Transcript Opalis System Center Integration Packs Deep Dive David Allen Principal Consultant Infront Consulting Group.

Opalis System Center
Integration Packs Deep Dive
David Allen
Principal Consultant
Infront Consulting Group
David Allen
@aquilaweb
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http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb
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Agenda
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IT Process Automation with System Center
Opalis bringing System Center together
The power of Opalis
System Center Integration Packs
DEMO – Building a Policy
DEMO – Virtual Machine Provisioning
Wrap-Up
Q&A
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Investing in IT Process Automation?
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How does System Center provide ITPA?
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Consistency
Compliance
Cohesion
Removal of the manual
The ability to choose
Opalis History
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Opalis is a mature solution set
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Founded in 1999
Current version is 6.3 (Nov 2010)
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Acquired by Microsoft in December
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Opalis is a subsidiary of Microsoft
• The current version of Opalis is a
grant to Microsoft customers
Opalis brings System Center together!
Service Manager
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Opalis Concepts
• Activities
• Intelligent tasks that perform defined actions
• Integration Packs
• The way Opalis integrates to and executes activities against
other systems and solutions
• Databus
• The mechanism Opalis uses to publish and consume
information between activities as the runbook executes
• Runbooks
• System level workflows that execute a series of linked
activities to complete a defined set of actions
The Power of the Opalis solution
• Market-tested
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Currently on 6th version of product which has seen broad
customer adoption for a variety of use cases
• Easy authoring and debugging
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Drag and drop, Visio-like authoring, nested runbooks, built in
features like looping and branching.
• Databus
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Abstracts developer-level complexity from the runbook author
and enables Hub-and-spoke integration model
Out of box Integration Packs
All major enterprise products covered (HP, IBM, CA, BMC, EMC)
Easy extensibility
Quick Integration Kit (QIK)
Operations console
Role-based views provide visibility to the runbooks
Cost
All Management licensing vehicles (SMSE/D, ECI, e-CAL and
SPLA) include a license grant for Opalis.
System Center Integration
Packs
Opalis Integration Server 6.3
System Center Operations Manager
• Requirements
• OIS 6.3
• Operations Manager 2007 R2
• Operations Manager console on
each Action Server and Client
• Connection
• Link between OIS & Root
Management Server
• Multiple connections to a single
or many management groups
• 8 Activities
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What’s Possible?
• Start & stop maintenance mode
• Monitor for alerts and object state changes
• Update alerts
• Generate Alerts
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System Center Configuration Manager
• Requirements
• OIS 6.3
• Configuration Manager 2007
RTM or newer
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• Link between OIS &
Configuration Manager site
server
• Multiple connections to a
single or many site servers
• 11 Activities
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What’s Possible?
• Advertise task sequences
• Create, delete and refresh collections
• Add computers to collections
• Create advertisements
• Deploy software update & get compliance
• Refresh client
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager
• Requirements
• OIS 6.3
• Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2
• Windows Management
Framework
• Connection
• PowerShell Remoting
• Connection required for each
VMM server
• 23 Activities
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What’s Possible?
• Manage the self-service virtual machine library
• Create virtual machine resources such as disks, virtual hard
disks, and network adapters
• Create virtual machines from templates, VHDs, and from other
virtual machines Modify existing virtual machines
• Turn on and shut down virtual machines in batch mode
• Move virtual machines between hosts
• Create and restore virtual machine checkpoints
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System Center Data Protection Manager
• Requirements
• OIS 6.3
• Windows Management
Framework
• Data Protection Manager 2010
• Connection
• PowerShell Remoting
• Connection required for each
DPM server
• 8 Activities
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What’s Possible?
• Protect supported data sources, such as SQL, Exchange,
SharePoint & Hyper-V
• Recover SharePoint, SQL and VMs
• Query DPM server capacity
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System Center Service Manager
• Requirements
• OIS 6.3
• Service Manager 2010
• ENU Locale
• U.S. English Date Format
• Connection
• Polling for Monitor activities
• Reconnect interval
• Multiple connection to a single or
many Service Manager servers
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What’s Possible?
• Monitor, Create and Update items, such as:
• Change Requests
• Incident Records
• Problem Records
• Relationships
• Activities
• Configuration Items
• And more….
• Co-ordinate and use operational data
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DEMO
Building a Workflow
DEMO
Virtual Machine Provisioning
Wrap-Up
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Opalis Overview
Integration pack requirements
Integration pack uses
Building a runbook
Troubleshooting
Provisioning a virtual machine
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Useful Resources
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http://www.microsoft.com/opalis
http://blogs.technet.com/b/opalis
http://technet.microsoft.com
http://www.contoso.se
http://opalis.codeplex.com
http://wmug.co.uk/blogs/aquilaweb
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System Center Orchestrator
Watch for
System Center Orchestrator
later this year!
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