In a recent project, the management were keen to see some dashboards and insights into their organizations shiny new infrastructure.
Whilst SCOM gives some great data and statistics, it’s not overly helpful in demonstrating the high level view to management out of the box.
This is where Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS)Â steps in..
Background: This engagement included a new Hyper-converged platform (Hyper-V and Storage Spaces Direct) managed and monitoring with System Center (SCVMM and SCOM), so we had a great foundation to light up OMS and some chosen solutions.
How to create a custom service monitor and automatically restart it
For this little demo, we will be using the Print Spooler service and targeting Windows Operating System
This will target all version of Server and Client OS but I won’t go into rollups here
In SCOM Console
Authoring > Monitors > Create a Monitor > Unit Monitor
Take a look at the varying out of the box options, many different monitor types available.
Moving SCOM 2012 R2 operationsdatabase to SQL Cluster. Process derived from this TechNet article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/hh278848.aspx Quick overview of the environment Versioning of my environment: System Center Operations Manger 2012 R2 w/ Update Rollup 4 SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU8 Windows Server 2012 R2
Existing servers and role: OM01 - Management Server OM02 - Management Server OM03 - Management Server OMSDB\OMDB - Operations Database Server / SQL Server 2012 SP1 OMSDW\OMDW - Data Warehouse Server / SQL Server 2012 SP1