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SCOM 1801 released

08/02/201813/02/2018
by Martin Ehrnst

[Quick publish]

Today Microsoft released System Center 1801 which includes the semi-annual release for Operations Manager. That it self is a huge step for SCOM, but the latest release also includes a lot of fixes and many new features. Read the announcement here

SCOM 1801 Announced

What’s in System Center, version 1801?

System Center, version 1801 focuses on enhancements and features for System Center Operations Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, and Data Protection Manager. Additionally, security and bug fixes, as well as support for TLS 1.2, are available for all System Center components including Orchestrator, Service Management Automation, and Service Manager.

I am pleased to share the capabilities included in this release:

Support for additional Windows Server features in Virtual Machine Manager: Customers can now setup nested virtualization, software load balancer configuration, and storage QoS configuration and policy, as well as migrate VMware UEFI VM to Hyper-V VM. In addition to supporting Windows Server, version 1709, we have added support for host monitoring, host management, fall back HGS, configuration of encrypted SDN virtual network, Shielded Linux VMs on Hyper-V management, and backup capabilities.
Linux monitoring in Operations Manager: Linux monitoring has been significantly improved with the addition of a customizable FluentD-based Linux agent. Linux log file monitoring is now on par with that of Windows Server (Yes, we heard you! Kick the tires, it really works).
Improved web console experience in Operations Manager: The System Center Operations Manager web console is now built on HTML5 for a better experience and support across browsers.
Updates and recommendations for third-party Management Packs: System Center Operations Manager has been extended to support the discovery and update of third-party MPs.
Faster, cost-effective VMware backup: Using our Modern Backup Storage technology in Data Protection Manager, customers can backup VMware VMs faster and cut storage costs by up to 50%.
And much more including Linux Kerberos support and improved UI responsiveness when dealing with many management packs in Operations Manager. In Virtual Machine Manager, we have enabled SLB guest cluster floating IP support, added Storage QoS at VMM cloud, added Storage QoS extended to SAN storage, enabled Remote to VMs in Enhanced Session mode, added seamless update of non-domain host agent, and made host Refresher up to 10X faster.
As well as consistent evaluation and license experiences across components.
Customers should consider supplementing System Center with Azure security & management capabilities for enhanced on-premises management and for the management of Azure resources. We have included the following updates in System Center, version 1801:
• Service Map integration with Operations Manager: Using the Distributed Application Diagram function in SCOM, you can automatically see application, server, and network dependencies deduced from Service Map. This deeper endpoint monitoring from SCOM is surfaced in the diagram view for better diagnostics workflows.
Manage Azure ARM VMs and special regions: Using a Virtual Machine Manager add-in, you can now manage Azure ARM VMs, Azure Active Directory, and more regions (China, US Government, and Germany).
Service Manager integration with Azure: Using the Azure ITSM integration with Azure Action Groups you can set up rules to create incidents automatically in System Center Service Manager for alerts fired on Azure and non-Azure resources.

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Operations Manager and MSOMS 101

05/02/2018
by Martin Ehrnst

Today I was collecting information for a colleague interesting in learning more about SCOM. Apart from sharing my own knowledge, I browsed “all” the known SCOM oriented blogs available collecting information. When I got to Kevin Greene‘s blog he had published a blog post saying that Antoni had rewritten his SCOM 101 PDF in to a new blog series . It is eight years ago since Antoni Hanus and Jesse Harris (Microsoft PFE) wrote an Operations Manager 101 for SCOM 2007. That Antoni have gotten around to rewrite this definitely deserves a blog post just to link to his blog.

Read the entire series here

ps: the original document can be downloaded here. Nostalgia!

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System Center 1801 preview release

08/11/201708/02/2018
by Martin Ehrnst

Update February 8 2018:

Microsoft released system Center 1801 today. Read more here https://adatum.no/operationsmanager/scom-1801-released

Today, Microsoft annouced that a preview of the next System Center realease (1801) is available for download. This is a preview of the upcoming version, scheduled for Q1 2018. The key focus points for 1801 was announced at Ignite and includes.

Support for Windows Server version 1709: Support for the latest version of Windows Server with host monitoring, host management, configuration of encrypted SDN virtual network, Shielded Linux VMs on Hyper-V management, and backup capabilities.
Support for additional Windows Server 2016 features in Virtual Machine Manager: Now customers can setup nested virtualization, software load balancer configuration, Storage QoS configuration and policy settings, and migrate VMware UEFI VM to Hyper-V VM.
Linux monitoring in Operations Manager: Customers can now realize granular log file monitoring in Linux using a customizable FluentD-based Linux agent. Linux log file monitoring is now at par with that of Windows Server.
Improved web console experience in Operations Manager: The SCOM web console has been moved completely to HTML5 with support for all browsers, out-of-the-box widgets, and widget customization.
Updates and recommendations for third-party Management Packs: We released the MP Updates and Recommendations feature in System Center 2016. This has been expanded now to support the discovery and update of third-party MPs.
Faster, cost-effective VMware backup: Using our Modern Backup Storage technology in Data Protection Manager, customers can backup VMware VMs faster and cut storage costs by up to 50%.
In Operations Manager:
- Improvements to Linux MPs
- Linux Kerberos support
- Improvements to Windows Server OS MP
- One setup for all languages
- Improved UI responsiveness with large number MPs
- Visual Studio 2017 support in VSAE
In Virtual Machine Manager:
- SLB Guest cluster floating IP support
- Storage QoS at VMM Cloud
- Storage QoS extended to SAN storage
- Remote to VMs in Enhanced Session mode
- Seamless update of non-domain host agent
- Support for fallback HGS for Shielded VM
- Host Refresher made up to 10X faster

Read the full announcement of the preview here, and the new release cadence for more information.

Community

SCOM Community MP Catalog

24/10/201719/12/2019
by Martin Ehrnst

Another great SCOM community contribution from the guys over at SquaredUP and Nathan Foreman – an open sourced community management pack catalog for SCOM. This basically lets you discover community management packs directly within the SCOM console, much like the built-in version and the announced partner catalog.

It will also show (or notify you) on any updates to the already installed MP’s you have installed and listed in the catalog.

As part of the moderator team, I encourage everyone to check it out or contribute on GitHub

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Hunting quick closing SCOM alerts

12/10/201712/10/2017
by Martin Ehrnst

I had a feeling that we had alot of alerts that closed automatically, very quickly and without any interaction from automation. To get an overview I put together this SQL query to run against the Datawarehouse DB.

The query joins three views and extract the alert Guids, name, ManagedEntity (monitoring object) and alert name.

select Res.AlertGuid, Res.TimeFromRaisedSeconds, Alert.AlertName, Entity.ManagedEntityDefaultName, Entity.ManagedEntityGuid from Alert.vAlertResolutionState AS Res INNER JOIN Alert.vAlert as Alert on Res.AlertGuid = Alert.AlertGuid INNER JOIN vManagedEntity AS Entity on Alert.ManagedEntityRowId = Entity.ManagedEntityRowId where Res.TimeFromRaisedSeconds < '30' AND Res.StateSetByUserId = 'System' AND ResolutionState = '255' AND Alert.RaisedDateTime >= DATEADD(day,-30, GETDATE())

With a little help from my DBA we ended up with this which also group alert name and count the # of alerts for each object
select --Res.AlertGuid --, Res.TimeFromRaisedSeconds COUNT(*) ,Alert.AlertName --, Entity.ManagedEntityDefaultName , Entity.Path , Entity.DisplayName from Alert.vAlertResolutionState AS Res INNER JOIN Alert.vAlert as Alert on Res.AlertGuid = Alert.AlertGuid INNER JOIN vManagedEntity AS Entity on Alert.ManagedEntityRowId = Entity.ManagedEntityRowId where Res.TimeFromRaisedSeconds < '49' AND Res.StateSetByUserId = 'System' AND ResolutionState = '255' AND Alert.RaisedDateTime >= DATEADD(day,-4, GETDATE()) GROUP BY AlertName, Path, DisplayName
For other useful SCOM SQL Queries, take a look at Kevin Holman’s blog

SCOM 1801 released

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