SCOM DMZ agent

Part1 - SCOM BASICS

Part2 - Useful SQL queries in SCOM database
Part3 - Basic reporting in SCOM
Part4 - SCOM scripting basics
Part5 - SCOM Linux Agents
Part6 - SCOM SNMP monitoring

Nowadays, there are a lot of great articles about this topic and we think that is not necessary to write a step-by-step article explaining how to run a Windows agent on the DMZ or out of the domain of SCOM server.

Here are some great examples of these articles explaining how to deploy a DMZ agent:
http://pkjayan.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/agent-managed-untrusted-servers-step-by-step-guide/
http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_stranger/archive/2012/04/17/monitoring-non-domain-members-with-om-2012.aspx

There are even some homemade scripts to deploy the agents like this one: http://systemscentre.blogspot.com.es/2012/03/scom-dmzworkgroup-agent-deployment.html

SCOM SNMP monitorig

Part1 - SCOM BASICS

Part2 - Useful SQL queries in SCOM database
Part3 - Basic reporting in SCOM
Part4 - SCOM scripting basics
Part5 - SCOM Linux Agents

SNMP monitoring is easy to implement in SCOM 2012.
SNMP monitoring in SCOM is an example of agentless monitoring.
Since SCOM 2012 there are a lot of templates related with SNMP devices, before SCOM 2012 you had to install the xSNMP management pack, nowadays a lot of vendors are included in SCOM 2012 by default.

Here is a list of well supported devices: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=26831

SCOM Linux Agents

This is the part four of a set of articles related to SCOM

Part1 - SCOM BASICS

Part2 - Useful SQL queries in SCOM database
Part3 - Basic reporting in SCOM
Part4 - SCOM scripting basics

How to deploy

Before SCOM 2012 SP1, if you didn´t  have the supported Linux Versions like Red Hat or SUSE, it was hard to deploy a Linux agent, nowadays with the new management packs, it is much easier.
In this article, we are going to a make a sumary which covers the installation and basic troubleshooting in Linux systems, but it could also be useful with Unix agents.