Recovery Manager for AD 10.1 - User Guide

Monitoring Recovery Manager for Active Directory

Recovery Manager for Active Directory release package contains RMAD Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) that allows you to monitor the backup and restore operations performed by Recovery Manager for Active Directory. Also the Management Pack is used to check the health and availability of the Recovery Manager Console instances, Computer Collections and computers added to Computer Collections.

There are two editions of RMAD Management Packs for SCOM: Regular and Limited. By default, it is recommended to use the Regular edition of Management Pack.

Limited Management Pack contains reduced health state dashboards in comparison with the Regular edition. Only the RMAD event log is used for alert generating to reduce the computational load produced by the Management Pack.

• Supported versions of Microsoft Operations Manager

• Importing Management Pack

• Rules provided in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

• Health dashboards

Supported versions of Microsoft Operations Manager

This Management Pack is designed for the following versions of Microsoft Operations Manager:

• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1

• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012

• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1

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 Recovery Manager for Active Directory 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