Saturday 30 July 2016

System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - About Reporting & some useful Reports - Part 7

Hello Everyone,

In this blog, I will share information about Reports in SCOM. 

Reports are basically used for getting detailed information of either utilisation, performance or health status of monitored objects or other applications reports like any web applications or database reports etc.

SCOM generates many reports based on analysing and fetching data for monitored objects from both operation manager database & data warehouse database. You can also exports those reports in multiple formats like excel, pdf etc.


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Part 1: To see SCOM Prerequisites & Installation Process, Click Here!

Part 2: To see SCOM Post configurations, Click Here!

Part 3: To see SCOM Console Overview, Click Here!

Part 4: To see SCOM Agent Installation Process, Click Here! 

Part 5: To see PRO-Tips configuration between SCVMM & SCOM, Click Here! 

Part 6: To see configuring monitors & rules, Click Here!

Let's start understanding SCOM Reports in more details...


ABOUT REPORTS:


Technical Term: Reports are easy to read data which is generated by running queries against operation manager & data warehouse databases.

Microsoft has shared definition on each default reports in SCOM, To see, Click Here!


Types of Reports:


  • Published Reports: These are predefined generic reports which are available after installing SCOM & Reporting Service which generates reports based on monitored objects.

  • Linked Reports: These reports are linked to existing reports which fetches data & generate more detailed information using custom management packs.

  • Custom Reports: You can also generate custom reports by writing custom queries in visual studio and using custom management packs.

  • Report Solution: These are also customised reports which uses visual studio scripting & different expertise queries to generate high level or critical data reports.


Components of Reports:


  • Databases - Operation Manager & Data warehouse Databases
  • Data warehouse Server 
  • Management Pack
  • Management Server
  • Operation Manager Reporting Server
  • Reporting Data warehouse



How to Run a Report in SCOM:



Open SCOM Console, Click on Reporting Tab, Expand Reports, Click on any reporting folder (I will show You Host Utilisation Report in SCVMM Report Folder), Select the Report which You want to Run & Click on Open in Task Menu on right side of console:



A new windows will open. You can change Time period for report & Time Zone as per Your requirement. Click on Add Object:



Click on Option to see which class is selected: (NOTE: Appropriate Class must be selected for the report else no data will be displayed. You have to be careful for selecting class):



By Default VMHost Class is selected for Host Utilisation Report. To see all list of classes click on Add:



Click on Search, It will display all classes list from which You can select appropriate class for report:


You can select any class, click add and then Click OK, OK:



Once done, Click on Search:



Select Host, Click on Add & OK:




Object (Host) is added so Click on Run:



Below is the result of Host Utilisation Report for the time period selected:



This is how all reports are opened. You need to select appropriate class for the report.

Also, You can export reports in multiple formats as shown below:

  • XML file with report data
  • CSV (comma delimited)
  • PDF
  • MHTML (web archieve)
  • Excel
  • TIFF File
  • Word


How to schedule a Report:



You can also schedule any report to be exported on daily/weekly/monthly basis and save then at any local or remote location.

To schedule any report, Select report & Click on Schedule in Task menu on right side of console:



Give description & delivery method. There are 3 delivery methods:

  • Windows File Share: For this, You must create any shared folder where exported file will be saved.
  • Email Delivery: In this, You have to first enable email settings in SSRS. Once done, You will be able to share exported report to added emails.
  • Null Delivery Provider: This is highly specialised delivery extension which is used to pre-load a cache with ready-to-view parameter reports. This is not available for users in individual subscription but used by administrators in data-driven subscriptions to improve reporting server performance by pre-loading the cache.

In my screenshot, EMail Delivery option is not available because it's setting is not enabled so I have selected Windows File Share:



After Selecting Windows file share option, You have to provide below details:

  • File Name
  • File Path
  • Render Format
  • Write mode - Auto-increment or Overwrite
  • User Name
  • Password


After Providing details, Click Next & Select schedule times as per Your requirement:



Select the Parameters: Object, Time Duration & Time Zone, Click Finish:



and,



Now click on Scheduled Reports to see all the reports which are scheduled, By Selecting scheduled report, You can Open, Edit Schedule or Cancel Schedule by clicking option in Task View on right side:




Report is successfully exported:




You can also view report:



This is the all process for scheduling any report.


Some Important Reports which gives useful monitored data reports which are good to know:


There are some important reports which can give You very useful monitored data for Your organisation so I will share screenshots for the same.


Microsoft Generic Report Library:



Microsoft ODR Report Library:




Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 Reports: (This folder will be avialble after configuring PRO-Tips between SCOM & SCVMM which I have shown in previous blog post):



System Center Core Monitoring Reports:




Windows Server Operating System Reports:





Some Sample Reports:


Alerts Per Day Report:




Management Pack ODR Report:




Most Common Alerts Report:



and,



Data Volume by Workflow & Instance:

Virtual Machine Utilization:

Performance By System:


and,



and,



and,




Like above, You can view many reports. SCOM is powerful tool for monitoring & reporting Your infrastructure, databases & applications... :)



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Sunday 24 July 2016

System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 - Configuring Rules & Monitors - Part 6

Hello Everyone,

In this blog, I will try to explain about Rules & Monitors and how to configure them. By default, some of the rules & monitors are enabled but some are not enabled for monitoring. To monitor required service or applications etc, You must overrides respective rules & monitors to enable monitoring.

Part 1: To see SCOM Prerequisites & Installation Process, Click Here!

Part 2: To see SCOM Post configurations, Click Here!

Part 3: To see SCOM Console Overview, Click Here!

Part 4: To see SCOM Agent Installation Process, Click Here! 

Part 5: To see PRO-Tips configuration between SCVMM & SCOM, Click Here! 

Let's start with understanding about Monitors & Rules in SCOM...


ABOUT MONITOR:


Monitors are used to calculate the Health status of any object which is monitored by SCOM. This helps in identify the health status of monitored objects like:

  • Healthy State (Green Icon) - This state defines that Agent or Management Servers are running normally with no issue.

  • Warning State (Yellow Icon) - This state defines that defines that there is some alert which needs to check like disk space about to finish, memory/CPU utilisation is high or some other service related warning alerts.

  • Critical State (Red Icon) - This state needs higher attention as it indicates that there is problem with either communicating with agent or particular monitored object has some issue or any critical service is down etc.

  • Unknown State with Grey Icon: This state indicates that Management Server is not receiving heartbeats from the agent. Earlier agent was responding but later it stop responding due to which it states changed to grey icon.

  • Unknown State with Green Circle only (No Green Tick mark within circle): This indicates that there is no monitor available for the discovered item.
 There are basically three types of Monitors are available:


  • Unit Monitor: Used for checking a performance counter to determine the performance of the application, running a script to perform a synthetic transaction, or watch for an event that indicates an error. Classes will typically have multiple unit monitors targeted at them to test different features of the application and to monitor for different problems.

  • Dependencies Monitor: These monitors are depend on health state of another monitor health.


  • Aggregates Monitor: This provides unique health status of different classes by combining health state of similar monitors.



ABOUT RULES:


Rules are certain functions, logic's or formulas which is used to evaluate and generate data for monitored objects which is used for analysis & reporting.

There are three main purposes of Rules:
  • Alerting Rules: This creates an alert based on any event which detected by agent.

  • Collection Rules: These Rules only collect data for performance monitoring of object and store them in SCOM Database & Data warehouse. This rule does not generate any alert or set any health state.

  • Command Rules: These are customised rules which uses scripts & run on particular schedule which is set by admin for any particular task. 

How to check Health Status of any monitored object:


To check Health state of any monitored object, Go to Monitoring Tab, Expand Monitoring and Click on Active Alerts:


Right Click on any alert, Click on Open and then click on Health Explorer:


New window will open with complete health status and overall summary details, You can find the root cause for issue by & expanding & clicking on this issued filter:


If You click on State Change Event then this will show the detail of status changed with Date & Time and current last status:



This is how You can check the health status of any monitored object. This will also help to understand the issue root cause & how to troubleshoot the same.

How to Enable or Disable any Monitor or Rule using Overrides:


To enable or disable any monitor or rule, same process is followed so I will show You for only one i.e. Rule.

Open Authoring Tab, Expand Authoring, Expand Management Pack Objects & Click on Rules:


Right Click on any rule which You want to Enable or Disable, Click on Overrides, Click on Override the Rule & select appropriate option as per your requirement:



Enable the rule by tick mark on Override column and set the override value:


NOTE: You can also enable other rules and set values as per requirements like Interval etc.

Then Select either default management pack or create custom management pack to override this rule and click on apply & OK:


This is how any Rule or Monitor is Enabled. For enabling Monitor, instead of Rules, Click on Monitor:


Rest all process is same.

To disable any Monitor or Rule, You have to choose Disable the Monitor or rule instead of override the Monitor or rule:



This is all about configuring Monitor & Rules. You can also create custom Monitor or Rules as per requirement which I will in my next blog post.

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Saturday 23 July 2016

System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 Blog List

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Below are the blogs list for Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 which helps You to follow them in sequence. I will keep adding new blog details about SCDPM in below list.


BLOGS LIST:


System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 - Deployment Requirements and Process - Part 1!


System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 - Agent Installation, Backup Type and Process - Part 2!


System Center Data Protection Manager 2012 R2 - Recovery Type and Process - Part 3!




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I am Mayank Dhama, working in IT company and having an overall experience of 3.6+ Years on multiple technical skills. 


I have started this blog to share my knowledge on multiple skills I have learned and helping IT Engineers to learn about the same using this blog. 


My blogs will help You to understand technical understanding, prerequisites, deployment process, post-configurations & product overview with screenshots in details.


Right now, I am writing about Microsoft Products like System Center Suites, Hyper-V, EMS, MBAM etc. 


My Skills are:

  • SCVMM (System Center Virtual Machine Manager)
  • SCSPF (System Center Service Provider Foundation)
  • WAP (Windows Azure Pack - MS Private Cloud)
  • SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager)
  • SCOM (System Center Operation Manager)
  • SCDPM (System Center Data Protection Manager)
  • EMS (Enterprise Mobility Suite - Basic)
  • MBAM (Microsoft Bitlocker Administration & Monitoring)
  • Hyper-V 2012/2012 R2/2016 TP5*
  • Windows Clustering
  • Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/ 2016 TP5*

Certifications:

  • MCP  Windows 7:  70 – 680
  • MCTS Server 2008 R2: 70 – 659
  • MCSA Server 2012:  70 – 410, 70-411, 70-412
  • MCSE - Private Cloud with System Center 2012 : 70 – 246, 70 – 247
  • MCSE - Cloud Platform & Infrastructure


About my quality, I am good in troubleshooting issues.

There is a quote by Dalai Lama: "Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality."

With help of this blog, I will keep sharing my knowledge about all skills what I will keep learning in my IT Career.

For any query, You can post Your comments on blogs or You can write in my Facebook group which I have created for sharing knowledge on trending technologies, issues or any other references. I am not expert but I will try my best to give You appropriate solution or suggestion.


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Friday 22 July 2016

Hyper-V Blog List

Hello Everyone,

Below are the blogs list for Hyper-V. I will keep adding new blog details in below list.


BLOGS LIST:


HYPER-V 2016*:

Hyper-V - Features - Part 1!



Hyper-V - Console Overview & Configurations changes which can be done using Hyper-V/VM Settings - Part 4!


Hyper-V 2012 R2 - Disaster Recovery Configuration and Testing through Hyper-V Replica - Part 6!


Hyper-V 2012 R2 - Expand IDE Controller Virtual Hard Disk Size - Part 7!


Hyper-V - Other Tasks - Part 8!




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Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) Blogs List

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Below are the blogs list for Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite. I will keep adding new blog details about EMS in below list.


BLOGS LIST:


EMS - Overview including capabilities!


Azure Active Directory:


EMS - Azure Active Directory Premium : Integration between Azure AD and on-premises using Azure AD Connect - Part 1!


EMS - Azure Active Directory Premium : Integration between Azure AD and on-premises using Azure AD Connect - PART 2!


EMS - Azure Active Directory Premium : Integration between Azure AD and on-premises using Azure AD Connect - PART 3!



Intune:


EMS - Microsoft Intune : Basic Overview with Prerequisites - Part 1!


EMS - Microsoft Intune : About Templates and MAM Policies with Descriptions for all platform - Part 2!






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