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3 Dell Compellent Storage Center Management Pack 3.0 for Microsoft SCOM 2012/R2 Best Practices
Table of contents
Revisions ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive summary .......................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1 Preface ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Documentation for previous release of the management pack ............................................................................ 6
1.2 Customer support ........................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................ 7
2.1 Dell Compellent Storage Center overview ................................................................................................................. 7
2.2 Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 ......................................................................................... 7
2.3 Dell Compellent Storage Center Management Pack 3.0 ........................................................................................ 7
2.4 SCOM data collection overview ................................................................................................................................... 8
3 Management Pack installation and configuration ............................................................................................................... 9
3.1 Upgrading from Management Pack 2.0 ...................................................................................................................... 9
3.2 Uninstalling the Management Pack from SCOM ...................................................................................................... 9
4 Management Pack components ........................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1 Active alerts .................................................................................................................................................................... 12
4.1.1 Threshold alerts ............................................................................................................................................................. 13
4.1.2 Closing alerts ................................................................................................................................................................. 13
4.2 Replication monitoring ................................................................................................................................................ 13
4.3 Dashboards .................................................................................................................................................................... 14
4.4 WMI Provider.................................................................................................................................................................. 16
5 Overrides ................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
5.1 Creating an override from the Monitoring pane ..................................................................................................... 18
5.2 Creating an override from the Authoring pane ....................................................................................................... 19
5.3 Setting override properties .......................................................................................................................................... 24
6 Troubleshooting....................................................................................................................................................................... 28
6.1 Troubleshooting the WMI Provider installation ....................................................................................................... 28
6.2 WMI Provider logging ................................................................................................................................................... 30
6.3 Event viewer logs .......................................................................................................................................................... 31
6.4 Enterprise Manager memory settings ....................................................................................................................... 33
6.4.1 Modifying memory settings on an existing Enterprise Manager installation ...................................................... 33
6.5 SQL database settings .................................................................................................................................................. 35