1. Kåre Rude Andersen
Create a ScomBot – Automate
and monitor Azure

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

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

4. Automating everything
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Automating everything
Installation and Disaster recovery
Agent Installation
SCOM Maintenance

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

6. Internal Rules and Monitoring
• SCOM Rules
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Optimize Indexes
Partitioning and Grooming
Alert Auto Resolve Execute All
Detect and Fix object space inconsistencies
Discovery Data Grooming
Maintenance Mode
Transfer Events

7. Demo
• Internal Rules and Monitors

8. Using and Monitoring Azure
• Monitor Resources
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Import MP
Create Certificate
Configuration
Run Template

9. Using and Monitoring Azure

10. Using and Monitoring Azure
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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

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

12. Global Service Monitor
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Create account
Configure Settings
Create Web Availability
Use IT
Configure internal
watchers with PS

13. Demo
• Configure GSM and Own Locations

14. Application Insights
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/
2013/11/13/announcing-application-insightspreview.aspx

15. Advisor
• Create Groups in
SCOM
• Create Rollup and
Present

16. Demo
• Configure Advisor

17. News in 2012 R2
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Advisor
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System Center Management Pack for VMM Fabric Dashboard 2012
R2
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IPv6 ifm Network Discovery
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Microsoft Monitoring Agent (Intellitrace)
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Java APM (Tomcat, JDK, GenericServlets, Struts, Struts2, Axis)
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Dashboard Performance

18. 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

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

20. Please evaluate the session
before you leave
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