Came across this the other day and it might be of interest to some folk in the UK:
Troubleshooting Network Devices
A great article from Stefan Koell:
Visio 2010 Add-in For SCOM 2007 R2 still (seems to) work
I’ve been playing around with the dashboards some more and it seems that despite changes to the SCOM SDK, the Visio 2010 for SCOM 2007 R2 works with SCOM 2012 beta. The integration with SharePoint 2010 seems fine so although it would be great to have a Distributed Applications widget in SCOM 2012 beta, it does seem that we can still leverage the web part for building richer dashboards.
Going forward, a Distributed Application widget would have the advantage that any changes to the Distributed Application would automatically be updated in the Dashboard – at present, you need to update Visio for changes to propogate through to the dashboard.
APM (Avicode) – why aren’t my web applications discovered?
Michael Guthrie gave a great explanation of how the web applications and web services are discovered on the SCOM forums
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What’s new in SCOM 2012?
I’ll give a quick run through and then start to expand with specific articles that give more information:
1) The Root Management Server no longer exists – More info
2) The default management pack is no longer the default location to save overrides – More info
3) Resource Pools for High Availability for Network Devices and non-Windows agents – More info
4) The System Center Services now run on all Management Servers – More info
5) Maintenance Mode changes – More info
6) PowerShell cmdlets – More info
Some specific examples of new PowerShell scripts:
- export-scomeffectivemonitoringconfiguration
- disable-scommonitor
- enable-scommonitor
- disable-scomrule
- enable-scomrule
7) Network Device Disovery – More info
(8) Upgrade considerations – More info
9) Avicode becomes APM – More info
10) New Dashboards and SharePoint Web Part integration – More Info
New Dashboards and SharePoint Integration
SCOM 2012 beta sees some snazzy new dashboards including a Network Summary Dashboard and a Management Group Health Dashboard. Even better, you can create your own dashboards and then display them via SharePoint.
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Installing Avicode (APM) Monitoring
A quick roll call of what is new can be found here.
Part 1 – Pre-requisites
Part 2 – Server Side Monitoring
Part 3 – Client Side Monitoring
Part 4 – Where is SE Viewer and Advisor
Part 5 – New Security Roles
Installing Avicode (APM) monitoring – prerequisites
Note:
- Only supported for applications running on IIS7
- Avicode 5.7 Management Packs not supported on SCOM 2012
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Installing Avicode (APM) Monitoring – Server Side
This is a run through of configuring Server Side monitoring of web applications with SCOM 2012.