The aim of this linklist is to keep track of the links and locations I used to download and install Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and Management Packs for BizTalk, and thus can be used by others for the same purpose.
System Center Operations Manager 2007 – Main site at Microsoft.
Review Licensing and for more information about licensing read the informational brief. Operations Manager is not an expensive product. It even comes packaged together with SQL for a reasonable cost. Check the link for the latest updated information, on purpose I wont use precise amounts, but roughly it’s $500 for the server install (or $1300 with SQL) and another $30 – $400 for each machine to monitor, depending on the demands of that machine. If it’s a BizTalk machine it’s $400. Compared to the Enterprise License for BizTalk which is $35,000 – it’s hardly worth mentioning.
Get the Eval version – Go here to start the process of downloading the evaluation copy of Microsoft Operations Manager 2007. If you are a TechNet Plus or MSDN subscriber, perhaps you’d rather download the full, non-evaluation, copy from there.- Get OpsMgr 2007 MOM 2005 Backward Compatibility Management Pack Update – you need it for the management packs we’ll install later.
- Management Packs – Get your management packs of choice from here. There are quite a few to choose from and I’ve selected only the few I considered important in my case. Those are…
- Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 Operating System Management Pack – for monitoring the operating system.
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 Management Pack – for monitoring the database.
- Microsoft Biztalk Server 2006 Management Pack for SC Operations Manager 2007 – for monitoring BizTalk Server.
- You cannot install Operations Manager on your XP or Vista development machine, it must be installed on a machine (or VPC) with Windows Server 2003 and SP1. Consider downloading a Virtual Hard Drive as a starting point, for example one with Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2.
- SQL Server 2005 is required, SQL Server 2000 is not enough. Get a trial of SQL Server 2005 here or make sure the vhd you get comes with 2005, which as far as I know (at this point in time) all except the ones featuring 2008 CTPs do.
- Some key points about the server environment you are installing to. It should not have Windows Sharepoint (if you have it uninstall it using Add/Remove Windows Components), but it should have Powershell. It should also have IIS (install using Add/Remove Windows Components), .Net 2.0, .Net 3.0 and a sufficient version of MDAC, equal to or later then 2.80.1022.0. As opposed to some other installs I’ve seen, MOM actually has a very good pre-requisites check complete with links to the installs your specific environment is missing. Above I just mention what I consider are the main ones.
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