.
Tagged with Best Practice, Case Study, Documentation, Download, OpsMgr, R2, SCOM, Step by step.
By Willemjan
– October 17, 2011
