How To Tame The Beast

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@MarnixWolf

Marnix WolfSenior consultantBloggerSCCDM MVP

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

360⁰ monitoring. How real does it get?

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

Real World - What companies THINK they’ve got

Real World - What companies REALLY have (*)

INFRACLOUD

APM

Inside Synth

Transactions

How to bridge the gap?

DAsThe nuts & bolts

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:

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

Demo

See also• More info on my blog:

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

Custom ClassesAs coat hangers

But…

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.

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

Demo

Common SCOM pain points & issues

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

How to monitor and remedy SCOM

SCOM & Community• SCOM Console > OM > MG Health• SSC Health Reports• OM 12 Self Maintenance MP

Troubleshooting flow

Sequence• Eventlogs• Logs• Trace tools

Demo

Resources

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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