Tag: monitoring

New MP: BizTalk Server 2013 Monitoring Management Pack

A new MP is released. This MP gives you the opportunity to monitor your BizTalk 2013 Servers. If you want to monitor 2010 BizTalk Servers there is a separate MP for them which was quite noisy. Let’s hope the new MP will give us better monitoring without flooding SCOM with useless alerts. There is only one way to find out. Download and try the MP from here.

Note: Remember to read the guide before importing. Keep in mind that the MP uses Run As Profiles and I suggest to use them instead of using the default action account.

MP Update: BizTalk Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack

BizTalk Server 2010 MP has been updated. According to the change log only one change is made:

  • Changed discovery to handle a large amount of BizTalk artifacts

The new version can be downloaded from here. If you deploy for first time remember to read the guide first.

New MP: Hyper-V Management Pack Extensions 2012

The Hyper-V MP provides good monitoring but certainly that MP can be extended to provide more advanced monitoring. For Hyper-V 2008 R2 MP some Microsoft employees extended that MP and provided this extension MP at codeplex site. Now they are providing us with similar extension MP for Hyper-V 2012 MP.

New features in this release:
VMs Integration Services Version monitor
Hyper-V Replica Health Monitoring Dashboard and States
SMB Shares I/O latency monitor
Included features from previous release
Hyper-V Hypervisor Logical processor monitoring
Hyper-V Hypervisor Virtual processor monitoring
Hyper-V Dynamic Memory monitoring
Hyper-V Virtual Networks monitoring
NUMA remote pages monitoring
SLAT enabled processor detection
Hyper-V VHDs monitoring
Physical and Logical Disk monitoring
Host Available Memory monitoring
Stopped and Failed VMs monitoring
Failed Live Migrations monitoring

Keep in mind that the management pack is with beta status. You can download it from codeplex site.

Simulate monitoring of network devices with Jalasoft by Kevin Holman

Very good article by Kevin Holman if you plan to test network devices monitoring in SCOM.

New MP: System Center Management Pack for Windows Server 2012 DHCP

Microsoft released another new MP as they promised. You can grab the new Windows Server DHCP 2012 MP from here. This MP introduces the following new features:

  • All workflows are implemented using PowerShell to improve overall functionality for this Management Pack.
  • Failover Relationships are now a supported configuration that is being discovered and monitored by the new 2012 Management Pack.
  • Discovery and Monitoring of a DHCP Cluster installation.
  • Scopes, super scopes utilization is being monitored based on events that provide 80% and 100% usage.
  • Utilization of scopes based on policies, client packet drop and residual IP addresses range monitoring.

The MP has very good documentation so read it before importing.