Quick Look at System Center Service Provider Foundation Management Pack

Last week the SPF MP for SCOM was released so let’s look on how to install it and configure it.

First we need to install it:

Then we need to import in SCOM

After it is imported we need to create account/s. According to the guide you need to create two accounts in SCOM:

• One account that have access to the SPF database and with access to your VMM;
• Second account with access to the VMM endpoint in SPF.

As I see it you need only read access for both accounts but in my case I will use one account that have admin rights in SPF database, admin rights in VMM and member of the group that gives permissions to the VMM endpoint.

Set it to more secure

Next open the properties of the account in the Distribution tab add all your SPF server(s), VMM server(s) and SQL server(s) where SPF database is:

In the SCOM console in Profiles section you will see two profiles:

• Service Provider Foundation Database Account
• Service Provider Foundation VMM Web Endpoint Account

To both accounts you need to add the account you’ve just added in SCOM. Of course if you want to go more secure and have two accounts you will add them to the corresponding profile. Also remember to distribute the accounts to the right servers. In my case I am adding to both profiles the same account:

After that in your Service Provider Foundation State view you should see your SPF servers:

If you have any alerts for wrong credentials you can reset the monitors and close the alerts. During the import, the creation of the accounts and setting them some alerts might be generated for wrong credentials.