SCOM 2016 –Back to the Future

Bob Cornelissen

Managing Consultant, MVP

BICTT

Dieter Wijckmans

Managing Consultant & Partner, MVP

Coretech Benelux

@Dieterwijckmans

3 Year Microsoft MVP

In IT since the dinosaur age

Sushi, Belgian fries (no not the French ones!)

@Bob_Cornelissen

5 Year Microsoft MVP

16 years in IT

Dogs, ice-cream. Game: Stormfall

Dieter Wijckmans aka Marty McFlySCOM-Bob Cornelissen aka Doc Brown

Agenda

• Talking about the cool new features and improvements arriving with SCOM 2016

• Showing demo’s of some of the features

Roads? Where we’re going we don't need roads!

Design, Install, Upgrade

• Installs on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows

Server 2016

• Requires SQL 2012 SP2 or SQL 2014

• You no longer need to specify the SQL collation

SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS during installation

• In-place upgrade from SCOM 2012 R2 using the

same methods as upgrading 2012->2012R2

Design, Install, Upgrade

• No support for monitoringlegacy Windows Server 2003

(which does not sayit will not work)

• Added support for Windows 2016 and Windows 10

regular agents, and Nano Server agents

Scheduled Maintenance Mode

“I’m gonna read your thoughts”

Jumping 30 years in time

1955 – 1985 - 2015

• Wizard driven interface

• Multiple schedules possible

• Currently located in the

SCOM Admin pane

–Make yourself heard to

change this!

Scheduled Maintenance Mode

MP updates and Recommendations

• SCOM can now check what management packs you are missing based on your monitored server workloads!

• Uses a custom management pack with simple discoveries to

check for missing packs and packs which need updating.

• Install single or multiple advised packs (including multipart

packs) and download the guide - directly from one place.

• In TP5 a number of workloads have been added to the list

MP updates and Recommendations

Data driven Alert Tuning

SCOM Admins can use this as a primary view to start tuning alerts, based on data from the environment

Starting version TP5

Data driven Alert Tuning

Which MP’s create the

most alerts?

Which Monitors/Rules?

Which Sources?

Override!

Demo

Extensible Network Monitoring

Making it easier to add custom network monitoring to SCOM!

Implementation in several steps in future updates

First step: Place custom SNMP OID’s in a formatted XML file and run an executable which will convert it as a monitoring pack into SCOM

Extensible Network Monitoring

Next step: Create a console interface to add custom OID’s to add to monitoring and let it handle the conversion and import into SCOM.

Improvements UNIX/Linux monitoring

• OMI agent sharing between OpsMgr, ConfigMgr & DSC

• Multi-threaded shell command/script executions

• File system discovery can be filtered by type or name using overrides.

• Target a single computer or group of computers with the new Shell

Command Templates and a new agent task option.

Improvements UNIX/Linux monitoring

Run any script to get health or performance (shell, python,

perl, etc.).

– So no longer single line command.

– Also no need to escape characters inside the scripts.

This is a big thing!

Improvements UNIX/Linux monitoring

Real scale improvements for cross-plat monitoring

(was max 500 per MS)

How?

Replacing the WSMAN Sync API

with

Async MI API

= Windows Management Infrastructure using CIM Standards which are

part of the new OMI agent

Nano Agent Support

• First agent release was in TP4

• Script based installation

• Separate Agent

• As of TP5 also push-based installation

• Also new in TP5: • ACS forwarding for security events.

• IIS and DNS role packs.

Nano Agent Support

Current Limitations:

• No VB of JS script based monitoring

• Must be in same domain as SCOM

• MSI installer not available

• No .Net and Process monitoring

• No Application Log

• No URL, OLEDB, ICMP

• No AD integration for agent

• No easy updates for agent in Windows Update

Demo

Preferred Partner Program

Making it possible to get preferred partner management packs from the SCOM Admin pane.

• Basic certification process

• Free management packs

• Silect, Comtrade

• Veeam, Nice, SquaredUp

• More coming

Console UI response improvement

88 MpH

• Removing Sluggishness

• TP5 -> Alert Views

• Future -> State, Diagram, Performance

• Basically make better use of the cache, so performance increase also on slower databases

• Looking at improvements in the SDK layer

Management Packs!

• Updates and improvements to existing management packs, i.e. Office 365, Azure, Windows 2016 + role&features, Exchange, SQL…

• LAMP Stack and Linux apps monitoring:• Apache HTTP Servers v2.2 +

• MySQL v5-5.7 & MariaDB V5.5 & 10

• MongoDB & PostGre SQL still in planning

• Fabric and Storage monitoring not based off VMM

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Donation box near registration area and

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$15 = 1 month food

And Then …