2. DevOps: Azure Monitoring & Authoring Updates for Operations Manager 2012 SP1
Daniele Muscetta
Marcin Jastrzębski
Brian Wren
AM-B306

3. Agenda Introduction DevOps Management Pack updates
Management Pack for Windows Azure Fabric – Preview
Management Pack authoring
Visual Studio Authoring Extensions
Management Pack content and knowledge

4. Application Lifecycle – common challenges
Operations
No actionable feedback resulting in high MTTR
Production incidents are hard to debug
PROBLEM ASSIGNED TO ENGINEERING
Develop
Rapid reaction to feedback
Development & testing
Users detect defects in production
Fix
Monitor
Operate
Software to value delivery
Unable to reproduce error in development environment
OPS
BACKLOG
Isolated operations tools and workflows
Long deployment cycle times
WORKING SOFTWARE

5. SYSTEM CENTER 2012 CAPABILITIES AND COMPONENTS
Service Delivery and Automation
Service Manager
Orchestrator
Infrastructure Management
Application Management
Virtual Machine
Manager
App Controller
Operations
Manager
Virtual Machine
Manager
Configuration
Manager
Operations
Manager
Data Protection
Manager 5

6. Management Packs Updates for Workloads
Best of breed Monitoring for Workloads
Consistent, World-Class Manageability
Community Involvement (MVPs, MS Teams)
Knowledge, Knowledge, Knowledge
Continued investment
45 MPs (new or updated) released since January 2012
Updated Sustained Engineering Process
Upcoming MPBPA updates

7. Management Pack for Windows Azure Fabric – Preview
New monitoring capabilities
based on customer feedback and Azure functionality
Hybrid monitoring scenarios
New dashboards for service health
Bug fixes

8. Management Pack for Windows Azure Fabric – Preview
Simplified configuration experience
Cloud Service monitoring
Virtual Machine monitoring (Availability)
Storage Account monitoring (Availability and Size)
Certificate health monitoring (expiration)
Azure Distributed Application Template (hybrid scenarios)
New monitoring dashboards and views
Service Availability Dashboard
Service Capacity Dashboard
Service Topology Dashboard
Service Vicinity Dashboard

9. Management Pack for Windows Azure Fabric – Preview
Daniele Muscetta

10. Management Pack Authoring
Operations Console
Overrides
Tweaking
Dashboards
Basic Authoring
MP Templates
Visual Studio Authoring Extensions
XML
Advanced Authoring
Custom MPs
MP Bundles

11. Overview: Visual Studio Authoring Extensions
Full power of MP schema
Author MPs in a standard development environment
IntelliSense
MP Code navigation
Templates
Copy / Paste / Rename (Refactor)
1-click build  verify  deploy
Source control integration
MP Bundle packaging
Managed modules
Dashboards

12. Visual Studio Authoring Extensions
Marcin Jastrzębski

13. Changes: Visual Studio Authoring Extensions
Visual Studio 2012 support
MP Import Wizard improvements
MP Simulator improvements
Updates to MP Best Practice Analyzer
Bug fixes

14. New Documentation Strategy
Source
Contents
TechNet Wiki
Documentation for authoring tools
TechNet Gallery
Samples (MP, VSAE)
TechNet Blogs
Announcements
MSDN Library
Module and SDK Reference
mpauthor

15. MP Authoring Content Management Pack Authoring Guide
Moved to TechNet Wiki
Community Collaboration
Updated to include new tools
System Center
Integration Guide
Integration across components
Guidance on each technology
Overview of MPs and IPs.
Authoring Hub
Single umbrella for authoring content
Cross component solutions

16. Resources Visual Studio Authoring Extensions MP Authoring Guide
Download
TechNet Wiki
MP Authoring Guide
System Center Authoring Hub
MPAuthor Blog
Related sessions
IM-B401 Utilizing and Developing Dashboards in Operations Manager 2012 SP1
IM-IL301 Creating a Management Pack in Visio

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