In addition to the general recommendations for testing Management Packs that are described in the Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 Deployment Guide, this section lists testing tasks that are appropriate for the Configuration Manager 2007 Management Pack. For more information about testing Management Packs, see the Operations Manager 2007 Web page (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=83259).
Testing Tasks
- Verify that the Configuration Manager 2007
computer groups are populated with computers running Configuration
Manager 2007.
- After enabling the relevant rules, ensure
that the views and reports in Operations Manager 2007 are
functioning properly. These include views relating to Configuration
Manager 2007 processing rates and Configuration Manager 2007
backlogs.
- By default, some rules related to other
Management Packs, such as the IIS and SQL Server Management Packs,
are disabled in the Configuration Manager 2007 Management Pack.
Depending on what additional Management Packs you have deployed,
you should review these disabled rules to identify any rules that
you might want to enable in your environment.
- By default, all performance measuring rules
are disabled to minimize the impact on the agent’s CPU, memory, and
network resources. These rules can be enabled for more in-depth
monitoring.
- Some of the Configuration Manager 2007
scripts that run on a Configuration Manager 2007 Provider
computer, a Configuration Manager 2007 Site Server, or access
a Configuration Manager 2007 site database do not run in
agentless mode. Verify that all computers in the Configuration
Manager 2007 Provider and Configuration Manager 2007 Site
Database Server computer groups are configured as agent-managed
computers. Also, because some of these scripts may proxy events,
verify that these agents are configured to enable proxying.
- To support SQL Clusters, all scripts running
against the ConfigMgr Site Database run from the site server.
Verify that no error events and alerts are being raised by
scripts.