Operations Manager What is new in monitoring and what changes are coming soon? Bob Cornelissen, BICTT Cameron Fuller, Catapult Systems #MMSSCOM
What about Bob? Consultant and owner BICTT Netherlands 3 year MVP System Center Cloud & Datacenter Management Lead Author: Mastering SCOM 2012 Blog at http://www.bictt.com/blogs Charity dog sanctuary in Thailand Twitter: @Bob_Cornelissen
What about Cameron? Principal Consultant Catapult Systems 8 year MVP System Center Cloud & Datacenter Management Author on MOM2005, SCOM 2007, SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012 Unleashed books Blogs at http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/ Twitter: @CFullerMVP
Operations Manager 2012 Evolution 2012 Evolution Network Monitoring APM (.NET, J2E) Architectural changes (RMS out, Pools in), RMSe Integrated Dashboards 2012 SP1 Evolution Global Service Monitoring APM Extensions TFS integration and Intellitrace 2012 R2 Evolution New Agents: Unix/Linux: More scalable Windows: Microsoft Monitoring Agent APM for Java (deepdive APM for Tomcat) System Center Advisor Integration
New Agent - Microsoft Monitoring Agent
New Unix/Linux Agent Previous agent built on OpenPegasus New agent built on OMI (Open Management Infrastructure) Faster and more efficient agent with smaller footprint and better workload management HP UX, Oracle Solaris, Red Hat, AIX, SuSe, Cent OS, Debian, Ubuntu
2012 R2 URx changes UR2 (April 2014) Added new widgets (+11) UR3 (July 2014) Office 365 MP MP for Virtual Machine Manager Host and Virtual Machine Dashboards
What s new in OM? UR4 GSM update! Miami Miami Cuba
2012 R2 URx changes UR4 (October 2014) Added support and agents for: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x64), CentOS Linux 7 (x64), Oracle Linux 7 (x64) Support new JEE application servers: JBoss Application Server 7 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 Wildfly Application Server 8 Apache Tomcat 8
Demo MP Download & Sync Management Pack download, extraction & synchronization of packs between SCOM management groups
Bonus Tip: Upgrades or Migrations? To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade! SCOM 2007 R2 CU#7 > SCOM 2012 RTM SCOM 2012 RTM > SCOM 2012 SP1 SCOM 2012 SP1 > SCOM 2012 R2 RTM SCOM 2012 R2 RTM > Latest UR Multihomed migration now More than Ever http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2013/10/my-personal-upgrade-experiences-from.html http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2013/10/upgrading-to-scom-2012-r2-rtm-dont.html http://www.bictt.com/blogs/bictt.php/2014/10/02/scom-2012-sp1-to-r2
Bonus Tip: Extended Agent Info pack Use the Extended Agent Info pack during migration and after. Management pack shows management group(s) info of all agents and their version. Also has tasks to add or remove management group info from 2012 agents. Thanks to José Fehse http://scomandplus.blogspot.nl/2012/11/scom-2012-extended-agent-info.html
Microsoft Azure Operational Insights https://preview.opinsights.azure.com/
Azure Operational Insights Previous Advisor functionality - best practices advice Log Management - Windows Event Logs Capacity Planning dependence on VMM to SCOM connector Change Tracking accounts/apps Update Assessment System Updates Malware Assessment Have AV? At risk? SQL Assessment version, performance, security, availability Alert Intelligence (soon) SCOM alert Security (soon) Security event log and firewall AD Assessment (soon)
Demo OpInsights Microsoft Azure Operational Insights
Blogs to know Kevin Holman s Blog http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/ Marnix Wolf s Blog http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/ Bob s Blog: http://www.bictt.com/blogs Cameron Fuller s Blog http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/ Tao Yang http://blog.tyang.org/ Kevin Greene http://kevingreeneitblog.blogspot.com/ Dieter Wijckmans http://scug.be/dieter/
Management Packs Continuous investment in management packs Management pack Wiki http://tinyurl.com/ommpwiki Recent: Exchange 2013, Dynamics CRM 2013, Message Queuing, Office 365, SQL (incl 2014), Service Manager, VMM, Windows Base OS, ADFS, AD, Clustering, DHCP, File Services,.. Coming very soon: Office 365, DPM
Management Packs - Community OpsMgr Self Maintenance ResearchThis PKI Certificate Verification Scheduled Tasks OpsLogix Ping pack Greenmachine AutoDefragment
What s new in OM? Tao Yang! Australia based MVP on System Center heavily focused on Operations Manager Recent updates: OpsMgr 2012 Self Maintenance Management Pack ConfigMgr 2012 (R2) Client Management Pack Monitoring Weather Conditions Using SCOM Management Pack for the SCOM 2012 Maintenance Mode Scheduler SCOM Enhanced Email Notification Script Tao Yang hanging out with the MVP s including Bob, Cameron and Kevin Greene (shown above)
OpsMgr Self Maintenance Management Pack Tao Yang s Maintenance MP: http://tinyurl.com/omselfmaint23 Key features: Automatically close aged rule-generated alerts, Enable Agent- Proxy for all agents, Remove Disabled discovery objects, Detects OpsMgr management servers in maintenance mode, detect closed monitor alerts More to follow soon
Extreme Operations Manager: Coffee? http://blog.coretech.dk/jgs/opsmgr-2007-r2-scom-coretech-coffee-monitor-management-pack-0001/ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/hh155327.aspx
YouTube: OpsMgr, Live Maps & Kinect. Extreme Operations Manager: Kinect
Extreme Operations Manager: Nest http://scug.be/dieter/2014/02/19/ nest-thermostat-monitoring-packpart-4-seeing-it-in-action/
Visualization SCOM Dashboards and widgets and distributed applications Tomorrow: [Scott Moss - Dashboarding with SCOM 2012 R2] Savision Live maps and Service Monitoring (Unity) and Mobile Xian Wings for Mobile SquaredUp dashboarding Derdack Mobile BlueStripe Application Discovery
Microsoft & Monitoring - Futures Monitoring as a concept will exist, but it will evolve and change Monitoring in System Center Monitoring in Azure
Demo Unix/Linux monitoring Using Azure IaaS to run Unix systems monitored by an On-Prem Operations Manager environment
Visualization Example - Healthcare
Using Orchestrator to augment SCOM Maintenance Mode scheduling Monitoring SCOM Automatic resolution Notifications Etc. Checking for Stale Alerts Auto-reset health state of monitors after manual closing of monitor alert
SCOM Futures What do the Technical Preview and vnext bring us?
SCOM Tech Preview and vnext Running on Windows Technical Preview Requires SQL 2014 Don t forget the usual SQL CRL Tools and SQL ReportViewer 2012 The Tech Preview is not made for upgrading previous versions Real changes and additions are not expected in this build of the Tech Preview, except for Tech Preview Server support.
SCOM Tech Preview and vnext Continued first tier monitoring support MP s for upcoming product versions and Cloud products Microsoft Azure Operational Insights connections
vnext and Tech Preview crossplat The OMI agent can be shared between SCOM and SCCM. Shell command/script executions are multi-threaded. Option to use default (stored) runas credentials in discovery wizard and powershell discovery. File system discovery can be filtered by type or name in overrides.
vnext and Tech Preview crossplat Run any script to get health or performance (shell, python, perl, etc.). So no longer single line command. Also no need to escape characters inside the scripts. This is a big thing!
vnext crossplat Coming later in vnext: Create shell command or script diagnostic or recovery task. Per-process performance monitors. Apache monitoring pack! With a deployable Apache module. Server, Virtual host, performance, certificates. MySQL monitoring pack! Monitor server, databases, storage engine, etc. for health and performance
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