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What SCE is, and what it is not
What SCE is, and what it is not
- We're looking to monitor our systems (TFS, Sharepoint, VMM, ... etc) and gather quantitative information, such as utilization and possibly traffic (web hits). Our objective is to show value, and growth of our systems over time. Reports running from an OLAP cube would be awesome....
I've looked into System Center, and System Center Essentials seems to be the closest fit. However, it also appears to be largely targeted at system admins for monitoring (!), configuration, and updates. So far, I've managed to setup a test system that can monitor and gather some useful info, but measuring the page hits / users / IIS stats eludes me. Can SCE do this (that you know of - easily)?
Am I using the wrong tool?
Does anything else exist for gathering and reporting on data?
Thanks!
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mob
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- SCE can do this, you just need to tell SCE where to look. So if you have a way to see this information you can configure SCE to do it. Some times you can use default management packs but sometimes you need to author something on your own.
Anders Bengtsson | Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager | http://www.contoso.se- Marked As Answer byJie-Feng Ren Monday, November 16, 2009 3:38 AM
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- Hi,
For monitorin SCE is like Operations Manager,you can monitor anything, as long as you know where to look. So, how do you see page hits/users/IIS stats today manually?
Anders Bengtsson | Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager | http://www.contoso.se Right now we view page hits from within the Sharepoint usage - it breaks down the hits by user, page, by day/month. The issue is Sharepoint has a rolling queue of usage data. We'd like to see trends farther out, and correlate those to usage (cpu, memory).
This seems like something many other would be doing - which makes me believe I'm missing something (big).
With the current monitoring, I'm assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that SCE would be monitoring IIS/Sharepoint via WMI counters? Is there a 'more integrated' method? Is there extensibility is System Center?
(and sorry in advance for the list of newbie questions..)
Thanks!
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mob- there are web site management packs for monitoring web sites. But look at the machine if you see if there is a performance counters local on the machine that you can look at, then you could build a rule i SCE to collect it, and then use reports and performance views to review it.
Anders Bengtsson | Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager | http://www.contoso.se - unfortunately, the web management packs I've found are focused on performance and uptime. Which I find important, but that does not address the measurement of traffic / growth.
Does a management pack exist that provides details of usage?
If not, perhaps my original questions are more pertainent - is SCE just not focused on this type of information? I ask, as SCE seems to be targeted to system admins - not really at the business / tracking.
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mob - SCE can do this, you just need to tell SCE where to look. So if you have a way to see this information you can configure SCE to do it. Some times you can use default management packs but sometimes you need to author something on your own.
Anders Bengtsson | Microsoft MVP - Operations Manager | http://www.contoso.se- Marked As Answer byJie-Feng Ren Monday, November 16, 2009 3:38 AM
