In this final post of the series ‘Monitor your Azure RemoteApp environment with OpInsight’ I want to take a look in how we can monitor the User Profile Disks. The User Profile disk mechanism is used to save ‘personal’ data of users in Azure RemoteApp. Each user will get a 50 GB User Profile Disk (VHD) which will be mounted during the logon process of the user. In this blogpost I want to focus on how we can monitor the usage of the User Profile Disk by using the Near-Realtime-Performance monitoring functionality of OpInsight.
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Monitor your Azure RemoteApp environment with OpInsight – Part 3
StandardIn the first part I explained how you can connect your Azure RemoteApp instances to Azure Operational Insights. You can find this blogpost here. In the second blogpost I showed you which OpInsight solutions are very useful looking to the management which needs to be done on the Azure RemoteApp instances when using a custom image. You can find this second blogpost here. In this third post I want to focus on monitoring the usage of your Azure RemoteApp collection. With OpInsight it’s possible to collect values from performance counters of the agents. Through this functionality we can also the actual usage of the Azure RemoteApp collection. Based on your Data Plan you can save this information for a period of time and see if the usage is increased or decreased.
Monitor your Azure RemoteApp environment with OpInsight – Part 1
StandardWith this blogpost I want to explain how you can connect your existing Azure RemoteApp environment with Azure Operational Insights. Operational Insights is part of the Operations Management Suite and is a cloud monitoring solution which can be used to collect information from different sources. In this blogpost I want to focus on adding a Hybrid Azure RemoteApp collection to OpInsight. In coming blogposts, I will explain what Azure Operational Insights can monitor from the Azure RemoteApp environments.
SCOM 2012: Behavior when renaming a Windows agent
StandardYesterday I received a question about how SCOM 2012 R2 is dealing with renames of servers. Will SCOM create new objects or will it just rename the existing objects. My first short answer was that a rename of a computer object will result in new objects in SCOM. In this blogpost I want to show you ‘prove’ for the fact that new objects are created.
SCOM: Service Monitoring – Part 1
StandardThe last couple of months I was busy with ‘preparing for’ and ‘presenting on’ 2 events. My first presentation was on a Dutch community event called Expertslive and 2 weeks ago I presented on the 4th edition of the NIC conference. The topic of both presentations was Service Monitoring. How can we enhance our monitoring by adding Service Monitoring to our SCOM environments? In the following series of blogposts I want to share this information also through my blog. In this first part I want to look into what’s Service Monitoring.
SCOM 2012 ACS: Powershell Collector (automatic) failover script
StandardLast week I was installing a SCOM 2012 R2 environment with Audit Collection Services. Audit Collection Services is one of the additional functionalities of SCOM 2012 R2. ACS uses one or more Management Servers for the collector role. This role will collect all security logs from the agents. The challenge with the collector role is about the high availability of this role.
SCOM 2012 Network Monitoring: Rename Network Adapter
StandardEveryone who has implemented SCOM 2012 Network Monitoring will be satisfied with the improvements with respect to SCOM 2007. More and more devices can be deeply monitored with SCOM 2012. One of the downsides at this moment is the naming of the Network Adapters. The name inside SCOM does not always reflect the name on the switch. See the following example:
SCOM 2012: Adding Health State of Services to State View Part 2
StandardLast week I wrote a post about adding health states of services to state views. The orginal blogpost can be found here. Today I created some improvements to the the orginal MP. The following improvements are made:
- Optimization of naming conventions inside the MP
- Instance Group Type changed from ComputerGroup to InstanceGroup
- New Dependancy rollup monitor added to the Instance Group
SCOM 2012: Adding Health States to a State View
StandardLast week I received a question about the possibility to add the health state of services to a state view inside SCOM. This can be done if the service has its own class, if this is not the case the health state cannot be selected on a state view. So for each service a separate class, discovery and monitor need to be created. In this blog I will guide you through that process.
OpsLogix VMware Management Pack and Dashboarding capabilities
StandardLast week I had the chance to test the OpsLogix VMware Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager. Recently OpsLogix released the RTM version of this management pack. My goal was to look into the dashboarding possibilities of this management pack. Continue reading