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Monitoring your Azure cloud with SCOM 2012 SP1

Dieter WijckmansSenior System Center Consultant

About MeSenior System Center Consultant

Dieter.Wijckmans@dwit.be

@DieterWijckmans

http://scug.be/Dieter/

www.systemcenteruniverse.com

Motto

It’s doing common things uncommonly well that brings success…

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Key Takeaways

Understand benefits of monitoring your cloud

How to connect on premises to cloud

Start monitoring

SCOPE

SCOPEBenefits of monitoring the cloud with SCOM 2012 SP1

Connect on premises with the cloud• Prerequisites• Certificates• Discovery

Start the monitoring of your Cloud services

Tips & Tricks

Benefits

Today’s Transformation – Cloud

Usage BasedElastic

Self-Service

Pooled Resources

Economics ▪ Agility ▪ Focus

You Manage You Manage

Vendor Manages

You Manage

Vendor Manages

Platform(as a Service)

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Applications

Runtime

Data

Software(as a Service)

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Applications

Runtime

Data

Infrastructure

(as a Service)

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Data

Applications

Runtime

You Manage

Vendor Manages

Cloud ServicesOn Premises

Storage

Servers

Networking

O/S

Middleware

Virtualization

Data

Applications

Runtime

Windows Azure Cloud Services (Stateless VM’s)

Web Role Worker Role

A place for your application code to run…

compute

websitesVMscloud

services

Web role is simply a Virtual Machine with IIS pre-configured

Worker role is for non-IIS web, back-end business processes

You package your code/artifacts and Windows Azure bootstraps a VM, installs the code and starts up the VM. Instances are automatically load balanced.

Windows Azure Virtual Machines

Management Portal

Scripting (Windows, Linux and Mac)

compute

websitescloud

services

REST API

Getting Started Select Image and VM Size

New Disk Persisted in Storage

Boot VM from New Disk

VMs

Windows Azure Web SitesQuickly and easily deploy sites to a highly scalable cloud environment with the frameworks and open source apps of your choice

Supports multiple frameworks (ASP.NET, Classic ASP, PHP, Node.js)

Pick from popular Open Source apps

Pick your DB (SQL Azure, MySQL)

Choose your tools (Visual Studio, Git, FTP, WebMatrix)(Windows, Mac, Linux)

compute

cloud services VMs

GIT : FTP

GIT : FTP

GIT : FTP Web Deploy : TFS Deploy

Supported Deployment Protocols

websites

Build on any platform

Connect

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Prerequisites

SCOM 2012 SP1

Azure Subscription with running services

Azure management pack loaded

Certificates

Internet connected Management server

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Certificates

Connection is made via Certificate chain

Manual upload required but easier than a Gateway server

Assures encrypted connection between on premises and cloud for monitoring

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Discovery

After successful connect Discovery kicks in

No monitoring yet

Azure is billing by use so no monitoring by default

You can choose what to monitor

DEMO: Configuration

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Start

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Start monitoring

All azure components in “not monitored” state

New template available to monitor specific services

Create your own mp

Configure monitoring

DEMO: Start monitoringDieter Wijckmans

Tips & Tricks

Metricshub

Web based performance monitoring

Available for free in the azure app storeEasy dashboard to calculate cost prediction

Recently acquired by Microsofthttp://www.metricshub.com

Integrate Azure management in SCOM

Integrate Azure management in SCOM

Add website to custom made management pack

Secure and make available through webconsole

Thank You to our SPONSORS

Q and A

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