Hello everyone. My name is Aakash and I work as a product manager at Microsoft.
In this video, you will learn about the different capabilities and features available within
the preview version of Azure Monitor SCOM managed instance
Features such as reporting, patching and scaling. Let's jump into it.
Over here, we see the overview page of an existing SCOM managed instance called ContosoMI.
And now let's talk about the capabilities that are available within SCOM managed instance.
Let's navigate around. So, if I click on resources, you will see from tutorials. When you click on SCOM infrastructure
You can see what are the current virtual machine scale set which is powering the SCOM managed instance
When you click on monitoring,
you can see how the underlying resources are performing. You can see there was CPU usage, memory usage,
the disk usage and the network.
Now, let's jump into scaling.
Do you remember when you're using SCOM on-premise, you needed to go ahead and add multiple SCOM management servers
or you needed to get approval to remove SCOM management servers and that would take a really long time?
Over here, it is very simple.
When you create a preview version of SCOM MI, by default there is one SCOM management server
created in the instance and it can monitor up to 1000 endpoints.
And now what if I want to monitor more than 1000 endpoints? Let's say I want to monitor 2500 endpoints. So, I key in 2500 endpoints.
and automatically, it says the recommended management servers is 3.
So, when I click on save, it's going to add two more servers in my instance.
Let's say, I don't want two more. I want, four more servers, because I'm hoping that I will add more endpoints
in a couple of days. So, I can manually change that
to 5 and I can click on save. When I go and click on save, as I mentioned, it can scale out
to 4 more servers and each of the servers will be powered with the DS3V2 compute template.
If you've already scaled up and you want to scale down (scale in),
you can reduce the agent and that can automatically suggest or
You can manually change the number over here.
and if you are going against the recommendations, it's going to throw a warning, although it will allow you
to change the scaling parameters as per your business needs. Lastly, the scaling activity takes anywhere between 10 to 30 minutes
and your SCOM infrastructure would be completely ready to be used after that span.
Let's switch to patching. In patching, there used to be the concept of update rollups that were made available every six months to one year,
and then you had to go through a lot of testing, Q&A and then patch it in production. Over here it's pretty straightforward.
You just need to click on patching here and then see if there are any new updates available. Just by clicking update instance
you can patch the operating system of the management servers and the SCOM patches on the management servers.
Now let's go to reporting. The operations console can display dashboards which were previously available in the management packs.
The operations console is going nowhere in the preview version of SCOM MI, however, the reporting is transitioned to Power BI.
which gives you more rich visualizations and more intuitive controls on the report.
To start the power BI, you need to make sure that the public endpoints are enabled on the SQL database and you can do that seamlessly
from the SCOM MI portal. In this case, my existing SQL database do not have public endpoints enabled.
So, I'm going to click on manage endpoints and this will take me to the SQL instance
Then you can click on enable. Once that is done, you save it.
That's it. Endpoints are enabled.
So, you close this notification and close the pop-up bar and you see that the database endpoint is enabled.
and you can reuse them. You can copy this information in a notepad because we will need this information
when we install power BI and configure it for the first time.
So how do I configure? I install the SCOM Power BI dashboard on powerbi.com. So let me click on this.
This will take me to the app that Microsoft has published for you which will have in-built reports, and all you have to do is configure
the underlying data connections.
I click on Get it now. It's going to do a quick validation.
Now that the validation is done, you can click on Get it now. So, this is going to install the power BI in your workspace,
the power BI workspace. Once that is installed, you will have all the reports ready.
And now you see the app is updated and I click on Go to app.
This will take me to the SCOM managed instance dashboard which will have 3-4 reports created by default.
In the first report, you can see Alert Summary. In the second report, you can see management pack summary.
the SCOM managed instance health and check the status of all the monitors by MP.
As I mentioned, you click on Connect to data. You paste the information from the UI of SCOM which is the database name and the URL.
Once pasted, you authenticate using OAuth.
Please make sure the account that is getting authenticated is added as a database reader on the data warehouse database.
This is part of the prerequisites while setting up power BI.
Once it is set up you will see the reports and refresh the data. Additionally, you can create many more
custom reports based on your business needs using the power BI desktop.
Thank you very much.