Utilizing and Developing Dashboards in Operations Manager 2012 SP1Satya Vel; Eugene BykovMicrosoft

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What will we cover today?

• Introduction to OpsMgr 2012 SP1 Dashboarding capabilities• Demonstrate how easy it is to create dashboards using the IT

Pro Dashboard Authoring UI• Walkthrough creating a sample script based dashboard using

a PowerShell data provider and standard grid and chart controls

Follow along

Dashboard Samples shown today can be found athttp://tinyurl.com/cook5ke

FeedbackWhat we heard in (2007 R2)• I need a better way to

author views • I need an easier way to

monitor Operations Manager health• I need to publish views

outside of the console• It’s hard to install the

Service Level Dashboard

What we delivered (2012)• New IT Pro dashboard

creation using Widgets• Management Group

health dashboard for agent and infrastructure health• SharePoint and Visio

integration• Created using a

Dashboard Template option

Out of the box dashboardsSatya Vel

Dashboard Feedback

What we are hearing (Today)• IT Pro Dashboards are not Portable between MGs• Extend dashboard infrastructure to help customers\

partners build custom dashboards and widgets• Provide samples and documentation

Dashboard TerminologyDashboard Host

Dashboard Template

Widget

Data Provider

UI Control

Widget

Data Provider

UI Control

Widget

Example Widget

Example

Dashboard Authoring Options

• My boss wants to see the SLAs for my applications in my next meeting

• I need to provide visibility to the health of the Fabric (Network, Storage, Compute) to my team

• I want to tweak my SQL Server dashboard to show active alerts for my servers

• I need to include or exclude specific metrics in a dashboard

• I want to be able to select multiple objects and compare certain KPI’s on the fly

• Build a custom data provider to show a custom metric that I am collecting

• Build an Auxiliary navigation dashboard for multiple objects selected

Management Pack Based

• Build my own custom widgets using C#

• I need the ability to show memory utilization in a “Ferrari” themed speedometer chart

IT Pro Dashboard Authoring 1

Script Dashboard Authoring 2

Custom Dashboard Authoring 3

Creating Dashboards using the IT Pro Authoring ExperienceSatya Vel

• Recommended way of extending dashboards

• Full capabilities of dashboard infrastructure are available• Create dashboard in monitoring tree• Create drill down dashboard• Define dashboard behavior• Define widget configuration and/or personalization• Get data from various sources using PowerShell• Register IT Pro reusable widget or dashboard

Script Dashboard Authoring

Components• Both UI Control and

Data Provider in Widget are implemented as Components.

• Component could either have code implementation or composed from other components.

• Composed components are platform independent.

MANAGEMENT PACK

CODE

Dashboard CompositionDashboard

Target (IN)

Query

DB EngineID (IN)OutputColleciton (OUT)

ChartTarget (IN)

Grid

Dataset (IN)Selection (OUT)

Creating a PowerShell Data Provider and Populating a Chart ControlEugene Bykov

SQL Server 2012 Dashboard(Leveraging the dashboard extensibility)Satya Vel

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OpsMgr Console tips and best practices

1.Use the OpsMgr Sizing Helper Tool• Covers overall OpsMgr best practices• Virtualization Guidance, High Availability and Disaster Recovery• Link: http://

blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/04/02/operations-manager-2012-sizing-helper-tool.aspx

2. Install Update Rollup 2• “Object by Performance Widget” display path(hostname) issue fixed in UR2

3. Do NOT install the Web Console Server and SharePoint on the same server

• SharePoint install will override the OpsMgr WebConsole IIS configuration settings

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