Operational monitoring tools including System Center, Azure Monitor
In Azure Portal
Verify the Application exists ( Azure tenant shows as SCOM O365MP )
NOTE In the right hand pane the Office 365 Management API’s has Application Permissions, and cannot be selected
Click Back to the Settings window
Click on Owners
NOTE NO owners show in this view
Click Add +
In the Add owner window, type the ID
Hit Select to add the user account (This example is the SCOM Service account)
Have user test
Yes this can leave you stumped, and wondering “why?”
This can be many parts, so choose carefully
Verify SCOM ID used in o365 subscription in Azure portal
Create a new subscription in SCOM to use the auto credentials option
Office 365 SCOM Run As Account
In the SCOM console
Click on Monitoring Tab
Click on the O365 dashboard
Look at the health state
Error showed ‘endpoint not found’
Working with Azure Admin, we found the SCOM O365MP application did NOT have a service account assigned.
Verify ‘run as’ ID (originally employee ID, not service account )
Remote Desktop to SCOM MS Server
Verify if the ‘run as’ ID has a valid password
Look in the Operations Manager Event Log for Event ID 7000
Click on Find
Type in the user’s ID from the ‘run as’ account in SCOM
If no entries found, then ID is successfully authenticating against the domain
If errors found, correct ID/Password in SCOM Console
In the SCOM console
Click on Administration
Click on the O365 Wizard
Highlight the subscription
Choose Edit Subscription
Test ID (tested the Service Account)
With the radio button selected at ‘Use auto-created Azure Service Principal’
NOTE Name here is for SCOM purposes and does not have to match Azure Portal Application Name
Click Next
SCOM UI will prompt for Azure login
Enter ID and password
Click Sign in to authenticate
If error is ‘Authentication Fails’, contact your Azure Administrator for assistance
References
Verify SCOM ID used in o365 subscription in Azure portal
Create a new subscription in SCOM to use the auto credentials option
Building on Kevin Holman’s MP Fragment Library are additional Uncommon Custom MP Fragments
This is the SCOM Management Pack Fragment Library which includes VSAE Fragments you can use to make SCOM management packs quickly and easily.
V1.0 has two Event Monitors with two state, two or three criteria monitors
Assumptions
Visual Studio, and the VSAE Fragments are installed
Visual Studio has a powerful plugin called VSAE (Visual Studio Authoring Extensions)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30169
If you aren’t familar with MP fragments for authoring, see instructions at: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kevinholman/2016/06/04/authoring-management-packs-the-fast-and-easy-way-using-visual-studio/
Background
A Management Pack fragment is simply a bit of XML, that contains all the “working parts” for a specific workflow….
Several authors have written about the power of fragments since VSAE launched, but the biggest gap I saw can be broken up into two major issues:
•Nobody provided a good “library” of workable MP fragments
•Nobody came up with a VERY simple method to reuse fragments quickly and easily
If you can do a FIND and REPLACE in notepad, you can use this.
Kevin Holman’s MP Fragments here
Gallery download for the uncommon MP fragments https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Uncommon-Custom-MP-c5a12a86
I’ve also been asked what versions of SQL work with System Center, so here’s references to see what the latest supported SQL version and patch.
2012R2 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn281933.aspx
Many times, the question comes up for Microsoft sizing guidelines for Operations Manager/SCOM. The Sizing Calculator XLS is a great resource to use to help answer some of the storage and SQL DB questions as it relates to the various features you enable in your environment.
The sizing calculator takes features beyond windows agents to help size SQL and storage needs, as well as management servers.
The SCOM Sizing Calculator XLS from TechNet helps determine capacity and storage needs for 2012 and 2016. Here is the 2016 System Center SQL matrix
# of Unix Servers
Network monitoring
Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
URL monitoring (transactional and availability)
DB Data retention requirements