1. Quick and Dirty SCOM primer for those being thrown in the deep end of monitoring
Cole McDonald - Senior Technical Analyst
Beyond Impact
@knightscape
Nathan Foreman – Solutions Engineer
C. H. Robinson

2. Cole McDonald Nathan Foreman @knightscape @Nate_Foreman
Family Man, Pyrrhonian Skeptic
MCSE, MCSA, CCNA
27 years
10+ Years in IT
Spicy, really spicy!
Wood Fired Pizza, Sushi

3. ? Why SCOM? Uptime Historical Data Realtime Alerting Automation Engine
Reports
Graphs
Realtime Alerting
Proactive rather than Break/Fix
Automation Engine
VBScript
Powershell
Customizable to your environment ?

4. Dataflow Client Machine Agent Management Server DB, DW PORT:5723!
(Proxy)
Agent
(Gateway)
Management Server
DB, DW
PORT:5723!

5. ! ! Alerts Realtime Scriptable Customizable Multiple bands
Tasks
Customizable
Multiple bands
Deep Information (.NET into applications) ! !

6. Demo
Show Agent Health Remediation, health Viewer, Performance counter history... Little tour of the console interface.

7. Object Structure An OBJECT is an INSTANCE of a CLASS Management Pack
Monitoring Object / Host
Group / Subgroups
Monitor / Rule / Task
Override
Powershell Auditing / Relationships

8. Brief DB Layout HAHAHAHA Kevin Holman’s SQL Queries
Typical SQL Rat’s Nest made to drive normal people insane
Alert
Event, Performance
State
ManagedEntity
Kevin Holman’s SQL Queries
DB/DW Schema Layout
operationsmanagerdw-database-information/

9. Break/Fix Follow the Data Path of least impact for service restarts
Agent / Proxy Agent
Gateway Agent
Management Agent
Gateway Server Restart
Management Server Restart
SQL Instance Restart
SQL Server Restart

10. Reports for Tuning Most Common Alerts Most Common Events SCOM SSRS
Direct from the SQL (Kevin Holman’s Queries)

11. Demo
SCOM DW counters from KH SQL scripts. Most Common Events / Alerts Reports. # of servers / management Server # of gateways / management server. Round robin nature of data dump.

12. Sleep on the weekends Back to Why SCOM? Tuning Auto Remediation
Build to your environment
Build EWS to lower stress
Uptime As A Service
Tuning
Install Management Pack
Watch Alerts
Common Sense Adjustments
Auto Remediation
Powershell FTW!
DevOps Platform
Timers and Conditional based

13. Custom Monitors Event Log Perf Counter Threshold Suppression !!!
Easiest
Pick a representative event log
Choose a source and ID
Perf Counter Threshold
Tied to a rule for historical data
Perfmon + Threshhold
Suppression !!!
Alert Floods Suck
Manual vs. Auto Close
Now you see me!

14. Fabric Monitoring Frogs in the pond Performance Monitoring
Find the early indicators!
Identify Event Progressions
Performance Monitoring
CPU
MEM
Free Space
Rollup monitor
Distributed Application
SQL + AOS + AX
SQL + IIS + DNS

15. Demo
Look at the Authoring options for custom monitoring.

16. Discussion/Questions
Useful Links:
Tao Yang:
Wei Lim:
Bob Cornelissen:
Cameron Fuller:
Kevin Holman:
Natascia Heil:
Nathan Foreman:
Cole McDonald (Me):

17. Squared Up famous whisky tasting session!
(unlisted, secret session)
5pm
Cedar Room
“Birds of a feather” style session focused on the SCOM Community and where next for SCOM
With whisky! (yes, whisky!!)