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Inventorying Your OpsMgr Configuration

By Kerrie Meyler on Sat, 01/12/08 - 9:36pm.

If you've had to restore part of your environment or do a disaster recovery plan, you know how important it is to understand your current configuration. Wave 1 of the Operations Manager Resource Kit includes a tool for inventorying the components on each computer where you installed an OpsMgr component. The Operations Manager Inventory tool collects information about your installation and saves it to a XML-formatted .cab file. Data collected includes the following:

Windows Installer logs for Operations Manager 2007
Registry information for Operations Manager 2007
Operations Manager 2007 configuration information
Management packs
All running processes
All Windows NT event logs on that system
The report produced by the Prerequisite Checker when you installed Operations Manager 2007

The inventory tool (MOMInventory.exe) must be run locally on each computer. The computer must have Microsoft .NET 3.0 installed.

You can download the OpsMgr 2007 Resource Kit utilities from the System Center Operations Manager TechCenter at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=94593.

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About Managing Microsoft

Kerrie Meyler, MVP, MCSE, MCTS, MCT, is an independent consultant and trainer with over fifteen years of experience in IT. While at Microsoft in Field Technical Sales for four years she focused on infrastructure and mangement, presenting at numerous product launches. Kerrie has presented Operations Manager 2007 at TechEd 2007, MMS 2009, MMS 2011, and internal Microsoft conferences, receiving company recognition and awards including a SPAR MGS award. Kerrie worked with Microsoft Learning to develop functional specifications for the original Operations Manager Microsoft courseware, 2550: Implementing Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 and did the beta teach for that course.She also participated in development for several System Center certification exams.

Kerrie is the lead author of Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed, System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 Unleashed, System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed, System Center Opalis Integration Server 6.3 Unleashed and System Center Service Manager 2010 Unleashed.

Check out an excerpt from System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed, Chapter 3: Looking Inside OpsMgr.

You can also check out an excerpt from System Center Configuration (SCCM) Manager 2007 Unleashed, Chapter 3: Looking Inside ConfigMgr.

Read a sample chapter of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Unleashed at Chapter 1: Introduction and What's New.

You can also read a sample chapter of System Center Opalis Integration Server 6.3 Unleashed at Chapter 1: Introducing Opalis Integration Server 6.3 and System Center Service Manager 2010 Unleashed at Chapter 1:Service Management Basics.

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