First published on TECHNET on Apr 11, 2013
Hi, we are excited to announce the preview of the Management Pack for Windows Azure Fabric. This Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of Azure fabric resources that are running on Windows Azure.
You will find the preview Management Pack as well as the draft documentation (MP Guide) on the
Microsoft Download Center
.
Note that this is a completely new Management Pack that does not upgrade the previous Azure Management Pack. Note also that this Management Pack requires System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 or later. This Management Pack is currently not supported in production environments.
The following monitoring scenarios are covered by the Management Pack
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Monitoring scenario
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Description
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Associated rules and monitors
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Role Instance Availability and Status
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This scenario monitors the role
instance health of each role instance as reported by Windows Azure
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Windows Azure Role Instance Status Monitor
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Role Instance Performance
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This scenario monitors the CPU and
Memory utilization of each role instance
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Available Megabytes
of Memory
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Total CPU Utilization
Percentage
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Scale up/down
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This scenario enables you to scale up
or down the number of role instances per role, by using a task
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Change number of role
instances (task on the Role)
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Virtual Machine Availability and Status
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This scenario monitors the role
instance health of each Virtual Machine instance as reported by Windows Azure
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Virtual Machine Status
Monitor
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Storage Availability
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This scenario monitors the availability
of the Storage Account endpoint
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Storage Account
Availability Monitor
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Storage Size
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This scenario monitors the size of the
storage account and optionally alerts if the size of the storage account is too large
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Storage Account Size
Monitor
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Topology Dashboard
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This scenario allows you to see how
your monitored resources are related to each other
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Topology dashboard
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Service Vicinity dashboard
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Certificate health
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This scenario monitors certificate expiration of management and cloud service certificates and alerts if the certificates are about to expire
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Windows Azure
Subscription Certificate Expiration Monitor
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Windows Azure Hosted Service Certificate Expiration Monitor
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Hybrid Application definition and
monitoring
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This scenario allows you to model a
hybrid application using a new Distributed Application template and track availability and capacity of the application using provided dashboards
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Distributed Application template
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Availability dashboard
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Cloud Service capacity dashboard
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Submitting feedback
You can submit feedback by sending mail directly to akep at Microsoft dot com. You can also submit feedback by commenting on this blog post.
We are looking forward to your feedback on this Management Pack.
