As part of some pre-sales related work that I was asked to look into, I spent some time working with what is available via System Center 2012 to provide monitoring for applications which are deployed in Windows Azure. I quickly found that this is not a simple question to answer and started gathering up lessons…
I had a few minutes of free time today to check into the System Center Universe mobile application today and it looks very cool. Check out the screenshot below from my “preferred mobile device”. Check out the universe on the mobile platform of your choice – look for “SCU2013” in the App Store, the Play…
During a recent blog post, I used the DPM integration with Azure to backup some of my content in my home lab to the cloud. Pretty soon after I started my backup, the complaints started coming in from the other users of this Internet connection. Quotes included “Why is NetFlix so slow?”, and “Who’s taking…
To see how DPM 2012 SP1 integrates with Azure from a backup perspective, I recently spent some time testing this integration. Prior to performing this integration there are two things need to be done ahead of time: 1) Have DPM 2012 installed with SP1 2) You also need to have a Microsoft account for organizations…
For background here, there was an article written entitled: Top 5 Reasons Why Sysadmins Should Find SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor a Refreshing Alternative to Microsoft® SCOM. This article discussed five benefits they see to using SolarWinds versus System Center Operations Manager. In this article they referenced an article I had written for Windows IT…
I just received word that registration for SCU 2013 has passed the 1000 attendee mark! Thank you to everyone who has signed up for this event – I am looking forward to this more every day! There are still seats available both in person in Irving and at our simulcast locations! Sign up soon, as…
As part of further learning how System Center 2012 works with Azure, I spent some time recently working with integrating App Controller with an Azure subscription. With App Controller, there are no downloads required to integrate with Azure (such as the management pack for Operations Manager or the integration pack for Orchestrator). This blog posts…
Digging around on the web it looks like there are a lot of good resources out there that people have put together to provide assistance with extending monitoring of Azure from Operations Manager. The following is a set of links that I found during our investigation on how to extend what information we are…
The quick answer here is that the current SQL Azure management pack (http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/applications/monitoring-pack-for-sql-azure-ctp-12884935376) is not available as a production version yet, and the CTP version does not support Operations Manager 2012. If you attempt to add this management pack in Operations Manager it will add correctly and show the following additional Management Pack Template: However,…
During a recent Operations Manager deployment, we spent some time working with the Azure management pack. We investigated the performance counters which are collected by the Operations Manager Azure management pack, the views to display performance counters from Azure and in this article we also include a link which has information on how to add…
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