Installing Avicode (APM) monitoring – Client Side

Client side monitoring is fully integrated into the SCOM 2012 beta console. Just be aware before configuring client side monitoring:

  • Server side monitoring must be implemented before client side monitoring for a web application (you can use client side monitoring without server side monitoring for a specific web application).
  • The CSM Collector is now automatically local to the client agent.
  • Make sure that you check to ensure that your application is suitable for client side monitoring

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August 2nd, 2011
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Avicode (APM) monitoring – where is SE Viewer?

There are a couple of ways to see the SE Viewer:

  • In the SCOM 2012 console, under Application Monitoring, .Net Application monitoring, there is a Resource Utilisation web page
  • You can open a web browser and go to http://webconsoleservername/AppDiagnostics (you’ll also see the website for AppAdvisor)

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August 2nd, 2011
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Avicode (APM) Monitoring – New Security Roles

For enterprises that want to give their developers access to the SE Viewer and SE Advisor consoles without having any rights within OpsMgr itself, there is a new security role – Operations Manager Application Monitoring Operator.

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August 2nd, 2011
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APM Client Side Monitoring – troubleshooting

When I first installed and configured client side APM monitoring I couldn’t get any alerts or performance data. Here are some troubleshooting tips which helped me resolve the issue (with a little help from my friends - thanks Shawn and Vitaly!).

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August 2nd, 2011
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SCOM 2012 beta, Re-installing SharePoint Web Dashboard Web Part

You might have seen that SCOM 2012 beta includes a SharePoint Web Part that displays selected dashboards from the Web console. The configured Web Part allows you to see at a glance the availability and performance metrics for applications in your environment.

It is particularly useful for providing current status views to individuals in your organization who are not Operations Manager users. Full details on installation and configuration are here and I’ve had no problems on either the CTP releases or the current beta:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212924.aspx

You might find that once you’ve installed and configured the Web Part that if you decide to uninstall and then re-install that the re-install will fail. It seems that the uninstall doesn’t remove all the files and this blocks any re-install. The solution isn’t obvious (well, at least it wasn’t to me!).

Thanks to Bill Hodghead who helped me out on this one.

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August 1st, 2011
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Export-SCOMEffectiveMonitoringConfiguration

A new cmdlet that allows you to export the effective configuration for an agent. I can’t get the example on the SCOM help file to work but have re-written it below. It will create a seperate csv file for each monitored server. Good Luck!

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July 26th, 2011
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Avicode becomes APM

Avicode is now integrated into SCOM 2012 as APM (Application Performance Monitoring) but there are some important caveats.

July 25th, 2011
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Upgrade considerations

Just a quick heads up on a couple of items that need to be considered if you will be looking to upgrade OpsMgr 2007 R2 to SCOM 2012 at some future date.

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July 23rd, 2011
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Network Device Discovery – one discovery rule per Management Server

In SCOM 2012, A Management Server can only run one network device discovery rule. So if you already have one network device discovered, when you try and create a new discovery rule you won’t have any Management Servers available.

You’ll either need to:

- edit the original discovery rule to cover both network devices

- add another Management Server

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh278846.aspx

“Each management server or gateway server can run only one discovery rule. You specify a single management server or gateway server to run the discovery rule and a management server resource pool to perform the actual monitoring of the network devices.”

Kevin Holman does a great walk-through here.

July 23rd, 2011
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New PowerShell cmdlets – All change

Some good news. Some bad news.

Good news first – some great new cmdlets, including enable \ disable scomrule and scomonitor. And a real biggie, export-scomeffectivemonitoringconfiguration.

Bad news .. all the scripts have changed. They now have a ‘SCOM’ prefix in the name and the parameters have changed. NewMaintenanceWindow becomse Set-SCOMMaintenanceMode and the parameters have changed.

To bring a hint of good news to proceedings. The SCOM 2007 cmdlets still seem to work. They may well now be classed as deprecated as could well disappear in future versions but at least it looks like we’ll get some extra time to do all the conversions.

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July 22nd, 2011
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