Hello againg guys, Please I need your help! Can you tell me what are the Management Packs that I should have definitely on my SCOM Servers? I know that depends on the products/services that I want to monitor, but I mean a must management pack must exist always on my SCMO server/s? thanks in advance for the help and support. Regards,

Other then that comes out of box, Windows server operating system MP is must :) If you have other System center products like SCCM, SCSM then along with those application specific MP's get SQL, IIS MP's as well Active directory MP can be added. Then rest are based on your requirements. Ground Rule: Always read the MP guide before deployment. Also if you have test environment, deploy MP there and monitor it before deploying in production.~Cheers, Rohit Kochher

Hi I'd suggest starting slowly with just the windows management pack while you are learning SCOM concepts around targetting, overrides, reports etc. http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/storing-overrides-good-bad-and-ugly.html http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2010/09/02/operations-manager-101-download.aspx Sadly the MSFT marketing is all about deploying quickly and very little about planning - guess that is just the way it goes. It is easy to deploy a few hundred agents and a dozen management packs in a couple of days and then spend months managing operations manager alerts rather than having operations manager manage your environment. Be aware that there is only so much you can do with a Test and UAT environment. It will give you an idea of what is being monitored but you can't set an override against a production server unless that server is being monitored (as it won't be a selectable object in the console). Here is what I generally recommend for a few hundred servers. It is personal but it works for me! And the basis of this is do one thing at a time and get it right before moving on to the next. 1) Have an alert management process in place before you start. You'll have to fine tune it as the deployment progresses. But if you install Windows, AD, SQL, Exchange, IIS, Cluster, Hardware MPs then the next thing is you'll have a console full of alerts and no process for managing them. A sure recipe for disaster. 2) Deploy slowly - get core components, agents and windows management pack deployed. This means that you are not fire fighting on multiple fronts (e.g. with AD, Exchange, SQL, IIS etc alerts). Just get the agents in and sorted. Get the windows MP in and sorted. The Windows Management Pack is ideal for this as the alerts it generates are usually actionable, relevant and relatively straight forward to resolve so administrators can get familiar with OpsMgr in a fairly controlled environment that is still providing real benefit to the organisation 3) Prioritise other MPs - After windows, I like to get SQL in next as it is a relatively stable MP with less noise than AD, Exchange .. but still gives good business benefit. But deploy the MP and spend time fine tuning it. Make sure you are happy that the alerts you get are actionable. Then move on. 4) Repeat slowly .. MP by MP ... the AD alerts you get might be relevant, they might not be. Even the relevant ones might take time to resolve. Same with Exchange. Expect it to take a few weeks to a couple months to deploy fully rather than days depending on the size of your environment and how much fine tuning of management packs is required (plus how long it takes to fix any problems identified). As for fixing alert versus override - that is part of the alert management process. It might be an issue that is very real but sadly can't be fixed in the short term. You have options - create an override to stop the alert but have a seperate "To do" list that you work through and remove the override when the task is done. Or you can create a resolution state of "On going" and rather than create an override put the alert into that state. It depends very much on the alert and how quickly the underlying problem can be resolved. Cheers GrahamRegards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Thanks guys for the replies, it was useful. Regards,