Guide for System Center Management Pack for System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator – Service Provider Foundation
Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
The Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Management Pack for System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator – Service Provider Foundation (SPF) helps you manage your SPF installation instances by monitoring the health of the SPF servers.
For SPF to function correctly, the correlated and dependent System Center 2012 R2 component must be properly configured with SPF, and it must be in a healthy operational state. Namely, System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager is a required component, and it is highly recommended that the component is monitored with its respective management packs.
This monitoring pack for SPF alerts you about problems with SPF instances and connectivity with dependent servers so that you can troubleshoot and repair any issues that may occur.
This guide is based on version 7.2.55.0 of the Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Management Pack for System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator – Service Provider Foundation.
Guide History
| Release Date | Changes |
|---|---|
October 2013 |
Original release of this guide |
Supported Configurations
To monitor parts in System Center 2012 R2 – Service Provider Foundation, use this monitoring pack with System Center 2012 SP1 – Operations Manager or later version. This monitoring pack does not require a dedicated Operations Manager management group.
SPF supports Microsoft SQL Server clustering for the databases and Network Load Balancing (NLB) for the SPF servers. In these topologies, the individual parts are monitored individually, regardless of the existence of NLB.
The following table provides details about the supported configurations for the monitoring pack for Service Provider Foundation.
| Configuration | Support |
|---|---|
Service Provider Foundation (SPF) |
Version 2 |
Network load balanced servers |
Yes |
Clustered servers |
Yes |
Agentless monitoring |
No |
Virtual environment |
Yes |
Management Pack Scope
This monitoring pack supports up to as many SPF instances as may be needed as long as each instance is installed in different servers.
Prerequisites
The following requirements must be met to run this monitoring pack:
- To monitor Service Provider Foundation (SPF) you need to ensure all dependent System Center 2012 R2 components are correctly installed and properly configured with SPF. To install and run SPF, see How to Install Service Provider Foundation 2012 R2.
Mandatory Configuration
Install System Center Operations Manager.
Download SPF Management Pack.
Use Operations Manager to import the SPF management pack.
Files in this Management Pack
The Management Pack for System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator – Service Provider Foundation includes the following files:
- Microsoft.SystemCenter.ServiceProviderFoundation.mp