Installation Instructions

Before installing, be sure to read the Requirements and Prerequisites sections of the manual, and that your system complies with all system requirements and prerequisites.

Selecting Servers to Monitor

When the SharePoint Application Management Pack is installed, it will automatically discover SharePoint servers on computers that are included in '.NET Enterprise Agent Deployment Group', and then deploy and configure SharePoint monitoring agents on those servers. If you want to only monitor selected servers, then you need to configure the server list prior to installing the SharePoint Application Management Pack.

To include/exclude computers for monitoring, you must modify the list of monitored servers in the '.NET Enterprise Agent Deployment Group'

Open the Operations Manager Console
Open the 'Authoring' tab
Select the 'Authoring/Groups' item
Locate the '.NET Enterprise Agent Deployment Group' item in the list groups
Open the group properties
Manage group members via the tabs 'Explicit Members'/'Dynamic Members'/'Subgroups'/'Excluded Members'

Install the Management Pack

Unpack the files onto the OpsMgr 2007 Server. The package will contain:

The Handlers [x.y].msi file, where [x.y] is the version number
AVIcode.DotNet.SystemCenter.Office.SharePoint.mp

Install the handlers

Run the Handlers [x.y].msi file, where [x.y] is the version number, on the machine where the SE-Viewer is installed

Setup the Management Pack

Open the Operations Manager Console
Go to the "Administration" View
Select the Management Packs node in the 'Administration' tree
Right-click and select 'Import Management Packs…'
Select AVIcode.DotNet.SystemCenter.Office.SharePoint.mp and import it.

Wait for servers to be discovered see the section on Discovery in this manual for details

Go to 'Monitoring' 'AVIcode SharePoint 2007 Application Monitoring' 'SharePoint Server state view'
Wait for all SharePoint servers to be discovered
After the management pack discovers all servers, it will deploy the agents to them

Wait for the agents to be deployed

You can monitor the progress of agent deployment from the OpsMgr Operations Console by looking under "AVIcode .NET Application Monitoring"Monitoring Agent State, where the agents that have been deployed will appear. If all agents do not appear in that view, you can check the deployment progress for success and failures messages via "AVIcode .NET Application Monitoring"'Management Pack Events'

Upgrade the agents (if necessary)

If an agent was already deployed to the SharePoint server from the Enterprise Management Pack prior to deploying an agent from the SharePoint Application Management Pack, then the agent needs to be upgraded to update the Integration kit.

Go to "AVIcode .NET Application Monitoring" Monitoring Agent State
Select the agent
Select 'Enterprise .NET Monitoring Agent Tasks' 'Upgrade Enterprise Agent'
The version of the Integration Kit version in the Monitoring Agent State detail view will change.
Activate monitoring

Once SharePoint applications have been discovered, they will automatically be configured for monitoring. In order for monitoring to actually begin, those services must be restarted. Please read the section of the manual about default configuration monitoring for more information.

Go to AVIcode SharePoint Application Monitoring SharePoint Server State view
Select all servers
Select the action "Reset IIS"

Uninstalling the Management Pack

Go to AVIcode SharePoint Application Monitoring SharePoint Server State view
Select all servers
Select 'SharePoint Server Tasks' 'Stop Monitoring'
Go to the "Administration" View
Select 'Management Packs' 'AVIcode SharePoint 2007 Application Management Pack'
Delete the SharePoint Application Management Pack from OpsMgr
Follow the instructions below for uninstalling the agents

1) All configuration that is applied for Server Agent remains on all OpsMgr machines where SharePoint was monitored, 2) Updated version of Handlers remains on all OpsMgr machines where SharePoint was monitored. To remove the SharePoint configuration settings manually, log into each monitored server, open the Intercept MMC, delete the monitored SharePoint IIS web sites and clear the corresponding settings in the default configurations.

Uninstalling the Agents

if the Management Pack is still installed, and a monitored server is still included in the '.NET Enterprise Agent Deployment Group' , then the agent will automatically be re-deployed once it has been removed. If you wish to permanently remove the agent from a monitored server, you must first remove the server from the deployment group (see 'Selecting Servers to Monitor' at the beginning of this chapter).

Open the OpsMgr Operations Console
Go to 'Monitoring'"AVIcode .NET Application Monitoring"Monitoring Agent State
Select all agents from all SharePoint servers, then select the action 'Stop Monitoring for All Applications'
to actually permanently uninstall the agents, you must log into the remote server and remove the agent via Add/Remove Programs.
Go to 'Monitoring''AVIcode SharePoint 2007 Application Monitoring''SharePoint Server State View'
Select all servers, then select the action 'Reset IIS'

Upgrading

This upgrade process will 1) update all server agent configurations (including the default configuration), 2) will deploy an updated version of Handlers to all machines.

Go to the "Administration" View
Import the new SharePoint Application Management Pack to OpsMgr
Run new Handlers setup
Upgrade the agents

Go to "AVIcode .NET Application Monitoring"Monitoring Agent State
Select the agent
Select 'Enterprise .NET Monitoring Agent Tasks''Upgrade Enterprise Agent'
The version of the Integration Kit version in the Monitoring Agent State detail view will change.

Last update: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 03:47:24 PM