Tag Archives: connector

It’s all about the Service

Posted on 03/05/2012 by

When talking about monitoring and management IT people tend to focus on infrastructure components like servers, network devices etc. This is indeed important, but even more interesting is to have an eye on your applications and services that are consumed … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Service Manager CMDB with System Center Orchestrator

Posted on 07/04/2012 by

One thing you have to keep in mind with Private Cloud Computing is the fact that requirements for CMDB change dramatically. Not only that your CMDB needs to manage new classes (e.g. Virtualization Hosts, Hypervisors, Guests, Clouds etc.) and Relationships … Continue reading →

Posted in Automation with Opalis, Classes and Relations, Connectors, Managing Objects | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

News in SCSM12 (Beta) #8 – Permissions for triggering System Center Orchestrator runbooks

Posted on 12/11/2011 by

This question comes up a lot: “What permissions are needed to trigger runbooks in System Center Orchestrator?” Sure, you can give all service accounts administrative permissions on all components and that would work somehow, but this is not really what … Continue reading →

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Bringing discovered SCOM objects to Service Manager – Part 2/2

Posted on 13/02/2011 by

In the first part of this series I showed how to synchronize objects that live in SCOM to the Service Manager CMDB. This works fine, but in some situations it’s possible that objects will not be visible – because they … Continue reading →

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Bringing discovered SCOM objects to Service Manager – Part 1/2

Posted on 10/02/2011 by

Service Manager allows to build a comprehensive CMDB by using connectors. One very important connector is the SCOM CI connector (System Center Operations Manager) that allows objects that are discovered and monitored by SCOM to be synchronized with the Service … Continue reading →

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