System Center Operations Manager 2012: Management Pack

After the discovery and installation of Agents, we are now going to install the Management Pack. A management pack extends the SCOM’s monitoring ability. With SQL Server Management Pack, SCOM can monitor the jobs, the state of each database, free spaces on each etc.

On this guide, we will install and configure SQL Server and SharePoint Management Pack.

Open Operations Manager Console.

Go to Administration Pane

Right Click on the Management Pack > Import Management Pack

Navigate to where you installed the SQL Server Management Pack and Select all.

Click OK

Click Install.

After installing the Management Pack, we will configure the Accounts our Management Pack will use to monitor those SQL Server Machines.

Administration > Run as Configuration > Accounts

Click Create Run As Account

Click Next

Run as account Type: Windows

We will add the Domain Administrator to the Run As Account.

 

Choose Less Secure

Click Next

Click Close to close the Wizard.

After creating the Run As Account, we are going to configure that service account on the SQL Server Default Action Account, SQL Server Discovery Account and SQL Server Monitoring Account on the Profiles.

Double Click on the SQL Server Default Action Account.

Click Next.

Click Next

Add the Windows Account configured a while ago

Click OK.

Click Save

 

Click Close.

Now just sit back and wait for the Management Pack to be loaded and propagated to the Agents. Soon we will see all the MOnitors, Tasks, and State of the SQL Server on the Monitoring Pane.

 

There is another way of importing the Management Pack on SCOM. This is by downloading it directly using SCOM.

Go to Administration > Management Pack > Right Click > Download Management Pack

Choose which Management Pack to be downloaded.

Click OK

Click Download

Close

 

 

Select Management Pack from Catalog

Select and Install

If there are Dependencies, it will prompt for a download.

Click Install

 

And there! we have managed to setup SQL Server Management Pack and even download and install SharePoint Management Pack.

Remember that each Management Pack has a different Profile, service accounts and how to install and configure. You need to read all the document pertaining to each management pack for it to work in SCOM.

Enjoy