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SCOM 2012R2 - Monitoring Large List of Services in a Application Stack

saiyad rahim 21 Reputation points
2020-09-12T02:29:26.713+00:00

Hi all,

I have just received a request to monitor "Services" for an Application just has gone Live.
The Application consists of 8 servers only but there are 55 Services to be monitored.

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My process here would be to create a Group for each individual Server.
So I will end up with 8 Groups created for this Application/Services.
When I start creating the Monitors for the "Services", I can target them to the individual Server Group where the Services are running in.

Is this correct or is there a better way of approaching this?

Or should I just create 1 Group and dump all the Servers for this Application in this Group and as I create the monitors for the Services, i just Target this one Group for all the Services for this App.
Thinking that this might increase the workload on the Agents where a particular service does not run.

Any help will be appreciated.

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  1. CyrAz 5,181 Reputation points
    2020-09-13T13:37:34.113+00:00

    The best approach here would be to create a dedicated class and discovery based on the Windows.LocalApplication class for these "Logis" servers, and then the same thing but based on Windows.ApplicationComponent class for the services, but that requires some authoring knowledge.

    If you want to give it a try, you'll find code examples in Kevin Holman's VSAE fragments library : https://github.com/thekevinholman/FragmentLibrary

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  2. Crystal-MSFT 44,411 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2020-09-14T01:57:51.233+00:00

    @saiyad rahim , When we create rule or monitor in SCOM, generally class will be used as the target. For our situation, maybe we can try to discover instances of a SCOM class based on computer name. Kevin has written a blog that can help. We can read it:
    https://kevinholman.com/2019/07/25/how-to-discover-instances-of-a-scom-class-based-on-computer-name/
    Note: Non-microsoft link, just for the reference.

    Hope it can help.

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  3. saiyad rahim 21 Reputation points
    2020-09-14T21:31:20.89+00:00

    Hi,

    For the uninitiated in the world of MP Authoring (Like myself), MP authoring seems like a welcome challenge but very time consuming since i will be fumbling about not sure where I am headed, unless i have someone to bounce questions off in realtime.

    Looking at both the Blogs by Kevin - i have a dumb question...after the Discovery (of the Servers) occurs...how do I use this to get to the End Game of setting up my Service Monitors.
    I looked at the XML but I might have missed the part where I define the Service Names that are to be monitored.