What s new with Operations Management & Partner MPs Christian Heitkamp, Product Director NiCE IT Management Solutions GmbH Smart Application Monitoring Solutions You Can Rely On Christian.Heitkamp@nice.de
Agenda A short Intro MPx Alliance News on Operations Management Microsoft & Linux Partner MP Overview Trivia & Prices
NiCE Who we are NiCE IT Management Solutions is a Premier Software Development and IT Professional Services company Over 20 years of experience with Cross Platform Application Monitoring Solutions Valued developmental partners include HP, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and BlackBerry Distribution partners and client base is global NiCE Application Monitoring Solutions are tried and trusted NiCE Top 10 Markets by Region
Operations Management News #1: Operations Manager 2012 updates #2: What s coming with OpsMgr 2016 Linux/UNIX special! #3: Microsoft Management Services (mms.microsoft.com)
Continuous delivery System Center 2014 2015 2016 Ignite System Center 2016 Continued Investments Quarterly Updates Aligned to Windows Server Management Services Frequent Updates Cloud Cadence Build Measure Learn Site Recovery Backup Automation Op Insights Service updates continue, more services added Update Rollups
New Update Rollups for SCOM 2012 SP1 (UR10), R2 (UR7) and 2012 (UR8) Release: 11. August Changes Updated Cross Plattform Agents A security vulnerability exists in the Web Console for System Center 2012 Operations Manager that could allow elevation of privilege if a user visits an affected website by way of a specially crafted URL. (XSS) Larger number of defects Where? UR7: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3071089 UR8: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3064919 Upgrade how-to: Kevin Holman
Microsoft & Linux: News for your LAMP Stack in 2016 Smart Application Monitoring Solutions You Can Rely On
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Linux/UNIX News in OpsMgr 2016 Monitoring of Apache, MySQL, MariaDB RunAs Accounts available in the Discovery Wizard and PowerShell OMI Agent will be multi-threaded New Assistance for UNIX/Linux Scripts and Tasks Common Agent for OpsMgr und ConfigMgr OMI Version 1.0.8 Support for additional distros and versions RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Oracle 7, Ubuntu 14.04, SLES 12
JEE App Servers Available since OpsMgr 2012 Monitor JEE App Servers and applications WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, JBoss MySQL Databases New MP for vnext Monitor MySQL database servers Monitor Server, Database, Storage Engine, etc., for health and performance Apache Web Servers New MP for vnext Monitor Apache HTTP Servers (2.2 2.4) Monitor Server, Virtual Host, and SSL certificates for health and performance https://www.microsoft.com/enza/download/details.aspx?id=46924
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Microsoft Operations Management Suite
Evolving with our customers System Center for the datacenter Microsoft Management Services Server Proliferation Workload Virtualization Private & Hybrid Modern Management Enterprise Desktop Heterogeneous Open Platform Cloud Inspired Time to Value Improved Productivity Solution Orientated
Windows Server (VM) Windows Server (VM) Windows Server (VM) Azure Windows Server (VM) Linux (VM) Operations Management Suite (OMS) Windows Server (VM) Windows Server (VM) Linux (VM) Linux (VM) Amazon Web Services Linux (VM) Windows Server (Guest) Windows Server (Guest) Windows Server (Guest) Windows Server (Guest) Linux (Guest) Private Clouds (Hyper-V, VMware, OpenStack)
OpInsights: The Evolution First Release: 9 Nov 2010 Microsoft Codename Atlanta Rename 1: March 2011 System Center Advisor RC live Rename 2: October 28th 2014 Azure Operational Insights Rename 3: Operations Management Suite
Microsoft Operations Management Suite Azure VMs Azure Diagnostics Windows & Linux Server Servers forwarding data through SCOM Windows & Linux Server Machine Data Event Logs IIS Logs Security Logs Perf Counters Syslog & many more Servers directly forwarding data Azure Storage Search & Analytics Portal Operations Management Suite Operations Management Suite Search, Correlate & Combine Visualize Results Centralized & Extensible Collection Multiple Data Sources regardless of Volume, Format or Location Ready Made Intelligence Forecast Capacity Assess System Update, Malware, Configuration Change Tracking Respond to Threats Identify security breaches Audit & Compliance REAL TIME SEARCH READY MADE INTELLIGENCE DASHBOARDS & REPORTING SCALABLE SOURCE
Security: Considerations Open Ports for connections (proxy configuration) Currently no compliance and certifications (Microsoft is working on it ) Example data transmitted: Firewall logs IP Info, DNS, AD, topologies IIS Logs have sensitive Information: File names, Directory paths, Cookies
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Operational insights: Actions Items for you if you do not use OMS
Demo Advisor / OpInsights MPs Out of the box analyzed
SCOM 2012 R2 OpInsights MPs Workflow Target Type Interval (sec) Internal.AdvisorConnector Discovery Rule: Advisor.SyncAlert Microsoft.Windows.Co mputer CollectionManagemen tserver Registry Discovery MP 600 Advisor.Int ernal Alert rule 120 Advisor Rule: Advisor.MPUpdate ManagementGroup Alert Rule 43200 Advisor Rule: Advisor.MaintenanceTasks ManagementGroup Alert Rule 43200 Advisor These workflows eat resources!
What to do? Three Options Delete SCA integration Not recommended Good: Disable Connector Discovery Best: Disable all Rules, Discoveries and Monitors http://1drv.ms/19hw44m
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NiCE and MPx Alliance Application Management Packs for Microsoft System Center IBM DB2 LUW DB2 MP: 2007 to date Oracle Database Oracle MP: 2011 to date BlackBerry / BES 10 BES/BBMP: 2009 to date IBM Domino / Notes Domino MP: 2008 to date SAP, Sybase, HANA Partner: 2013 to date Linux on IBM System z zlinux MP: 2014 to date Log File monitoring (FREE!) LogFile MP 2014 to date And more! zlinux, PeopleSoft, Tuxedo, Remedy Visit us: http://www.mpxalliance.com!
NiCE Oracle MP Overview Provides best practice set of Oracle availability and performance monitoring with over 70 monitors and 50 performance rules Oracle MP follows Microsoft s SCOM integration recommendation Includes dashboard, alert, diagram and detailed state & performance views The Oracle MP includes SCOM reports In-depth discovery of Oracle Database environment & Fully updated product knowledge included
WinRM client library NiCE Provider WinRM client library NiCE Oracle MP Architecture (Linux/UNIX) OpsMgr Management Group Managed Linux/UNIX Computer MP MP Management Server I NiCE instrumentation Oracle MP MP MP Oracle MP NiCE Lib MP NiCE Lib MP Management Server II NiCE instrumentation Port 1270 Log File sftp OpsMgr agent for Linux/UNIX (Server + Providers) Mem CPU other NiCE instrumentation NiCE Oracle Collector App = Instrumentation deployment via SFTP
Demo Partner MPs
Comtrade Management Packs Application XenDesktop XenApp Provisioning Services StoreFront License Server ShareFile Siebel Platform CloudPortal Services Manager Web Interface XenMobile Virtualization Storage / Network XenServer NetScaler F5 Big-IP F5 Big-IQ CloudBridge
Recommended Partner MPs Application Vendor Application Vendor VMWare Veeam IBM DB2 NiCE Hyper-V Veeam F5 Big IP Comtrade Citrix Comtrade F5 Big IQ Comtrade IBM Domino NiCE SAP NiCE/OZSoft Oracle (DB, ASM, Tuxedo, ) NiCE SAP HANA NiCE/OZSoft Visualization library Veeam (Free) ASE (Sybase) Database NiCE/OSZoft Logfile monitoring NiCE (FREE) Siebel Comtrade Mainframe (IBM z Series) EView Kofax Sistemi IBM i (Midrange, iseries, AS400) EView BlackBerry NiCE Visit Microsoft Pinpoint for full list of MPs available
Summary Microsoft continues to invest in SCOM. It will be also there in 5+ years Linux is a key pillar in the Microsoft strategy Microsoft extends monitoring in the Linux space OMS is an additional offering for monitoring consider with care The MPx Alliance is the largest and most complete go-to place for all Partner SCOM partner extensions
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