Management Pack for SCOM features
Management Pack for SCOM provides several features that you can use to monitor your Active Roles environment, including:
Using these features, Management Pack for SCOM can alert you to the following error conditions:
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Administration Service is not responding.
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Active Roles replication failure has occurred.
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Connection to the Active Roles database has been lost.
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Administration Service failed to update a Dynamic Group.
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Administration Service failed to update a Group Family.
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Active Roles Web Interface is unavailable.
Management Pack for SCOM monitoring views
Management Pack for SCOM has monitoring views used to centrally monitor the availability and health of the various Active Roles components. The monitoring views are available in the Monitoring pane of the Operation Manager console, and are as follows:
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Alerts: Displays the alerts on the computers running the Active Roles Administration Service or Web Interface.
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Computers: Shows information about the state of the computers running the Active Roles Administration Service or Web Interface.
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Events: Displays the events on the computers running the Active Roles Administration Service or Web Interface.
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Performance: Shows performance information collected from the computers running the Active Roles Administration Service or Web Interface.
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Service Level Exceptions: Displays the unresolved alerts that have exceeded service levels on the computers running the Active Roles Administration Service or Web Interface.
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Task Status: Shows information indicating task results on the computers running the Active Roles Administration Service or Web Interface.
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Discovery: Contains separate views allowing you to examine the state of the computers running the Web Interface, the Administration Service, or both.
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Services Monitoring: Contains the views allowing you to monitor availability, health and performance of the Administration Service instances in your environment.
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Web Interfaces Monitoring: Contains the views allowing you to monitor availability and health of the Web Interface instances in your environment.
Getting started with Management Pack for SCOM
Install Management Pack for SCOM by importing the ActiveRoles.SCOM.MP.xml file into System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). You can install this Management Pack on the following SCOM versions:
Monitoring Active Roles Administration Service with Management Pack for SCOM
This section describes the processing rules that Management Pack for SCOM uses to monitor the availability and health of the Active Roles Administration Service. These include the following:
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General response
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Replication monitoring
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Monitoring of connection to configuration database
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Monitoring of Dynamic Group-related operations
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Monitoring of Group Family-related operations
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Internal error
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Critical error on startup
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License system failure
Monitoring of general response and replication is performed via custom, script-based processing rules. Those rules run on a scheduled basis, analyzing information returned by the scripts and raising an appropriate event if an error is detected. The schedule is stored as part of rule configuration data, and can be adjusted by managing rule properties in the Operations Manager console.