System Center Operations Manager 2012: What’s new and how to get there?

Cameron Fuller Principal Consultant

Agenda

What is new in OpsMgr 2012?

Release dates for OpsMgr 2012

How to get there?

Q&A

Integrated Network Monitoring

Built on EMC Smarts technologies

Integrated Network Monitoring

Options for discovery? Explicit or Recursive, Scheduled or On Demand.

Integrated Network Monitoring

• 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

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

What about reports? Built-in reports:

Integrated Network Monitoring

Integrated with OpsMgr 2012 dashboard functionality

Integrated Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring Demo

Application Performance Monitoring

• 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

• Integrated .NET monitoring (via AVIcode purchase) • Application Advisor and Application Diagnostics

consoles added

Application Performance Monitoring

• 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

Application Performance Monitoring Demo

Architectural Enhancements

• The RMS is dead!

Architectural Enhancements

• 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

• 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

Architectural Enhancements Demo

Integrated Dashboards

• 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

• Widgets currently available: Alert, Performance, State (more expected – Performance view below)

Integrated Dashboards

Consistent user experience across multiple ways to access the Dashboard

Integrated Dashboards

Dashboard Demo

“Feature 5”

• 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”

• 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

How to get there?

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

New Environments: Fresh installation

• Requires Windows 2008 R2 (64 bit)

• SQL 2008 SP2 and above

• .NET 4.0

How to get to OpsMgr 2012?

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

Existing Environment: Multi-Homed – The vast majority of clients will most likely use this approach

How to get to OpsMgr 2012?

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

Coming in January System Center Universe 2012

Q & A