2. Managing your hybrid cloud datacenter
with SCOM 2012 and what’s new in SP1
Walter Eikenboom
Principal consultant
Inovativ

4. Where does OpsMgr fit in private cloud

5. A fool with a tool
People Process Technology

6. Operations Manager 2012
Network
Virtualization
OpsMgr Cloud
(Application) Services
Operating Systems

7. Operations Manager 2012
X X

8. Whats new in OpsMgr 2012 SP1
Infrastructure App Insight Communication
Enhanced network Global Service Monitor 360 dashboards
monitoring
Enhanced APM: WCF, MVC, DevOps scenarios
Storage monitoring .NET Windows services
Virtual fabric monitoring
DAC and ACS

9. Network monitoring
Native support RTM:
Discovery Monitoring • Multi-vendor support
– 80 brands, 2000+ devices
• Multi-protocol support
– SNMP v1/v2c/v3, IPv4 en IPv6
Supported devices types:
• Bridges
• Firewalls
• Load Balancers
• Routers/Switches/Hubs
• Server NIC to network realtion
Visualization Reporting New SP1:
• Monitoring of hundreds of new network devices
Virtual network monitoring (based on OM-VMM connection)
• Network (Virtual) Vicinity Dashboard
• Virtual Node Dashboard

10. Network discovery
• From management or gateway • Port/Interface
server only • Up/Down (operational & admin status)
• Volumes of inbound/outbound traffic
• % Utilization
• Single discovery rule per server • Discards, Drops, Errors
• Processor
• % Utilization
• Discovery can be a scheduled • Memory
task or manual activity • In depth memory counters (Cisco Only)
• Free memory

11. Storage Monitoring Capabilities
• Based on OM-VMM connection
• Alerts for thin provisioning
threshold events
• Dashboards
– Viewing historical capacity
utilization
– Identifying which VMs are
affected by capacity
exhaustion

12. Viewing Application Availability in Dashboards
and Reports
• Rich visualizations enable
availability pillar of 360o
monitoring
– Map view of availability
– Detailed latency graphs
– Comparison with SLAs
and SLOs

13. demo
System Center 2012 SP1
Operations Manager

14. Audit collection service and
Dynamic access control

15. Audit Collection Services architecture
Monitored
Clients Audit Collector Audit DB
Monitored Servers
Events subject to tampering Events under control of auditors

16. Dynamic Access Control: In a nutshell

17. Dynamic Access Control
Share Permissions Access
NTFS Permissions Control
Decision

18. Dynamic Access Control
Share Permissions Access
NTFS Permissions Control
Central Access Policy Decision

19. Central Access Policy Report

20. File Property Report

21. demo
Audit Collection Services

22. Application Performance Monitoring
and Global Service Monitor

23. Application Performance Monitoring
 APM in OpsMgr is a lightweight profiler
 Monitors applications in production
 Isolate and triage issues
 Provide the application team with the details they need
• Performance
Triage • System state
event • Isolate tier • Event details
• Exception event • Assign owner
Detect Diagnose

24. Transactions
Component Type Transactions SCOM 2012 RTM Transactions SCOM SP1
ASP.NET Web Application  ASP.NET web page  ASP.NET web page
 ASP.NET web service  ASP.NET MVC page
 Function  ASP.NET web service
 WCF method
 Function
ASP.NET Web Service  ASP.NET web page  ASP.NET web page
 ASP.NET web service  ASP.NET MVC page
 Function  ASP.NET web service
 WCF method
 Function
WCF Service No transactions were allowed  ASP.NET web page
 ASP.NET MVC page
 ASP.NET web service
 WCF method
 Function
NT Service Component type did not exist  WCF Method
 Function

25. DevOps Monitoring
Web Test +
Target URL +
Schedule
Web Test
Global
Service
Visual Operations
Results + Monitor
Studio 2012 Manager Intellitrace
Call Web
Workitem +
Results +
Intellitrace
! App
On-Premise Production
Results
Application

26. Global Service Monitor
2
6

28. Global Service Monitor resources
You can sign up for a free trial account and use Global Service Monitor for free for
up to 90 days.
Beyond the 90-day free trial period, System Center Global Service Monitor is only
available to customers with active Microsoft Software Assurance coverage for their
System Center 2012 server management licenses.
This Software Assurance benefit will be available in March 2013 in supporting
countries.
• http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/system-center/global-
service-monitor.aspx
• http://technet.microsoft.com/library/jj860368.aspx
• http://systemcenterdynamics.wordpress.com/2012/07/16/global-service-
monitor-on-opsmgr-2012/

29. demo
Application Performance
Monitoring and Global
Service Monitor

30. Monitoring your Hybrid datacenter

31. Cloud Services monitoring
On Premises You Manage
Infrastructure Platform Software
(as a Service) (as a Service) (as a Service)
Applications Applications Applications Applications
Data Data Data Data
Runtime Runtime Runtime Runtime
Vendor Manages
You Manage
Middleware Middleware Middleware Middleware
O/S O/S O/S O/S
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization
Servers Servers Servers Servers
Storage Storage Storage Storage
Networking Networking Networking Networking

32. Monitoring cloud like it is your infrastructure!
Data Synchronization
SQL Azure Data Sync
Application-layer
Connectivity & Messaging
Service Bus
Secure Machine-to-Machine
Network Connectivity
Windows Azure Connect
Secure Site-to-Site
Network Connectivity
Windows Azure Virtual Network
IP-level connectivity

33. Connecting to the Cloud
SharePoint PaaS Roles
File Servers Local AD SQL VMs

34. DevOps and TFS

35. DevOps is…
… set of processes, methods and systems for
communication, collaboration and integration
between departments for Development, Operations
and QA.*
Developers are getting Operations embraced
integrated
into operational service
new role of Service
delivery processes (App) Owner

36. Application Lifecycle
DEVELOP Product
Backlog
OPERATE
Idea to working software Lack of App Incident to Resolution
Trend Data
Can’t Get
Actionable
Feedback Can’t Reproduce
Production Incident
Can’t Identify
Root Cause
Sprint Monitor
Testing
Root-cause Ops
Backlog
Release Mgmt Change Mgmt &
Provisioning
Working Software

37. demo
Integration with TFS 2012

38. Whats new in OpsMgr 2012 SP1
Infrastructure App Insight Communication
Enhanced network Global Service Monitor 360 dashboards
monitoring
Enhanced APM: WCF, MVC, DevOps scenarios
Storage monitoring .NET Windows services
Virtual fabric monitoring
DAC and ACS

39. System Center trainingen!

40. Bedankt! Vragen?
Bio: Walter Eikenboom
As principal consultant Walter is specialized in infrastructure
optimization where automation and simplifying operations is one of
his key strengths by overviewing people, process and technology to
manage the most complex infrastructures. Innovation and pre-sales
consultant on Microsoft System Center, private Cloud en workspace
optimization with a vision in designs. Walter provides workshops and
presentations on proactive and automating infrastructure
management, moving to a new platform or solution. Walter loves to
talk with customers on how the world is changing and how IT should
adapt to stay aligned with your business. Follow me on Twitter
@wwwally or
contact me walter.eikenboom@inovativ.nl to stay in touch.