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Category Archives: System Center 2016
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#Microsoft System Center Management Pack (CTP) for #SQL Server vNext Replication #Sysctr #SCOM
Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Community Technology Preview) for SQL Server vNext Replication enables the monitoring of Replication as a set of technologies for copying and distributing data and database objects from one database to another and then synchronizing between the databases to maintain consistency.
Here you can download the System Center MP for SQL Server vNext Replication including documentation.
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Jeff Woolsey in action Talking about Windows Server 2016 Security and Containers
Thanks Jeff Great Sessions !
Of course It’s a tradition that @ClusterMVP & @WSV_GUY  & @Jamesvandenberg are on a Picture 😉
Cloud and Datacenter Management Rocks
#MVPbuzz Time with Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions at the Microsoft Tech Summit 2017
Great questions and feedback on Microsoft :
Azure
AzureStack
Windows Server 2016
Hyper-V
System Center
Operations Management Suite (OMS)
Containers
Microsoft Tech Summit 2017 Amsterdam Dutch MVP’s at the Booth
#MVPbuzz
Multitasking showing of the Microsoft Surface Studio and supporting the Microsoft Tech Community
Thanks Ladies !
Microsoft Tech Summit 2016-17
Build your cloud and infrastructure skills with a two-day free technical training event
Here you can see in which cities the Microsoft Tech Summit 2017 is
Thank you Microsoft and Community for these Awesome two Cloud and Infrastructure Days in Amsterdam ! 😉
#Microsoft OMS Service Map for Hybrid IT Management #MSOMS #Azure #Linux #HybridCloud
Service Map in #MSOMS automatically builds a common reference map of dependencies across your servers, processes, and third-party services. It discovers and maps all TCP dependencies, identifying surprise connections, remote third-party systems you depend on, and dependencies to traditional dark areas of your network such as Active Directory. Service Map discovers failed network connections that your managed systems are attempting to make, helping you identify potential server misconfiguration, service outages, and network issues.
Microsoft Operations Management Suite
OMS Service Map Overview of my Demo Environment
Machine Changes on HybridCloud01 Server
You now can see that the Previous Service State Running is changed in Stopped.
When you go more in details and look at the log Search in this event :
When this event is important to you you can make an OMS Alert on this Change :
With OMS Alert you can take actions like :
With Microsoft OMS Runbooks you can make Automation solutions for Hybrid IT Events.
Servicemap Summary
Servicemap Server Properties
OMS Service Map Performance
OMS Service Map Updates
More information about using Awesome Service Map solution in Operations Management Suite (OMS) you can find here
Configuring Service Map solution in Operations Management Suite (OMS)
Service Map gets its data from the Microsoft Dependency Agent. The Dependency Agent is dependent on the OMS Agent for its connections to OMS. This means that a server must have the OMS Agent installed and configured first, and then the Dependency Agent can be installed. The following table describes the connected sources that are supported by the Service Map solution.
Here you can find more information about configuring OMS Service Maps
Operations Management Suite (OMS) SDK
I like Microsoft OMS Service Map a lot because you can see the relations between Servers, Services, Applications in a Hybrid IT environment and
get proactive alerts to take action to keep your Hybrid Datacenters Healthy 🙂
#MSOMS Rocks
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#Microsoft System Center 2016 Management Pack for Microsoft #Azure #Sysctr #SCOM
Management Pack Scope
The Management Pack for Microsoft Azure enables you to monitor the availability and performance of Azure resources that are running on Microsoft Azure. The management pack runs on a specified server pool, and then uses Microsoft Azure REST APIs to remotely discover and collect performance information about the specified Microsoft Azure resources.
This management pack focuses on the collection of performance metrics made available by Azure Services that use Azure Resource Manager.
Azure Active Directory is used for authenticating Azure REST API calls.
This management pack queries Azure REST APIs to enumerate the resources running in an Azure subscription and the performance metrics available for each resource.
Virtual machines, web roles, and worker roles can store events and performance counters into Azure table storage by means of Azure diagnostics. If these resources are configured to use Azure diagnostics, this Management Pack can collect these events and performance counters.
Examples of services that can be discovered, and whether performance counters are available for collection, are presented in the table below.
| Service | Discovered | Performance Counters | Notes |
| Application Insights | Yes | Yes | |
| Automation | Yes | No | |
| Backup | Yes | No | |
| BizTalk | Yes | No | |
| Cloud Service (web and worker roles) | Yes | Yes | |
| Data Factory | Yes | Yes | |
| DocumentDB | Yes | No | Metrics are not available in the Add Monitoring wizard |
| Logic App | Yes | No | |
| Media Services | Yes | No | Uses Service Management APIs |
| Mobile Services | Yes | Yes | Uses Service Management APIs |
| Networks | Yes | No | |
| Notification Hubs | Yes | No | |
| Operational Insights | Yes | No | |
| Redis Cache | Yes | Yes | |
| Scheduler | Yes | No | |
| Search | Yes | No | |
| Service Bus | Yes | No | |
| SQL Azure | Yes | Yes | |
| Storage Accounts | Yes | No | |
| Traffic Manager | Yes | No | Uses Service Management APIs |
| Virtual Machines | Yes | Yes | Virtual machines also appear as role instances for Cloud Services |
| Websites | Yes | Yes |
You can download the Microsoft Management Pack for Azure here
Get Started here with Microsoft log #Analytics for Hybrid Environment #MSOMS #Azure #HybridCloud #Sysctr
Learn how to use Log Analytics in the Operations Management Suite to collect and analyze data generated by resources in your cloud and on-premises environments. Tutorials and other documentation show you how to get real-time insights across your workloads and servers regardless of physical location
Generate a PDF document about Log Analytics from Online documentation here
Proactive insights on workloads
- Assess the risk and health of major workloads such as Active Directory and SQL.
- View status of antimalware across your entire environment
- Identify missing system updates across Windows and Linux servers
- Detect potential configuration issues or deviations from identified best practices
- Create alerts, alert rules, and notification timeframes
Rich data visualization
- Analyze petabytes of data from the cloud with unlimited data retention
- Chart and compare complex statistical functions
- Use View Designer to create your own visualization of data queries
- Send datasets to Power BI for enhanced visualization capabilities
Visibility across clouds and platforms
- Connect to Linux and Windows virtual machines with one click
- Ingest data from System Center, Zabbix, and Nagios
- Collect any type of data through custom log collection
- Securely send log data through proxy server and OMS Gateway
