Tuesday, July 5, 2016

OpsMgr (SCOM) - Exchange 2013 Management Pack | How to

Finally i got my hands on this MP.
This new version is pretty better than the old one - the old one used to be 'heavy' and 'noisy' for some people, and since a my friend PFE told me that this new version is way better than the older version, and the fact that we're needing to monitor two Exchange Servers for a specific client, i gave it a shot.

So - download the MP, and install it!

After you installed it, the *.mp files will be located at
"C:\Program Files (x86)\System Center Management Packs\SC Management Pack for Exchange 2013"

So, open up Operations Manager Console and import the MP files.


Then, you need to create a domain user account that will take care of some of the management pack workflows, and create a Windows Run As Account in Operations Manager Console:



For best practices propose, choose to manually select the computers that will receive this account.


After you import the management pack, it'll create a Run As profile named "Microsoft Exchange 2013 SDK Monitoring Run As Profile" that you'll need to associate the previously created Run As account - you might noticed that i created a SCOM group to have (in my case) two Exchange Servers, and i pointed the profile to that group.



After that, you'll notice that you'll be receiving data - this is the Summary Dashboard :


These are your views:



That's it!
Hope it could be useful :)

Cheers,

5 comments:

  1. For me - "Exchange IIS Application Pool" and "Mailbox Database Copy" state views are showing Not monitored state. What I am missing here or what should I enabled for these two views. Please help me.

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    1. Those views are correct, you didn't miss anything!
      Those objects are only created so you can co-relate objects and have performance counters from them.
      All of the monitors of this MP are set by your exchange server, and this monitoring is set on Health Set.

      Hope this might help you out,

      Cheers,

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  2. Same problem here... MAilbox database copy, IIS APP Pool, Windows services are showing not monitored.

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  3. Same problem..... What to do here....

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