WHY WE WANT YOU TO MIGRATE

TO

SCOM 2016System Center MVP Bob Cornelissen

http://www.bictt.com/blogs

BICTT

System Center MVP Natascia Heil

Systemcentertipps.wordpress.com

Celanese

Natascia Heil

MVP CDM

23 year in IT, 7 years SysCtr

Dancing, Reading, Chocolate

@Bob_Cornelissen

6 Year Microsoft CDM MVP

17 years in IT

Dogs, ice-cream. Game: Stormfall

Natascia HeilBob Cornelissen

AGENDA

What is the goal

Why should you care

The Details

Summary

Q&A

THE GOAL

Migrate your SCOM to the 2016 version

or plan to do so

WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?

Makes life of the SCOM Admin easier (you)

And makes the other users of SCOM's services happier (or less disappointed)

Make better use of your hardware resources

Monitor more (though a lot is possible with 2012 R2 as well)

Stay up to date / Supportability

NITTY GRITTY DETAILS

Some examples of features and changes which will help:

The SCOM Admin

The SCOM Operators

The design and resource usage

SCOM 2016 INSTALLATION

Installs on Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016 - Full versions

SQL 2014 and 2016 for clean install

SCOM Console install on Windows 10 and 2016 is supported

Mind the SQL CLR and ReportViewer prerequisites

Web Console still requires Silverfreakinglight, but big part is now HTML5 based and

more to follow!

Windows 2003 and XP agents no longer supported

Does not say it does not work, though only with 2012R2 agent and if the

machine has prerequisites like PowerShell installed.

Do not use another DB name than standard (Blog)!

KNOWN PROBLEMS / TUNING

Known problems:

SCOM Console crashes after October Windows cumulative updates on Win10 & Server 2016

Agent crashes IIS Application pool

SharePoint 2010 Pack does not work due to DLL reference

Scheduled Maintenance does not work (fix)

Tuning:

SCOM management server registry key tuning

IN-PLACE UPGRADE

Upgrade from SCOM 2012 R2 UR9 and up is recommended for in-place upgrades.

Windows 2012 R2 and SQL 2012 SP2 is supported.

Procedure is a few steps more than an UR upgrade, but not difficult to do

Make sure your SCOM infra is healthy before you start the procedure!

Visit our session

“Upgrading to SCOM 2016 Best Practices”

on Wednesday at 3 PM to learn more!

ALERTS TUNING

Which Management Packs

create the most alerts?

Which Monitors/Rules

Which Sources

Override

KEEPING PACKS UP TO DATE

Packs needing

Updates

Packs not yet

implemented

Packs partially

installed

More Information for

the target servers

Guides and Download

page linked

EASIER TO FIND 3RD PARTY SOLUTIONS

Find 3rd party packs

Go direct to their product page

MAINTENANCE MODE

Scheduled Maintenance Mode:

It finally happenedduring our life timeto have this in the product!

Monitoring Pane

Not just SCOM admins problem

PowerShell

Verb-scommaintenanceschedule

Agent Maintenance Mode:

Start-SCOMAgentMaintenanceMode

Maintenance Mode

LINUX/UNIX MONITORING IMPROVEMENTS

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

New Shell Command Templates added to allow execution of any script (shell, Python, PERL etc.) to get health and performance

So no longer single line command.

Also no need to escape characters inside the scripts

Target a single computer or group of computers with the new Shell Command Templates and a new agent task option

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE FOR LINUX/UNIX

MONITORING AND SCALING

Real scale improvements for cross-plat monitoring(was max 500 per MS and now 1000 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

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE SCOM CONSOLE

Less time to grab a coffee

Work is being done in parts, so expect more at future update rollups

Classic views first

Dashboard views and widgets

Measurable change for Operators to work with the full console

Also updates made to the underlying SDK

HTML5 (PARTLY) WEB CONSOLE AND IMPROVING

PERFORMANCE

Web Console still requires Silverfreakinglight, but big part is now HTML5 based and more to follow!

Initial screens

Classic views like Alert, State, Performance, Diagram

Expect more to follow in Update Rollups

Dashboard and Widget views, renewed

Cleanup

MANAGEMENT PACKS

WINDOWS 2016 ROLES AND FEATURES

Windows Server 2016 Core OS

Failover Clustering

NLB

Print Server

Active Directory

ADFS

ADRMS

BranchCache

DHCP

File & Print Services

IIS

Guarded Fabric

AD Domain Service

Windows Server Essentials

DTC

Nano

Remote Desktop Services

Storage Spaces Direct

And more!

MORE MANAGEMENT PACKS

SharePoint 2016

CRM 2016

SQL 2016

Exchange 2016 -> NOT

(its deemed to work with the Exchange 2013 pack)

System Center 2016

SCSM, SCDPM, SCO, SCVMM, SPF, SMA

Kevin Holmans Agent Management Pack

NANO AGENT SUPPORT

Script based installation or push-based installation

Separate Agent

ACS forwarding for security events

IIS and DNS role packs and more are coming

LAMP STACK MONITORING

MySQL + MariaDB

Apache web server

ON Linux/UNIX !

EXTENSIBLE NETWORK MONITORING

Extensible Network Monitoring Management Pack Generator tool

A GUI based tool on top of an executable which creates a network device

monitoring management pack

Import SNMP MIB

Create discoveries for non (SCOM-)certified devices

Create monitors and performance collection rules for discovered class

instances

Create custom classes with custom monitoring

Create the Pack and import into SCOM (also SCOM 2012 R2)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54083

EXTRA POINT WE WANT TO MAKE

SCOM is alive and being updated to cover more monitoring scenarios

Currently it can monitor things which are not possible in OMS

It is not replaced by OMS, but augmented in both directions

Keep in mind a lot of work goes into OMS these days,

So:

VS

HYBRID MONITORING IS THE FUTURE, THIS WEEK WE

WILL SHOW YOU WHY

Quick and Dirty SCOM Primer for Those Being Thrown into the Deep End of

Monitoring (Tue, May 16th, 10am)

Gain Super Insight with OMS and a Proper SCOM Design (Tue, May 16th, 1pm)

OMS, ATA and Security Center mixer (Wed, May 17th, 8am)

Save on Metrics! Managing the Data Flow from SCOM to OMS (Wed, 17th, 1pm)

Upgrading to SCOM 2016 Best Practices (Wed, May 17th, 3pm)

Azure MP vs Azure Monitor – Clash of Titans (Thu, May 18th, 8am)

OMS Solutions: The Next Generation of Management Packs? (Thu, May 18th, 10am)

SUMMARY

Migrate to SCOM 2016 if you can in the future

Make use of the new features and make them known to others

Check if Hybrid monitoring scenarios between SCOM and OMS help you

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Q&A IS OPEN

No Config Mgr related questions

Previously asked questions:

Q: Do the number of SCOM Devs fit in a phone booth?

A: No, even though most are from India

Q: Is there a pricing impact on running SC 2016 coming from 2012 R2?

A: Ask your license vendor, I have never been able to figure out pricing

Q: Is it allowed to feed the presenters?

A: Yes it is