Plugin Development for Microsoft System Center

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Case study: Custom Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM

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Requirements

Develop Custom Management Pack that works with the following versions of Microsoft® SCOM2012-SP1 servers/managers:

• Installing the management pack probe agent on to a ScaleArc machine would be one click operation from the SCOM console.

• Discovering and monitoring ScaleArc servers and statistics counters for performance and availability

Integration with Microsoft System Center for health and statistics monitoring of ScaleArc instances within user defined clusters.

Challenge

About Client

ScaleArc is the database traffic management software appliance that improves the performance and availability of mission-critical SQL applications using its patented technology that abstracts database servers to provide instant horizontal scaling and connection management.

SCOM Layout: We built central management server with the custom management pack. The server reads and writes meta-data to the operational database hosted on the SCOM server. It also connects with the ScaleArc servers for monitoring ScaleArc specific counters. Counters are categorized by context i.e. Systems context, Cluster context, DB-context etc.

Project Synopsis


Solution - Architecture

Benefits

Single point management of multiple ScaleArc servers.

Easy adoption by datacenter administrators already familiar with SCOM-console operations

Better realization of ROI due to increased navigational efficiencies using alerts and notifications.

C#, .NET, SQL Server, SSRS, REST, PHP

Technology

Solution

SCOM management pack discovers, identifies and monitors multiple ScaleArc servers in the network.

The response and aggregated counters returned from the ScaleArc service is displayed to the user on SCOM UI.

Linux specific counters as well as Cluster specific counters are fetched through the agent and displayed on the SCOM UI.

Rules are configured on SCOM server, which can generate alerts to be displayed on the SCOM console.


Solution: SCOM agent and SCOM Handler

SCOM Handler

SCOM agent handles the communication with SCOM Operation Manager. SCOM Handler (Middleware) facilitates SCOM agent’s direct interface with ScaleArc.


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Plugin Development for Microsoft System Center

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