If you are using Network Virtualization from Microsoft you probably also using Multi-Tenant Gateways. In such scenario the gateways become critical part of your infrastructure and would be best if you can monitor them. Continue reading “Quick Look at Multi-Tenant RRAS Management Pack”
Category: Routing and Remote Access
New MP: System Center 2012 Monitoring Pack for RemoteAccess 2012
Another management pack for monitoring Windows Server 2012 role is out. This new MP will monitor Remote Access only in Windows Server 2012. Also SCOM 2012 or later is only officially supported. Accoriding to the documentation the following monitoring features are provided:
DirectAccess Monitoring
- Issues with internal and external network adapter connection and settings such as forwarding
- Teredo server state and configuration
- Isatap availability and configuration such as name publishing and route publishing
- 6to4 adapter and forwarding state
- Heuristics around network security such as DOS attack, spoof attack and replay attack and state of IPSec
- State of network infrastructure like Dns servers, Management servers configured for DirectAccess
- IP-Https state and configuration
- State of various underlying services such as BFE, IPHelper etc needed for Remote Access
- Heuristics related to OTP
Most of the health monitoring scenarios that can be monitored using the native DirectAccess UI have been included in the management pack.
VPN Monitoring
Existing capabilities for RRAS management pack have been included in the unified management pack as well. We’ll summarize the monitoring capabilities for RRAS included in the unified management pack:
· Remote access (VPN) connection failures due to erroneous configuration.
· Demand-dial (site-to-site) connection failures due to erroneous configuration.
· Erroneous configuration of VPN tunnels:
· Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
· Layer Two Tunneling Protocol (L2TP/IPSec)
· Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP)
· Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2)
· Connection licenses, registry corruption, authentication, and accounting issues for remote access
· VPN network access protection (NAP) enforcement and Network Access Quarantine Control access issues
· Erroneous configuration and setup issues involved with various routing protocols that are exposed through RRAS, such as the following:
· Routing Information Protocol (RIP) v1 and v2
· DHCP Relay Agent
· Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
· DHCPv6 Relay Agent
· Monitors and alarms to notify the administrator about erroneous conditions. These conditions include the following:
· Hardware device error
· Protocol initialization failure
· Remote Access Connection Manager (RASMAN) service unexpected termination
· Routing and Remote Access service unexpected termination
· Routing and Remote Access service monitor
· Authentication or accounting failures
· Configuration failures
· IPsec-related failures
· Packet filter-related failure
· IPCP negotiation failure
· Memory allocation monitor
· Memory allocation failure
· No more licenses monitor
· Port open failures
· Support for monitoring performance counters and instrumentation, including the following:
· Total number of remote access connections
· Total number of timeout and serial overrun errors for this connection
· Total number of alignment errors for this connection (alignment errors occur when a byte received is different from the byte expected)
· Total number of buffer overrun errors for this connection (buffer overrun errors occur when the software cannot handle the rate at which data is received)
· Total number of bytes received for this connection
· Number of bytes received per second
· Total number of bytes transmitted for this connection
· Number of bytes transmitted per second
· Total number of cyclic redundancy check (CRC) errors for this connection (CRC errors occur when the frame received contains erroneous data)
· Total number of data frames received for this connection
· Number of frames received per second.
The MP and its guide you can download from here.
Windows Server 2012 Upgrade Jump Start Training
This Jump Start Training was held live last month and now it is available as a recordings. This course is led by Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist Rick Claus and Ed Liberman from TrainSignal. The course is divided in 12 topics which can be found as separate videos here.
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Tracks
As soon as Windows Server 2012 went into General Availability MVA released a fair amount of videos to cover the new functionalities. So watch and learn for free:
Windows Server 2012: Technical Overview
Server Virtualization Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Server Virtualization Part 1
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Server Virtualization Part 2
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Server Virtualization Part 3
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Server Virtualization Part 4
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Server Virtualization Part 5
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Server Virtualization Part 6
Networking Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Networking Part 1
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Networking Part 2
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Networking Part 3
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Networking Part 4
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Networking Part 5
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Networking Part 6
Storage Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Storage Part 1
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Storage Part 2
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Storage Part 3
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Storage Part 4
Identity and Access Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Identity and Access Part 1
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Identity and Access Part 2
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Part 1
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Part 2
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Part 3
Web and Application Platform Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Web Application and Platform Part 1
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Web Application and Platform Part 2
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012 Web Application and Platform Part 3
Windows Server 2012: Server Virtualization
Virtual Machine and Scale Mobility Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Live Migration of Virtual Machines with Nothing Shared
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Live Migration of Virtual Machines using SMB File Share to store Virtual Machine Files
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Live Migration between Clusters
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Storage Migration
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Importing a VM
Windows Server 2012: Storage
Storage Spaces Module
SMB 3.0 Module
- Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) and Cluster-Aware Updating Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Setting up Clustered Shared Volumes
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Add disk to CSV in Windows Server 2012
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: BitLocker on Cluster Share Volumes
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Add Storage Space to Cluster Share Volumes
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Node Drain
File System Enhancements Module
Windows Server 2012: Networking
Managing Network Infrastructure Module
IP Address Management (IPAM) Module
Hyper-V Network Virtualization Module
Windows Server 2012: Management & Automation
Standard Based Management with Windows Management Framework Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Standards Based Management
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Simple and Easy to Automate
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Multi-Machine Server Management
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Local Server Experience and Deployment Options
Multi-Server Management with Server Manager Module
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Deep Dive into Core Functionalities
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Deep Dive into Server Manager – Advanced Deployment
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Personalizing Your Experience with Server Manager
You can also logon to MVA and find the track there.
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server 2012
Here are 8 new videos from MVA about what Windows Server 2012 will offer:
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Beyond Virtualization with Windows Server "8" (Part 1)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Beyond Virtualization with Windows Server "8" (Part 2)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” – The Power of Many Servers, The Simplicity of One (Part 1)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” – The Power of Many Servers, The Simplicity of One (Part 2)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” – Every App, Any Cloud (Part 1)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” – Every App, Any Cloud (Part 2)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” Beta – Modern WorkStyle Enabled (Part 1)
- Microsoft Virtual Academy: Windows Server “8” Beta – Modern WorkStyle Enabled (Part 2)