Nutanix Monitoring on SCOM or OMS

Comtrade has been around quite some time now delivering custom management packs, in my experience for everything Citrix, F5 now, and Nutanix for SCOM and OMS.

Their profile is accurate in my opinion “The SCOM Extension Specialists”

Comtrade’s Channel Profile states “we natively integrate with System Center Operations Manager, providing a comprehensive monitoring of network (F5) and hyperconverged infrastructure (Nutanix) with insight into Citrix and Microsoft applications.”

Note: These MP’s are not free.  Contact for a trial key and download.

 

If you use Nutanix hosts, this will provide insights on configuration, logs, resource performance, and overloaded clusters/hosts

SCOM MP dashboards don’t look that much different, but provide easy insight into your virtual environment

 

How the solution works

OMS specifically

 

 

OMS Dashboard

 

 

Log Analytics

 

 

OMS Hardware Dashboard

 

 

Cluster Performance

 

 

Host Summary

 

 

 

Additional information

Nutanix Monitoring on OMS by Comtrade https://www.comtradesoftware.com/nutanix-monitoring/comtrade-oms-solution/

Nutanix OMS Solution https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/2017/05/16/announcing-the-general-availability-of-oms-solutions-for-nutanix-by-comtrade-software/

Webinar https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/14061/227057

Datasheet https://www.comtradesoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Comtrade-Software-OMS-Nutanix-Datasheet.pdf

SCOM MP information https://www.comtradesoftware.com/nutanix-monitoring/scom-management-pack/

 

 

Getting Started with OMS – Operations Manager Suite

How do you make sure the business you’re in is productive and making widgets?

 

What does OMS do?

Acronym:  OMS – Operations Manager Suite

IMHO

Answer:  Pretty much anything you can imagine to help provide a single pane of glass into what is happening in your IT environment.

Do you use System Center?

You can tailor OMS to any solution in the Solutions gallery, and you can even request solutions and functionality in the UserVoice website.

 

Ready to dig into OMS, even if you’re not cloud based?

 

OMS has four basic services

 

Learn more about the OMS solutions

Verify OMS managed Computers link

Capacity and Performance (HyperV) link

Service Map link

How to be heard link

 

 

Additional information

OMS Overview Azure Monitor overview

Channel 9 videos https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/OMS-TECH-Fridays
OMS Blog https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msoms/

 

 

Setting up OMS Capacity and Performance

Setting up OMS Capacity and Performance
Setting up OMS Capacity and Performance

 

Update 18 Dec 2023 – Solution retired in 2021 with OMS sunset.  

https://github.com/uglide/azure-content/blob/master/articles/log-analytics/log-analytics-add-solutions.md Repository archived by the owner on Feb 1, 2021. It is now read-only.

 

 

Do you know what your HyperV hosts are doing?

Not a HyperV fan, there’s a VMWare solution also here

 

Documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-capacity

https://github.com/uglide/azure-content/blob/master/articles/log-analytics/log-analytics-capacity.md

 

Capacity dashboard

Capacity and performance preview summary
Capacity and performance preview summary

Details

OMS dashboard
OMS dashboard

 

 

Setting up OMS Capacity and Performance

Already have the dashboard setup?  Perhaps this will help troubleshoot

Do you have network connectivity, or is a proxy required?

 

Troubleshooting dashboard

Firewall https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-proxy-firewall
Windows Agents https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/log-analytics/log-analytics-windows-agents

 

Verify Operations Manager event log on local agent, then filter for error events and/or EventID 4506.  Look for dates/times to see when events started.

Example Event ID 4506 details the Capacity and Performance Solution, citing ‘Microsoft.IntelligencePacks.CapacityPerformance.Collector’.

Operations Manager Event Log, Event ID 4506 examples
Operations Manager Event Log, Event ID 4506 examples

 

Additional options

  1. Search LAW (Log Analytics workspace) logs

https://github.com/uglide/azure-content/blob/master/articles/log-analytics/log-analytics-log-searches.md

OMS Log search screenshot

 

2. Verify no proxy is set up (unless your network requires this)

OMSAgent proxy setting
OMSAgent proxy setting

 

3. 4506’s result from too many workflows sending data from MS to DB’s (OpsMgr and DW).  Additionally, 4506 events can be communication issues from MS to DB server(s).   Lastly, use TLS1.2 configuration as a best practice to enforce encryption from MS to SQL communication.  Beyond encryption, TLS may be a culprit if AlwaysOn or SQL clusters are involved, particularly as the SCOM console connections fail as SDK cannot talk with SQL side.  See Kevin Holman’s blog for additional TLS1.2 information and setup.

TLS blog https://kevinholman.com/2018/05/06/implementing-tls-1-2-enforcement-with-scom/

 

Documentation

Learn article https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/212007/scom-errors-no-data-in-summary-performance-dashboa
TechNet blog https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/10b38121-b0e1-43ec-bf3a-d22ae9ef0220/event-4506-data-was-dropped-due-to-too-much-outstanding-data-in-rule
MS RMSe https://www.system-center.me/opsmgr/event-4506-and-new-root-management-server-rms-management-server-ms/