manager 2012 : what’s new - houston area systems management
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System Center Operations Manager 2012: What’s new and how to get there?
Cameron Fuller Principal Consultant
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Agenda
What is new in OpsMgr 2012?
Release dates for OpsMgr 2012
How to get there?
Q&A
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Integrated Network Monitoring
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Built on EMC Smarts technologies
Integrated Network Monitoring
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Options for discovery? Explicit or Recursive, Scheduled or On Demand.
Integrated Network Monitoring
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• What ports are monitored? By default ports connected to another device that is being monitored
834 currently listed including 583 Cisco switches and routers
• What devices get extended monitoring?
Integrated Network Monitoring
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What gets discovered varies depending upon the device • Port/Interface
• Up/Down (operational & admin status) • Volumes of inbound/outbound traffic • % Utilization • Drop & Broadcast rates
• Processor: % Utilization • Memory
• Free Memory • In depth memory counters (only on Cisco)
Integrated Network Monitoring
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What about reports? Built-in reports:
Integrated Network Monitoring
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Integrated with OpsMgr 2012 dashboard functionality
Integrated Network Monitoring
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Network Monitoring Demo
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Application Performance Monitoring
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• Integrated .NET monitoring (via AVIcode purchase) • Requires the Base OS management pack and the
IIS7 management pack • New template: .Net Application Performance
Monitoring
• OpsMgr does not provide monitoring for IIS 2003
unless the OpsMgr environment has already has AVIcode and the environment is upgraded
Application Performance Monitoring
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• Integrated .NET monitoring (via AVIcode purchase) • Application Advisor and Application Diagnostics
consoles added
Application Performance Monitoring
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• Java EE (J2E) Web Service Monitoring • Java EE Application Servers • WebSphere 6.1 & 7.0 • WebLogic 10gRel3 & 11gRel1 • JBOSS 4.2 & 5.1 (JVM 1.5+), JBOSS 6 (TBD) • Tomcat 5.5 & 6.0 (JVM 1.5+), Tomcat 7 (TBD)
Application Performance Monitoring
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Application Performance Monitoring Demo
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Architectural Enhancements
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• The RMS is dead!
Architectural Enhancements
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• The RMS is GONE • But there is an RMS Emulator Role
• Increased scalability • Decreased memory requirements on the
Management Servers (Configuration Service stores Config data in the database instead of memory)
Architectural Enhancements
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• Management Servers can now be in POOLS
• Almost like a FSMO role in AD • Pools distribute workload among multiple MS’ • Such as: Group Calculation, Availability, Distributed
Monitor Health Rollup, DB Grooming, Notification
Architectural Enhancements
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Architectural Enhancements Demo
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Integrated Dashboards
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• Dashboards are distributed as Management Packs • Dashboards are created with a Dashboard view
which has either a Column or Grid layout
• Widgets are added to the layout in the Dashboard view (Column View shown to the right)
Integrated Dashboards
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• Widgets currently available: Alert, Performance, State (more expected – Performance view below)
Integrated Dashboards
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Consistent user experience across multiple ways to access the Dashboard
Integrated Dashboards
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Dashboard Demo
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“Feature 5”
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• A non-publicly announced feature is scheduled to be added to OpsMgr 2012 which covers an area that OpsMgr has not done historically.
• This is a long-awaited and frequently asked for by OpsMgr users.
• “Feature 5” will most likely be announced at MMS 2012.
“Feature 5”
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• The first public OpsMgr 2012 Beta was released on 7/21/2011
• Next Release Dates: • Release Candidate (RC) • Release To Manufacturing (RTM) • General Availability (GA)
• Microsoft committed at MMS 2011 that all System Center Products would have their new revisions completed before MMS 2012 [4/16/12]
OpsMgr 2012 Release Dates
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How to get there?
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1) Architecture: Split ‘em up 2) Design for the Future 3) Go with the latest version 4) Tune with Groups 5) Have standards for Overrides and MP names 6) Build a test/dev environment 7) Document overrides & custom MP’s 8) Less is more with Notifications 9) Get a win 10)Phase in Management Packs
How to get to OpsMgr 2012? – Before we GO there – My Top 10
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New Environments: Fresh installation
• Requires Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit)
• SQL 2008 SP2 and above
• .NET 4.0
How to get to OpsMgr 2012?
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Existing Environments: In-Place Upgrade – same requirements as a fresh installation
• Requires Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit)
• SQL 2008 SP2 and above
• .NET 4.0
How to get to OpsMgr 2012?
Can upgrade from Opsmgr 2012 Beta – RC - RTM
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Existing Environment: Multi-Homed – The vast majority of clients will most likely use this approach
How to get to OpsMgr 2012?
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Relevant Links General:
• OpsMgr blog articles: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/
Network Monitoring in OpsMgr 2012:
• What gets monitoring by OpsMgr 2012 Network: http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/09/20/what-gets-monitored-with-system-center-operations-manager-2012-network-monitoring.aspx
• How to discover network components in OpsMgr 2012: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/07/21/opsmgr-2012-discovering-a-network-device.aspx
• What devices get extended network monitoring: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26831
• Marnix Wolf on OpsMgr 2012 network monitoring: http://thoughtsonopsmgr.blogspot.com/2010/11/scom-vnext-part-iii-network-monitoring.html
Application Monitoring in OpsMgr 2012:
• .Net Monitoring in OpsMgr 2012: http://gotchahunter.net/2011/07/net-monitoring-in-scom-2012-beta/
• Configuring .Net performance monitoring: http://www.baydynamics.com/Blog/post/2011/08/19/Configuring-Net-Application-Performance-Monitoring-in-SCOM-2012-and-Analyzing-with-IT-Analytics.aspx
• J2EE Monitoring download:
• http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26804
Dashboards in OpsMgr 2012:
• Introducing OpsMgr 2012 Dashboards: http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/09/27/introducing-operations-manager-2012-dashboards.aspx
• Adding OpsMgr 2012 Dashboards to SharePoint: http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/09/27/setting-up-the-operations-manager-web-part.aspx
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Coming in January System Center Universe 2012
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Q & A