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Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

You're reading from   Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Using SCOM 2016 TP 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289743
Length 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin Greene Kevin Greene
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Preface 1. Introduction to System Center Operations Manager FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing System Center Operations Manager 3. Exploring the Consoles 4. Deploying Agents 5. Working with Management Packs 6. Managing Network Devices 7. Configuring Service Models with Distributed Applications 8. Alert Tuning the Easy Way 9. Visualizing Your IT with Dashboards 10. Creating Alert Subscriptions and Reports 11. Backing Up, Maintenance and Troubleshooting Index

Minimum installation requirements

When the time comes to perform your first installation of OpsMgr, it's important to understand all of the minimum requirements that must be in place before you begin.

OpsMgr Sizing Helper tool

The OpsMgr Sizing Helper tool is an interactive Excel document designed to assist you with planning and sizing your deployments. As shown in Figure 1.2, you can choose from a number of different configuration scenarios and all you need to have is a rough idea of what it is that you actually need to monitor.

OpsMgr Sizing Helper tool

Figure 1.3: OpsMgr Sizing Helper Tool

This should be the go-to tool that you use prior to every OpsMgr deployment that you do. Although the information it feeds back to you is to be used purely as a guide, it goes a long way to ensure that your designs are aligned as close to best-practice recommendations as possible. You can download the tool from http://tinyurl.com/opsmgrsizing.

Virtualization support

All OpsMgr features are fully supported by Microsoft to run in a virtual environment that meets the minimum requirements outlined in the OpsMgr Sizing Helper tool. Purely for performance reasons, Microsoft recommends running the OpsMgr SQL databases on physical disks rather than on virtual disks but this is only a recommendation and there is no issue if you want to deploy the databases in a virtual environment, assuming of course, that you have configured the underlying storage where your virtual disks are located according to best practice recommendations for SQL workloads.

You also have the option of running some or your entire OpsMgr environment on Microsoft Azure for the following three recommended scenarios:

  • You run OpsMgr on a Microsoft Azure virtual machine and use it to monitor other Microsoft Azure virtual machines
  • You run OpsMgr on a Microsoft Azure virtual machine and use it to monitor instances that are not running on Microsoft Azure
  • You run OpsMgr on-premises and use it to monitor Microsoft Azure virtual machines

Database requirements

If you're running OpsMgr 2012 R2, then the following versions of SQL Server are supported to host the databases:

  • SQL Server 2014 SP1, Standard and Enterprise
  • SQL Server 2014, Standard and Enterprise
  • SQL Server 2012 SP2, Standard and Enterprise
  • SQL Server 2012 SP1, Standard and Enterprise
  • SQL Server 2012, Standard and Enterprise
  • SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2, Standard and Datacenter
  • SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1, Standard and Datacenter

If you're running OpsMgr 2016, then your SQL choice is slightly more limited:

  • SQL Server 2016, Standard and Enterprise
  • SQL Server 2014 SP1, Standard and Enterprise
  • SQL Server 2014, Standard and Enterprise
  • SQL Server 2012 SP2, Standard and Enterprise

Operating system requirements

The following operating systems are supported to run OpsMgr 2012 R2:

  • Windows Server 2012 R2, Standard and Datacenter
  • Windows Server 2012, Standard and Datacenter
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2
  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

OpsMgr 2016 can be deployed on these operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2016, Standard and Datacenter
  • Windows Server 2012 R2, Standard and Datacenter

Web console requirements

If you deploy the OpsMgr 2012 R2 Web Console role, the following Internet Explorer and Silverlight versions are supported:

  • Internet Explorer 8 and higher
  • Silverlight 5

The OpsMgr 2016 Web Console has the following requirements:

  • Internet Explorer 11 and higher
  • Silverlight 5

Firewall requirements

In the following table, we can see the TCP port numbers and outgoing directions that the various OpsMgr features require. This information can be useful when configuring communication across firewalls in your organization.

From feature

TCP port number and direction

To feature

Management server

1433→

Operational database

Management server

1433→

Data Warehouse database

Management server

5723,5724→

Management server

Reporting server

5723,5724→

Management server

Reporting server

1433→

Data Warehouse database

Gateway server

5723→

Management server

Operations console

5724→

Management server

Operations console (Reports)

80, 443→

SQL Reporting services

Web Console browser

51908→

Web Console server

Windows agent

5723→

Management server

Management server

135→

Windows agent

(RPC for push install)

Management server

445→

Windows agent

(SMB for push install)

Management server

139→

Windows agent

(RPC for push repair)

Management server

1270→

UNIX/Linux agent

Management server

22→

UNIX/Linux agent

(Remote management)

Connector framework source

51905→

Management server

Connected management server

(Local)

5724→

Connected management server

(Remote)

AEM data from client

51906→

Management server AEM file share

ACS collector

1433→

ACS database

ACS forwarder

51909→

Management Server ACS collector

Although the majority of firewall ports required for OpsMgr are TCP-based, the following table lists the UDP port numbers and the direction they should be enabled for:

From feature

UDP port number and direction

To feature

Management server

137→

Windows agent

(push install)

Management server

138→

Windows agent

(push install)

Management server

445→

Windows agent

(push install)

Management server

1434→

Operational database

Management server

1434→

Data Warehouse database

SNMP network device

161→

Management server

Management server

161→

SNMP network device

SNMP network device

162→

Management server

Management server

162→

SNMP network device

Windows agent requirements

If you need to deploy an OpsMgr 2012 R2 agent to your Windows estate for monitoring, then the following is a list of supported server and client operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
  • Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 2008 Server R2 SP1, Windows 2008 Server SP2
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1, Windows 8
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 7 Embedded
  • Windows Vista SP2
  • Windows XP Pro SP3, SP2
  • Windows XP Embedded

For OpsMgr 2016 agents, the following Windows server and client operating systems are supported:

  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012
  • Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
  • Windows 2008 Server R2, Windows 2008 Server R2 SP1, Windows 2008 Server SP2
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1, Windows 8 
  • Windows 7
  • Windows 7 Embedded
  • Windows Vista SP2

UNIX/Linux agent requirements

A wide range of cross-platform operating systems are supported and the following list details the versions you can monitor with both OpsMgr 2012 R2 and OpsMgr 2016:

  • HP-UX 11i V3/V2 (PA-RISC and Itanium)
  • Oracle Solaris 11/10 (SPARC and x86)
  • Oracle Solaris 9 (SPARC)
  • Oracle Linux 7 (x64)
  • Oracle Linux 6/5 (x86/x64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6/5/4 (x86/x64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (x64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11/10 (x86/x64)
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (x86)
  • IBM AIX 7.1/6.1/5.3 (POWER)
  • CentOS 7 (x64)
  • CentOS 6/5 (x86/x64)
  • Debian 7/6/5 (x86/x64)
  • Ubuntu Server 14.04/12.04/10.04 (x86/x64)
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