Kåre Rude Andersen

Create a ScomBot – Automate and monitor Azure

• Kåre Rude Andersen - @KraCoretech• Consultant / Trainer / Member of Microsoft SC Alliance Team• Coretech A/S | mail: kra@coretech.dk

Who am I

Agenda• Automating everything• Internal SCOM• Whats new in 2012 R2• Using and Monitoring Azure• Global Service Monitoring• Visual Studio Web Test• Advisor• Use cases

Automating everything• Automating everything• Installation and Disaster recovery• Agent Installation• SCOM Maintenance

Demo• Automating• Disaster Recovery• Agent Install• Daily Maintenance• http://blog.tyang.org/2013/03/03/opsmgr-self-maintenance-management-pack/

Internal Rules and Monitoring• SCOM Rules

• Optimize Indexes• Partitioning and Grooming• Alert Auto Resolve Execute All• Detect and Fix object space inconsistencies• Discovery Data Grooming• Maintenance Mode• Transfer Events

Demo• Internal Rules and Monitors

Using and Monitoring Azure

• Monitor Resources• Import MP• Create Certificate• Configuration• Run Template

Using and Monitoring Azure

Using and Monitoring Azure• Discovers Windows Azure Cloud services.• Provides status of each role instance.• Collects and monitors performance information per role instance.• Collects and monitors Windows events per role instance• Collects and monitors the .NET Framework trace messages from each role

instance.• Grooms performance, event, and the .NET Framework trace data from Windows

Azure storage.• Changes the number of role instances.• Discovers Windows Azure Virtual Machines• Provides status of each role instance of the Virtual Machine• Discovers Windows Azure Storage• Monitors availability and size of each Storage and optionally alerts• Discover relationships between discovered Azure resources, to see which other

resources a particular Azure resource uses. This information is then displayed in a topology dashboard

• Monitors management and cloud service certificates and alerts if the certificates are about to expire

• Includes a new Distributed Application template that lets you create distributed applications that span Azure as well as on-premise resources, for Hybrid monitoring scenarios.

• Includes a set of dashboards for the Hybrid monitoring scenarios

Demo• Windows Azure Management Pack• Creating Monitor Objects• Add SLA

Global Service Monitor• Create account• Configure Settings• Create Web Availability• Use IT• Configure internal

watchers with PS

Demo• Configure GSM and Own Locations

Application Insights• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/

2013/11/13/announcing-application-insights-preview.aspx

Advisor• Create Groups in

SCOM• Create Rollup and

Present

Demo• Configure Advisor

News in 2012 R2• Advisor

• System Center Management Pack for VMM Fabric Dashboard

2012 R2

• IPv6 ifm Network Discovery

• Microsoft Monitoring Agent (Intellitrace)

• Java APM (Tomcat, JDK, GenericServlets, Struts, Struts2, Axis)

• Dashboard Performance

Automate Use Cases• Want to do Web Services• Show SQL Queries directly in SCOM• Nice Forms as Tasks• Web services directly from SCOM –

e.g. Service Now• Group Creator

Summary• Automate everything• Begin your Azure Journey• Implement Automation

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