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How To Tame The Beast

Scom how to tune and tame the beast

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Marnix Wolf is showcasing years of on the field experience on how to efficiently troubleshoot SCOM and make sure you are always able to pinpoint what is going wrong.

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How To Tame The Beast

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Microsoft NDA Confidential

Your host of today

@MarnixWolf

Marnix WolfSenior consultantBloggerSCCDM MVP

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Agenda

360⁰ monitoring. How real does it get?

DAs. The nuts and bolts

Custom Classes as coat hangers

Common SCOM pain points & issues

How to monitor and remedy SCOM

Troubleshooting flow

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360⁰ monitoring. How real does it get?

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What Microsoft says about it

INFRACLOUD

APM (.NET & J2EE)

Inside Synth Transactions

Outside Synth

Transactions

RT Client Monitorin

gOpsMgr 2012 R2+

GSM+

System Center Advisor

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Real World - What companies THINK they’ve got

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Real World - What companies REALLY have (*)

INFRACLOUD

APM

Inside Synth

Transactions

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How to bridge the gap?

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DAsThe nuts & bolts

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Aggregate Monitors & DAs• The 4 well known Aggregate Monitors (AMs) in SCOM• DAs and the SCOM 2007x A.M. limitation• DAs and the SCOM 2012x A.M. limitation removal• DAs and the SCOM 2012x A.M. pitfall• DA Templates affected:

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How to crack it?Don’t use the new DA templates BUT…1. Build DAs using the Blank (Advanced) template2. Check the settings & config of All Contained Objects

Monitor3. Build a Dependency Monitor per Aggregate Monitor

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Demo

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See also• More info on my blog:

http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.nl/2014/02/om12x-distributed-application-horror.html

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Custom ClassesAs coat hangers

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But…

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How? – Part 1: MP Authoring ToolMeet the REVERSE DISCOVERY:• Create an empty new MP;• With one Custom Class (Windows Server Computer as

Base Class)• With one Discovery (Registry (Filtered));• Disable the Discovery;• BEST PRACTICE: Seal the MP.

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How? – Part 2: SCOM Console

Create a Group with required Windows Servers;

Enable the Discovery for the new Class, using the new Group;Class will be Discovered, resulting in Objects related to the ClassMonitors/Rules/Views can be built now, targeted against that Class

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Demo

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Common SCOM pain points & issues

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Guess we’ve all been there…• SQL• Databases• Management Servers• Management Packs• Agents• Proxy• Backups

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How to monitor and remedy SCOM

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Troubleshooting flow

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Sequence• Eventlogs• Logs• Trace tools

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Demo

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Resources

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Blogs to know• Cameron Fuller :

www.blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/• Kevin Holman :

www.blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/• Dieter Wijckmans : www.scug.be/dieter/• Bob Cornelissen : www.bictt.com/blogs/bictt.php• Tao Yang : www.blog.tyang.org/ • Peter Smit : www.smitpj.blogspot.nl/ • Marnix Wolf :

www.thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com

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Thank You to our SPONSORS

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Q and A