Recovery Manager for AD Forest Edition 10.3 - User Guide

Importing Management Pack

To start using the Management Pack, you need to import it into Microsoft Operations Manager as described in the example below. For more information about importing, using, and removing Management Packs, refer to the documentation supplied with your version of Microsoft Operations Manager.

To import the Management Pack into Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

1. Start System Center Operations Manager Operations Console.

2. From the main menu, select Go | Administration.

3. In the left pane, right-click the Management Packs node, and then click Import Management Packs on the shortcut menu.

4. On the Select Management Packs page, click the Add button, and then click Add from disk.

5. If you are prompted to search the online catalog for the dependencies the Management Pack may have, click No.

6. Browse to select the Quest.Recovery.Manager.for.Active.Directory.xml or Quest.Recovery.Manager.for.Active.Directory.Limited.xml file supplied in the RMAD distribution package. When you are finished, click Open.

7. Click Install and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the Management Pack installation.

Rules provided in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

The next table lists the monitoring rules provided by the Management Pack in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager. The table also provides information on which of these rules are enabled or disabled by default.

SCOM rules

Health dashboards

In the SCOM Operations console, Recovery Manager for Active Directory (RMAD) components are represented as three health state views (separate for each type of objects) and two multi-level diagrams. There are three types of RMAD objects in these diagrams: Recovery Manager Console instances, Computer Collections existing in the Recovery Manager Console and Computers explicitly or implicitly added to Computer Collections. Each object has properties and health state determined by these properties.

In the multi-level diagrams All Components in Computer Collections and All Recovery Manager Console Instances under Monitoring | Quest Recovery Manager for Active Directory, health of upper-level components depends on the health of lower-level components.

RMAD object properties monitored by RMAD Management Pack

Recovery Manager Console

Regular Management Pack

• TargetComputer Display name of a RMAD console instance

• Version Version of a RMAD console instance

• IsForestEdition Indicates which edition of RMAD is used

Limited Management Pack

• TargetComputer Display name of a RMAD console instance

• Version Version of a RMAD console instance

• IsForestEdition Indicates which edition of RMAD is used

Computer Collection

Regular Management Pack

• DisplayName Display name of a computer collection

• ID Computer collection ID

• AgentSideBackupPath Remote storage

• ConsoleSideBackupPath Location of the backup storage on the RMAD Console side

• CollectFEMetaData Indicates what metadata is collected

• HasCollectionItems Indicates whether a computer collection has collection items

Limited Management Pack

• DisplayName Display name of a computer collection

• ID Computer collection ID

• AgentSideBackupPath Remote storage

• ConsoleSideBackupPath Location of the backup storage on the RMAD Console side

• CollectFEMetaData Indicates what metadata is collected

• HasCollectionItems Indicates whether a computer collection has collection items

Computer

Regular Management Pack

• TargetComputer Name of a domain controller

• LastSessionResult Result of the last backup session

• LastSessionDate Time stamp of the last backup session

• BackupExists Indicates whether a backup was created in the last 30 days

Limited Management Pack

• TargetComputer Name of a domain controller

Health checks performed by RMAD Management Pack

Recovery Manager Console

Regular Management Pack

• Checks whether there are computer collection in the RMAD console instance.

Limited Management Pack

• Does not perform any checks.

Computer Collection

Regular Management Pack

• Checks whether a computer collection has collection items.

Limited Management Pack

• Checks whether a computer collection has at least one domain controller.

• There are no alerts about empty collections or collections which have no backups in the last 30 days.

Computer

Regular Management Pack

• Checks whether a backup was created in the last 30 days. If there are no backups, the Management Pack generates the warning message.

-OR-

• Checks the result of the last backup session.

Limited Management Pack

• Does not request any data about completed backups or backup sessions.

• Does not check whether a backup was created in the last 30 days.

Recovering an Active Directory forest

• Forest recovery overview

• Deploying Recovery Manager for Active Directory Forest Edition (Disaster Recovery Edition)

• Permissions required to use Forest Recovery Console

• Forest Recovery Console

• Managing a recovery project

• Recovery methods

• Phased recovery

• Managing Forest Recovery Agent

• Rebooting domain controllers manually

• Resetting DSRM Administrator Password

• Purging Kerberos Tickets

• Managing the Global Catalog servers

• Managing FSMO roles

• Managing DNS Client Settings

• Configuring Windows Firewall

• Selectively recovering domains in a forest

• Recovering SYSVOL

• Deleting domains during recovery

• Resuming an interrupted forest recovery

• Recovering read-only domain controllers (RODCs)

• Checking forest health

• Collecting diagnostic data for technical support