Today, Thomas Roettinger Senior Program Manager in the Azure Stack Team announced the Technical Preview of the Microsoft Azure Stack Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager. System Center is a datacenter management tool used by many enterprises out there, Operations Manager allows you to monitor your complete datacenter environment based on Management Packs which includes the logic and intelligence to monitor different solutions and products. With the release of the Azure Stack Management Pack, Microsoft enables you to monitor Azure Stack using System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 or System Center Operations Manager 2016.
The Azure Stack Management Pack allows you to send notifications when alerts in Azure Stack pop up. It also allows you to schedule maintenance windows during an Azure Stack update. The MP leverages Azure Stack Health Resource Rest API which is the official API for all Azure Stack help related information and is used by the Azure Stack Portal itself, the PowerShell module and also the Nagios monitoring plugin for Azure Stack. If you are not using SCOM or Nagios you can of course also work against the Azure Stack Health Resource Rest API to get health data out of your Azure Stack appliance.
Feel free to test the new SCOM Management Pack for Azure Stack (download) and provide feedback to Microsoft.
Tags: Azure, Azure Stack, Azure Stack Management Pack, Azure Stack Monitoring, Cloud, Management Pack, Microsoft, Monitoring, OM, Operations Manager, SCOM, SCOM Management Pack for Azure Stack, System Center Last modified: July 29, 2019
