Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager

Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager is an enterprise operations management system that allows you to monitor services, devices, and operations from a single console. You can see state, health, and performance information and gather performance and configuration alerts. Management packs are pre-configured collections of these capabilities focused on managing a specific application or hardware type, which can be easily exported and imported into other System Center environments. The Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate 2012 Management Pack was created to help you monitor Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate operations.

You must have System Center 2012 R1 SP1 or later. Ideally, your Systems Center environment should be fully patched. Also, you should already have the Operations Manager agents deployed to each Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate server that you want to monitor. See your System Center documentation for details on agents.

The Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate 2012 Management Pack is sealed and is distributed as four .mpb files that are imported using the Operations console.

If you have the Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate SCOM 2007 management pack, you must uninstall it before importing the Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate 2012 management packs. You cannot upgrade it.

 

1. First you need to install the Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate 2012 Management Pack using the following basic guidelines. See the Operations Manager documentation for complete installation details.
   1. Download the management pack zip file and unzip it, or start the Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate installation and when the installation landing page appears, select the Get the SCOM 2012 Management Pack link and then unzip the management pack file.
   2. Copy the four .mpb files from the unzipped file to your Operations server.
   3. From the Operations console, click Administration.
   4. Right-click Management Packs and select Import Management Pack.
   5. Click Add then click Add from disk.
   6. Navigate to the location of the .mpb files, select the four files, and click Open.
   7. The Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate management pack does not have any dependencies. When you see the green checkmark indicating the management packs can be imported, click Install.
   8. Click Close when the import is complete.
2. Next you will need to apply a run as account in order to use the Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate 2012 Management Pack. This run as account provides authentication for each Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate server. If desired, you can apply multiple run as accounts, for example if your Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate servers are in different domains.
   1. From the Operations console, click Administration, Run As Configuration, Profiles.
   2. Right-click on the Vision Solutions Double-Take Action Account and select Properties.
   3. Review the introduction and click Next, unless this page was previously set to no longer display.
   4. Review the general properties and if desired add an optional description. Click Next to continue.
   5. Click Add to select or create the run as accounts to use.
   6. Select a user from the Run As account list or click New to create a new run as account. If you are creating a new run as account, follow the Create Run As Account Wizard using steps f1 through f6.
      1. Review the introduction and click Next, unless this page was previously set to no longer display.
      2. Select the Windows type, provide a descriptive Display name, and click Next.
      3. Specify an account that has access to your Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate servers and click Next.
      4. Select your security option. The more secure security is recommended, but is not required. See your Operations Manager documentation for details on the security options.
      5. Click Create.
      6. Click Close.
   7. Confirm the account you just created or an account you already had is selected for the Run As account.
   8. Select what objects you want the run as account to manage. See your Operations Manager documentation for details on the objects.
   9. Click OK to return to the Run As Profile Wizard.
   10. If desired, add any additional run as accounts. When you are finished adding the run as accounts, click Save.
   11. Click Close. If you choose the less secure security option for your run as account, you are now finished. If you choose the more secure security option for your run as account, continue with the remaining steps.
   12. Back in the Operations console, click Administrator, Run As Configuration, Accounts.
   13. Right-click on the account you just applied to your Vision Solutions Double-Take Action Account and select Properties.
   14. Select the Distribution tab.
   15. Click Add and select the computers that you want the run as account to be distributed to.
   16. Locate, select, and Add the computers and then click OK.
   17. Click OK again.

Once your management packs are installed and your run as account is applied, go to the Monitoring page in your Operations console and you will see a Vision Solutions folder and a Double-Take subfolder where you will find your various alerts and views for your Carbonite Availability and Carbonite Migrate servers.