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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Happy New Year (2016)
From Henk's blog (and sponsors) we wish you all a Happy New Year! Thanks for visiting my blog, and hope you liked all information last year about Microsoft System Center and Microsoft Intune.
Expect more to come in 2016 again!
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Expect more to come in 2016 again!
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Savision Live Maps Unity for System Center Operations Manager
SCOM alerts
Let's have a look at a common situation you find many times at customer sites: when using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), you know that alerts can be overwhelming. When multiple management packs are imported for more functionality and many agents are enrolled on servers with different applications and roles installed on them, you must configure Operations Manager to benefit from it! Otherwise there can be so many SCOM alerts and e-mail messages a day, that monitoring isn't effective anymore. I did see black television screens (monitoring screens turned off) and IT admins deleting all alerts each day (doing monitoring from that point), often. You can find an in-depth article about SCOM alert storms here.
On the other hand, no graphical Service dashboard is available for a perfect monitoring overview by design. The default built-in SCOM dashboards are using a column or grid layout, with performance, state, alert, and details widgets. They’re good for a basic overview, but nothing more than that. Dashboards can be created in Microsoft Visio, as well as you may know. By using SharePoint Extensions for System Center 2012, they can be connected with the Operations Manager environment. The problem is you need to create those dashboards yourself and have SharePoint Enterprise edition installed. It’s not so easy and user-friendly to create dashboards that way.
Let's introduce Savision Live Maps Unity here. With 700 organizations worldwide using Live Maps Unity, it's the business service management solution you want!
Savision’s SCOM dashboards
With Live Maps Unity, which is used for both monitoring service health and performance, this perfect monitoring overview (as mentioned before) is available! It can be used for a graphical Service dashboard instead, but it's much more than that. Savision's Live Maps Unity speaks the language of the business by focusing on service delivery. It includes unlimited HTML5-based SCOM dashboards for monitoring both service health and performance. With Savision’s SCOM dashboards (based on HTML5-code, which is fast and lightweight), there is no need to look at alerts all day. Just focus on the information Live Maps Unity sends to you.
There won't be many e-mail messages anymore as well. This because Live Maps Unity notifies only when necessary, giving IT admins the time needed to research and solve issues instead of wasting time on notifications. With the Service dashboard in-place, IT admins can use Operations Manager proactive again instead of reactively. The Service dashboard gives you all information needed on a single screen. It’s generated automatically, based on applications found in your environment and gives a total overview of business-critical services, like Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory and more.
No need to design all those dashboards yourself. Live Maps Unity has the capability to examine your entire IT infrastructure. Additional dashboards can be created with a few clicks by using the built-in drag-and-drop interface. This is really different than using Microsoft Visio, mentioned before. This data is connected with real components and applications by default. These dashboards can be shown from anywhere on any device! This can be done on a mobile device (tablet or smartphone) or desktop if you prefer. This isn’t possible with the default SCOM solution; you have to use another solution for this.
Business Service Management Solution
With Live Maps Unity, you have that solution. The product can be used to monitor entire IT infrastructures, with features like: performance monitoring, .NET application discovery, easy-to-build dashboards, and a Services dashboard. It offers a lightweight web console with support for all major browsers; so no need to have a physical console installed. It offers interactive geographical maps and native System Center integration. It allows quick visualizations of the IT environment through SCOM dashboards. It has everything inside for monitoring service health and performance. It’s the Business Service Management Solution that makes SCOM the perfect monitoring solution!
As a result: With SCOM and Savision’s Live Maps Unity, you have best of both worlds and true power in SCOM finally. No need to focus on alerts anymore, because it helps to deal with the root cause of notifications. Just focus on alerts which really need your time and attention to manage the healthiest environment possible.
Included are some web links to find more information on the product and even more functionality as well. There are some videos and datasheets available too.
Happy monitoringJ!
(Sponsor post)
Let's have a look at a common situation you find many times at customer sites: when using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), you know that alerts can be overwhelming. When multiple management packs are imported for more functionality and many agents are enrolled on servers with different applications and roles installed on them, you must configure Operations Manager to benefit from it! Otherwise there can be so many SCOM alerts and e-mail messages a day, that monitoring isn't effective anymore. I did see black television screens (monitoring screens turned off) and IT admins deleting all alerts each day (doing monitoring from that point), often. You can find an in-depth article about SCOM alert storms here.
On the other hand, no graphical Service dashboard is available for a perfect monitoring overview by design. The default built-in SCOM dashboards are using a column or grid layout, with performance, state, alert, and details widgets. They’re good for a basic overview, but nothing more than that. Dashboards can be created in Microsoft Visio, as well as you may know. By using SharePoint Extensions for System Center 2012, they can be connected with the Operations Manager environment. The problem is you need to create those dashboards yourself and have SharePoint Enterprise edition installed. It’s not so easy and user-friendly to create dashboards that way.
Let's introduce Savision Live Maps Unity here. With 700 organizations worldwide using Live Maps Unity, it's the business service management solution you want!
Savision’s SCOM dashboards
With Live Maps Unity, which is used for both monitoring service health and performance, this perfect monitoring overview (as mentioned before) is available! It can be used for a graphical Service dashboard instead, but it's much more than that. Savision's Live Maps Unity speaks the language of the business by focusing on service delivery. It includes unlimited HTML5-based SCOM dashboards for monitoring both service health and performance. With Savision’s SCOM dashboards (based on HTML5-code, which is fast and lightweight), there is no need to look at alerts all day. Just focus on the information Live Maps Unity sends to you.
There won't be many e-mail messages anymore as well. This because Live Maps Unity notifies only when necessary, giving IT admins the time needed to research and solve issues instead of wasting time on notifications. With the Service dashboard in-place, IT admins can use Operations Manager proactive again instead of reactively. The Service dashboard gives you all information needed on a single screen. It’s generated automatically, based on applications found in your environment and gives a total overview of business-critical services, like Exchange, SharePoint, Active Directory and more.
No need to design all those dashboards yourself. Live Maps Unity has the capability to examine your entire IT infrastructure. Additional dashboards can be created with a few clicks by using the built-in drag-and-drop interface. This is really different than using Microsoft Visio, mentioned before. This data is connected with real components and applications by default. These dashboards can be shown from anywhere on any device! This can be done on a mobile device (tablet or smartphone) or desktop if you prefer. This isn’t possible with the default SCOM solution; you have to use another solution for this.
Business Service Management Solution
With Live Maps Unity, you have that solution. The product can be used to monitor entire IT infrastructures, with features like: performance monitoring, .NET application discovery, easy-to-build dashboards, and a Services dashboard. It offers a lightweight web console with support for all major browsers; so no need to have a physical console installed. It offers interactive geographical maps and native System Center integration. It allows quick visualizations of the IT environment through SCOM dashboards. It has everything inside for monitoring service health and performance. It’s the Business Service Management Solution that makes SCOM the perfect monitoring solution!
As a result: With SCOM and Savision’s Live Maps Unity, you have best of both worlds and true power in SCOM finally. No need to focus on alerts anymore, because it helps to deal with the root cause of notifications. Just focus on alerts which really need your time and attention to manage the healthiest environment possible.
Included are some web links to find more information on the product and even more functionality as well. There are some videos and datasheets available too.
Happy monitoringJ!
(Sponsor post)
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Savision has been named National Champion of the Netherlands
Sponsor post
Savision has been named National Champion of the Netherlands and they are competing for Public National Champion. In order to obtain this title and keep running in the competition, they need to obtain as many votes as possible from the public. It would be great if you could help Savision with that! The voting consists of entering your email on their video page, then you receive an email through which you must confirm your vote. Thanks for your help!
Video page: European Business Awards
Savision has been named National Champion of the Netherlands and they are competing for Public National Champion. In order to obtain this title and keep running in the competition, they need to obtain as many votes as possible from the public. It would be great if you could help Savision with that! The voting consists of entering your email on their video page, then you receive an email through which you must confirm your vote. Thanks for your help!
Video page: European Business Awards
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Happy New Year (2015)
From Henk's blog (and sponsors) we wish you all a Happy New Year! Thanks for visiting my blog, and hope you liked all information last year about Microsoft System Center and Microsoft Intune.
Expect more to come in 2015 again!
#HappyHolidays
Expect more to come in 2015 again!
#HappyHolidays
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Webinar: Maximize the ROI of your private cloud
Sponsor post
This upcoming week, you can join Savision’s complimentary webinars on the cloud. Find out how you can minimize unplanned downtime and know when cloud resources are going to be exhausted long before it happens. Get familiar with Savision’s Cloud Capacity Management solution- Cloud Reporter- and Savision’s free tuning and optimization solution- Cloud Advisor. They both featured a new release during TechEd EU. The newest release of both solutions adds VMware support. Register for the webinar now. The webinar will be hosted by Savision’s VP of R&D, Steven Dwyer.
Here are the links to use for each webinar:
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2014 11:00 am EDT/ 17:00 pm CEST http://bit.ly/1pN01Yr
Thursday, Nov 20, 2014 9:30 am EDT/ 15:30 pm CEST
http://bit.ly/1zhkkx5
The webinar is specially designed to highlight the new features and walk you through the many benefits of using Cloud Reporter & Cloud Advisor to monitor your cloud!
This upcoming week, you can join Savision’s complimentary webinars on the cloud. Find out how you can minimize unplanned downtime and know when cloud resources are going to be exhausted long before it happens. Get familiar with Savision’s Cloud Capacity Management solution- Cloud Reporter- and Savision’s free tuning and optimization solution- Cloud Advisor. They both featured a new release during TechEd EU. The newest release of both solutions adds VMware support. Register for the webinar now. The webinar will be hosted by Savision’s VP of R&D, Steven Dwyer.
Here are the links to use for each webinar:
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2014 11:00 am EDT/ 17:00 pm CEST http://bit.ly/1pN01Yr
Thursday, Nov 20, 2014 9:30 am EDT/ 15:30 pm CEST
http://bit.ly/1zhkkx5
The webinar is specially designed to highlight the new features and walk you through the many benefits of using Cloud Reporter & Cloud Advisor to monitor your cloud!
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
New features are coming on Live Maps, Cloud Reporter and Cloud Advisor
Sponsor post
I have become familiar with Savision because of Live Maps. Live Maps Unity is a great Business Service Management solution that monitors service health performance and with it you can create dynamic and graphical dashboards easily. This is done in combination with OpsMgr, which I implement for different customers.
Within Live Maps you can create dashboards with drag-and-drop functionality at once. It's like Microsoft Visio, but then using different build-in templates and live objects!
End of this month, during MS TechEd in Barcelona, Savision will bring new releases and updates on Live Maps, but also on Cloud Reporter and Cloud Advisor. Let's have a look at the changes:
-Live Maps Unity, will have new features such as Performance Data, Out-of-box Services and .Net Application Discovery. Savision have been working very hard during this year to move away from being just an OpsMgr add-on, and only dashboards and maps, so with their Live Maps Unity release, they have become instead a Business Service Management solution.
-Cloud Reporter is a robust capacity planning solution for private clouds based on Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, which will have the same wisdom and analysis to VMware that is offered for Hyper-V.
-Cloud Advisor integrates natively into the Virtual Machine Manager and vSphere console, analyzes your Hyper-V or VMware environment for problems, and then provides specific and detailed recommendations to tune VM's and hosts for better performance and availability.
To give you a glimpse of upcoming features in Live Maps Unity, have a look at these posts already:
-Performance Data
-Out-of-Box Services
-Dynamically Updating Services
Within the posts you can see that the following features are coming:
-Performance information with HTML5 support for performance data
-Out-of-the-box templates for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft SharePoint (which looks great to me!)
-Cloud Reporter and Cloud Advisor can be used for both Microsoft’s Hyper-V as VMware vSphere in the next release.
Update: There are multiple webinars to come for new Q4 2014 Releases. Don't miss them!
-Live Maps Unity Webinar by Dennis Rietvink, co-founder and VP of Product Management of Savision
US: Monday, November 10, 2014 11:00 am EDT/ 17:00 pm CEST
EU: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 9:00 am EDT/ 15:30 pm CEST
-Cloud Reporter & Cloud Advisor Webinar by Steven Dwyer, VP of R&D of Savision
US: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:00 am EDT/ 17:00 pm CEST
EU: Thursday, November 20, 2014 9:30 am EDT/ 15:30 pm CEST
I have become familiar with Savision because of Live Maps. Live Maps Unity is a great Business Service Management solution that monitors service health performance and with it you can create dynamic and graphical dashboards easily. This is done in combination with OpsMgr, which I implement for different customers.
Within Live Maps you can create dashboards with drag-and-drop functionality at once. It's like Microsoft Visio, but then using different build-in templates and live objects!
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| Caption from Live Maps Unity |
End of this month, during MS TechEd in Barcelona, Savision will bring new releases and updates on Live Maps, but also on Cloud Reporter and Cloud Advisor. Let's have a look at the changes:
-Live Maps Unity, will have new features such as Performance Data, Out-of-box Services and .Net Application Discovery. Savision have been working very hard during this year to move away from being just an OpsMgr add-on, and only dashboards and maps, so with their Live Maps Unity release, they have become instead a Business Service Management solution.
-Cloud Reporter is a robust capacity planning solution for private clouds based on Microsoft’s Hyper-V and VMware vSphere, which will have the same wisdom and analysis to VMware that is offered for Hyper-V.
-Cloud Advisor integrates natively into the Virtual Machine Manager and vSphere console, analyzes your Hyper-V or VMware environment for problems, and then provides specific and detailed recommendations to tune VM's and hosts for better performance and availability.
To give you a glimpse of upcoming features in Live Maps Unity, have a look at these posts already:
-Performance Data
-Out-of-Box Services
-Dynamically Updating Services
Within the posts you can see that the following features are coming:
-Performance information with HTML5 support for performance data
-Out-of-the-box templates for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft SharePoint (which looks great to me!)
-Cloud Reporter and Cloud Advisor can be used for both Microsoft’s Hyper-V as VMware vSphere in the next release.
Update: There are multiple webinars to come for new Q4 2014 Releases. Don't miss them!
-Live Maps Unity Webinar by Dennis Rietvink, co-founder and VP of Product Management of Savision
US: Monday, November 10, 2014 11:00 am EDT/ 17:00 pm CEST
EU: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 9:00 am EDT/ 15:30 pm CEST
-Cloud Reporter & Cloud Advisor Webinar by Steven Dwyer, VP of R&D of Savision
US: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 11:00 am EDT/ 17:00 pm CEST
EU: Thursday, November 20, 2014 9:30 am EDT/ 15:30 pm CEST
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Creating multiple dashboards in OpsMgr 2012 R2
As mentioned before I did a Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2012 R2 installation already. One of the great items in OpsMgr (for myself) is creating dashboards. In OpsMgr dashboards can be created multiple ways. Some can be created in OpsMgr by default, some can be created with additional software needed. It's not my point to describe how to build them, but to point you in the right direction which is possible. Here we go!
Dashboards can be created mutiple ways, following is possible:
-Default dashboards (which can also be a Service Level Dashboard or Summary Dashboard)
-Microsoft Visio dashboards (which is published in SharePoint)
-Savision Live Maps (many possibilities, but additional licenses needed)
-Distributed Applications (chain monitoring of .NET applications)
Default dashboards are created with a layout and widgets. Widgets are powerful objects which can be used many ways. First decide how to build the framework, you can choose between:
-Column Layout (enables up to 5 vertical columns to displayed in a row)
-Grid Layout (allows layouts of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 9 cells)
-Service Level Dashboard (shows the data for a pre-configured SLA)
-Summary Dashboard (adds 3 default widgets in a 3-cell configuration)
Widgets can be choosen from the following list:
-Objects by Performance Widget (sort of Top 10 dashboard)
-Object SLA Widget (group that has an SLA applied to it)
-Performance Widget (creates a performance graph)
-State Widget (can be based on multiple configurations)
-SLA Widget (shows the data for a pre-configured SLA)
-SLA Configuration (Service Level tracking)
-Alert Widget (allows the display of alerts)
-Details Widget (shows the details of selected alerts)
-Instance Details Widget (show details of a selected group or instance)
-SLA Configuration Note (monitor Service Level Objectives)
Microsoft Visio dashboards are created with SharePoint 2010 using Microsoft Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Extensions for System Center 2012. Just make sure you have SharePoint 2010 Enterprise edition installed, because only this edition has the Visio Web Service available. Within Visio a dashboard can be created and used in SharePoint with Extensions. That way a graphical dasboard can be created with OpsMgr Health Explorer access on all items. Have a look here for installation: http://blog.scomfaq.ch/2013/07/10/scom-2012-sp1-publish-visio-dashboard-in-sharepoint-2010-walkthrough/
Live Maps for System Center is the enterprise visualization solution for Microsoft System Center. Their interactive dashboards, maps and diagrams add business context to every alert and incident, making sure your limited resources can focus on the things that really matter to your business. Live Maps is ready for R2! The upcoming release of Live Maps is compatible with System Center 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1. The release will be available on October 18. No SharePoint 2010 or Visio 2010 are needed with Live Maps. Just install the product and get started. All objects in OpsMgr will be automatically available for dashboard creation.
A Distributed Application in OpsMgr is an application that is comprised of multiple objects. These objects may be defined by different management packs and may be managed on the same agent or on different agents. The purpose of the distributed application is to provide an overall health for an application that is comprised of different objects. Distributed applications do not provide any additional monitoring for the objects in an application. Instead, they include objects that are already being monitored. The value of the distributed application is to provide a relationship between the health of objects that are part of a single application. You can create distributed applications using the Distributed Applications Designer in the Operations console.
A few examples on this:
They look just great isn't it? Possibilities are many on this point.
Want to know more? Just leave a comment on this post.
Dashboards can be created mutiple ways, following is possible:
-Default dashboards (which can also be a Service Level Dashboard or Summary Dashboard)
-Microsoft Visio dashboards (which is published in SharePoint)
-Savision Live Maps (many possibilities, but additional licenses needed)
-Distributed Applications (chain monitoring of .NET applications)
Default dashboards are created with a layout and widgets. Widgets are powerful objects which can be used many ways. First decide how to build the framework, you can choose between:
-Column Layout (enables up to 5 vertical columns to displayed in a row)
-Grid Layout (allows layouts of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or 9 cells)
-Service Level Dashboard (shows the data for a pre-configured SLA)
-Summary Dashboard (adds 3 default widgets in a 3-cell configuration)
Widgets can be choosen from the following list:
-Objects by Performance Widget (sort of Top 10 dashboard)
-Object SLA Widget (group that has an SLA applied to it)
-Performance Widget (creates a performance graph)
-State Widget (can be based on multiple configurations)
-SLA Widget (shows the data for a pre-configured SLA)
-SLA Configuration (Service Level tracking)
-Alert Widget (allows the display of alerts)
-Details Widget (shows the details of selected alerts)
-Instance Details Widget (show details of a selected group or instance)
-SLA Configuration Note (monitor Service Level Objectives)
Microsoft Visio dashboards are created with SharePoint 2010 using Microsoft Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Extensions for System Center 2012. Just make sure you have SharePoint 2010 Enterprise edition installed, because only this edition has the Visio Web Service available. Within Visio a dashboard can be created and used in SharePoint with Extensions. That way a graphical dasboard can be created with OpsMgr Health Explorer access on all items. Have a look here for installation: http://blog.scomfaq.ch/2013/07/10/scom-2012-sp1-publish-visio-dashboard-in-sharepoint-2010-walkthrough/
Live Maps for System Center is the enterprise visualization solution for Microsoft System Center. Their interactive dashboards, maps and diagrams add business context to every alert and incident, making sure your limited resources can focus on the things that really matter to your business. Live Maps is ready for R2! The upcoming release of Live Maps is compatible with System Center 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1. The release will be available on October 18. No SharePoint 2010 or Visio 2010 are needed with Live Maps. Just install the product and get started. All objects in OpsMgr will be automatically available for dashboard creation.
A Distributed Application in OpsMgr is an application that is comprised of multiple objects. These objects may be defined by different management packs and may be managed on the same agent or on different agents. The purpose of the distributed application is to provide an overall health for an application that is comprised of different objects. Distributed applications do not provide any additional monitoring for the objects in an application. Instead, they include objects that are already being monitored. The value of the distributed application is to provide a relationship between the health of objects that are part of a single application. You can create distributed applications using the Distributed Applications Designer in the Operations console.
A few examples on this:
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| Summary Dashboard in SharePoint 2010 |
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| A Distributed .NET Application |
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| MAP View with Active Locations |
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| Integration with Microsoft Visio |
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| Performance Widget - Grid Layout |
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| Service Level Dashboard |
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| Network Monitoring |
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| SLA Widget - Grid Layout |
Want to know more? Just leave a comment on this post.
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