Here dashboard dashboard <dong>

Come out, come out wherever you are!

Looking at SCOM dashboards in the new Technical Preview had me wondering.

I was totally excited after Ignite for System Center v.Next…

          Start at 16:34 in video – BRK1023 https://myignite.microsoft.com/videos/54778

Found the documents before I found the actual widgets

HTML5 overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/manage-overview-html5-webconsole?view=sc-om-1801

What’s new in 1801 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/what-is-new-1801?view=sc-om-1801

Release Notes https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/release-notes-1801?view=sc-om-1801

What’s new in 1711 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/what-is-new-1711?view=sc-om-1711

Release notes https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/release-notes-tp1711?view=sc-om-1711

We have lots of widgets to choose from

Unfortunately, the SQL MP visualizations are not yet HTML5 🙁

Web Console, well, okay, I can play

Alert Widget

Scope – Setup for a group or class (my example is All Windows Computers group, could be SQL Servers, SharePoint Servers, etc.)

Criteria – Selected Severity = Warning or Critical, changed Alert age to 1 day (default was 7)

Display – No changes made

Select Columns to display – looks like all the console options when you click on ‘Personalize view’

Group by – Last modified was selected

Completion –  Click on Save Widget

Saving widget

Alert Widget

State Widget

Scope – Setup for a group AND class (my example is All Windows Computers group, could be SQL Servers, SharePoint Servers, etc.)

Criteria – Selected Severity = Warning or Critical

Display –

Selected 4 columns  (Health, Display Name, Path, Principal Name )

Group by – Health

Completion – Named widget and added Description

Click on Save Widget

Saved State Widget (NOTE no unhealthy windows computers)

Performance Widget

Scope – Setup for a group AND class (my example is SQL Server Computers, could be All Windows Computers, or SharePoint Servers, etc.)

Metrics – Use filter by keyword

Search string = Memory

Selected = Stolen Server Memory

Criteria – Time Range default is 24 hours

Recommend dropping time to 1-4 hours to display less data

Display –

Left Default

See difference, checkbox is counter intuitive (uncheck gives visual graph)

Completion – Named widget and added Description

Click on Save Widget

Performance Widget (visualizations check box checked, NOTE NO visual)

Performance Widget (visualizations check box UN-checked)

Tile Widget

Simple, can setup for a group or class

Click on Save Widget

Topology Widget

Gotta have a little fun, right!?

Click on Save Widget

Tile and Topology Dashboards

Now let’s continue this further next week!