Satya Vel has posted a good entry on the Operations Manager Product Team Blog concerning Network Bandwidth Utilization for the various OpsMgr 2007 Roles. As a follow-up to Satya's comments on bandwidth utilization, I have posted the below graphic illustrating bandwidth used by 150 agents of each MOM version (MOM 2005 and SCOM 2007). Excellent improvement to say the least. Now if they would only resolve the console performance....
http://helpmemanage.googlepages.com/MOMvsSCOMUsageovertime.JPG
I've completed registration for IT Forum in Barcelona. Drop me a line if you are attending and we can grab drinks!
jss
I've recently had a few queries on firewall ports from SCOM. The following table describes the necessary firewall requirements for the Root/Management Server, Agent, Operations Console and Web Console components:
Point A | Point B | Port |
Root/Management Server | Operations Manager Database | 1433 |
Management Server | Root Management Server | 5723 |
Agent | Management Server | 5723 |
Operations Console | Root Management Server | 5724 |
Web Browser | Web Console Server | 51908 |
The following table describes the necessary firewall requirements when using Gateway Severs:
Point A | Direction | Point B | Port |
Root Management Server | <-> | Gateway Server | 5723 |
Gateway Server | <- | Agent | 5723 |
Management Server | <-> | Gateway Server | 5723 |
Gateway Server | <-> | Gateway Server | 5723 |
Microsoft has released Windows Server 2008 RC0. See below download locations.
Windows Web Server 2008 RC0 - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d977fde8-d3fb-4e6c-8a8a-352cf83111cc&DisplayLang=en
Windows Server 2008 RC0 Standard Edition - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d694d4cc-0681-41b5-b02e-012be18f8b71&DisplayLang=en
Windows Server 2008 RC0 for Itanium-based Systems - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=07ec6bea-b14e-4f73-98c6-eb7a92e76b05&DisplayLang=en
Windows Server 2008 RC0 Enterprise - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0818d425-cd47-4279-be8d-24aba14530a3&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 RC0 Datacenter - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95cc89a8-0076-4571-b379-4aa4f526b893&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate: System Requirements and Installation Documentation - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1087a498-40ad-46ba-9ada-f32a58a94a85&displaylang=en&tm
Windows Server 2008 Media Services
Windows Media Services 2008 for Windows Server 2008 RC0
Windows Server 2008 Learning Portal
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/windowsserver2008/default.mspx
Windows Server 2008 Technical Overviews
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/2008/default.aspx
Windows Server 2008 Technical Library
Windows Server 2008 Step-By-Steps
Windows Server 2008 Security Guild
Windows Server 2008 Component Posters
Windows Server 2008 Virtualization
Release Notes: http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/4/8/e48d5cff-53d2-4eed-85bf-4af50e25b78c/relnotes.htm
Product Overview: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0fe4e411-8c88-48c2-8903-3fd9cbb10d05&DisplayLang=en
Installing (BLOG): http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2007/09/24/windows-server-virtualization-community-technology-preview-now-available.aspx
FTP7
Microsoft released the newest version of our FTP server for Windows Server 2008 Release Candidate 0 (RC0)!
Listed below are the links for the download pages for each of the individual installation packages:
FTP 7 (x86) Installation Package
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=87847
FTP 7 (x64) Installation Package
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=89114
"The Operations Manager team is making good progress on readying the first Service Pack for the OpsMgr 2007 product. Note that final (RTM) release of the Service Pack 1 release is targeted for mid-February 2008.
The high level themes of this service pack are:
After spending several months working with the gang at SecureVantage, I am pleased that we have selected them as our security solution for Operations Manager 2007. While a number of their management packs are in RC at the moment, the ACS reporting and archival has already proved to be extremely valuable to us. I have loaded many of their RC packs for testing and look forward with *great* excitement to their IIS and SQL auditor pack scheduled for release this summer.
I went to pull a listing of failed SQL jobs from Operations Manager a while back and found that there is no report to provide this information. I wrote a quick report to gather this information from the Operations Manager data warehouse. Grab the rdl and/ sql script from the links below.
--SQL Failed Jobs SQL query (.sql)
--Failed SQL Jobs report (.rdl)
Jeff
