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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) plug-in

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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) plug-in

NOTE

The System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) plug-in is only supported on Windows.

NOTE

The SCOM plug-in is only available on Professional Plus and Enterprise.

NOTE

You must have SCOM Management privileges to access the Plug-in for SCOM dialog box. For more
information about privileges, refer to

“User Privileges”

on page 2151.

The SCOM plug-in allows fabric inventory information collected by the Management application to
be displayed on the Microsoft SCOM console. The SCOM plug-in uses the SCOM SDK services to
extend the SCOM console and present fabric inventory information. The SCOM plug-in serves
dynamic HTML pages to the SCOM console.

The SCOM console displays the folloiwng information:

Fabric and switch details

End-to-end monitor statistics

Events from the Management application when Critical events for switches in the fabric trigger
CallHome in the Management application

The SCOM plug-in is supported on the following configurations:

SCOM 2007 R2 or SCOM 2012

Professional Plus and Enterprise Trial and Licensed version 11.0.0 and later

SCOM plug-in requirements

Make sure you import the Management application management pack
(Management_Application_Name.FabricView.xml) to the SCOM Server prior to registering the
SCOM Plug-in. The management pack is located in the following directory: Install_Home\scom.

Make sure the Management application server host is managed by the SCOM Server in agent
managed mode.

Make sure the SCOM HealthService agent is running on the Management application server.

Make sure you install the SCOM Console 2007 R2 software on the Management application
server.

(Optional) Enable SSL on the Management_Application_Name to use HTTPS Communication
between SCOM Console and the Management application.

Make sure that the fabric or switch is managed by the the Management application to view
fabric and switch details.

Make sure to enable performance monitoring at the SAN or fabric level to collect -end monitor
statistics. Refer to

“SAN end-to-end monitoring”

on page 1624.

Registering a SCOM server

To register the SCOM server, complete the following steps.