SharePoint 2013 a Operations

Manager 2012 R2

- Service Visualization

Pavel Kyzivát, Premier Field Engineer

Robert Novák, Premier Field Engineer

Microsoft

Agenda

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Introduction

Architecture of the solution

SharePoint integration

Visio Add-In for System Center 2012

Authoring Service Visualizations

Publishing Service Visualizations

Introduction

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This technology provides following SCOM extension:s

• Ready-to-use monitoring web portal based on SharePoint Server

• Adopted views of LOB applications, technologies, etc. for internal customers of IT services

• SharePoint Server integrated dashboards for IT support staff

Key capabilities comprise:

• linking shapes in newly created or existing Visio documents to any SCOM monitored object (such as a

computer, database, Web site, or perspective) in order to present their current health state

• export of distributed application from SCOM Operations Console as Visio document and

automatically providing live health state information on the exported objects

• Bulk-linking shapes in existing Visio documents to the computer and network devices monitored by

SCOM by matching computer names or IP addresses

• Health states can be automatically refreshed in published Visio documents that are hosted in a

SharePoint 2010/2013 document library

Prerequisites and requirements

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IT environment prerequisites for Service Visualization:

• Operations Manager deployment

• stable and reliable SCOM infrastructure

• deployment of required technology specific Management Packs

• All Management packs are well configured and tuned

• SharePoint 2010/2013 farm, Enterprise edition with Visio services

Staffing requirements for Service Visualization deployment:

• SCOM specialist

• SharePoint specialist

Architecture: Operations Manager, Microsoft Office Visio, SharePoint Server

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Microsoft Office Visio 2010/2013

- Used as authoring tool

Visio Add-in for System Center 2012

- Required in order to use Visio as the Service Visualization diagram authoring tool able to connect to the SCOM

SharePoint server 2010/2013 with Visio services

- Used as presentation/publishing platform

SharePoint Add-in for System Center 2012

- Required for publishing of refreshable diagrams from Visio to SharePoint and their automatic refresh

Operations Manager

- Used as data provider for refreshable Visio diagrams

Microsoft Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Extensions for System Center 2012 Package

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• Core component of the whole solution

• Installation package can be downloaded from Microsoft download side

• Consists of:

- Client part – Microsoft Office Visio Add-in for System Center 2012

- installed on a computer with SCOM console and Microsoft Office Visio

(2010 or 2013)

- Server part - SharePoint Add-in for System Center 2012 (aka. Visio Services Data

Provider for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager)

Installed on SharePoint Server (2010 or 2013, Enterprise edition), with SCOM

2012 console

- Documentation

Microsoft Office Visio Add-In for System Center 2012 – installation

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• Can be installed on the desktop or server class operating system

• Prerequisites on the computer:

• SCOM 2012 Operations Console

• Microsoft Office Visio 2010/2013 Professional or higher on the computer

• Visual Studio Tools for Office 2010 (for Microsoft Office Visio 2010)

• The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0

• Installation:

• Extract “Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Extensions for System Center 2012” installation

package

• Install “Microsoft Office Visio add-in” on a computer - use setup.exe from the Client\x86 or

Client\x64 folder – based on the Microsoft Office Visio platform

• Usage:

• Visio Add-In starts up automatically with Visio 2010/2013

SharePoint Add-in for System Center 2012 – installation and configuration

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Prerequisites:

• SharePoint 2010/2013 Enterprise with Visio Services enabled

• System Center 2012 - Operations Manager console installed on SharePoint server

• The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

Setup:

• SharePoint 2010 – follow setup procedure described in “Using the Visio add-in for System Center

2012 - Operations Manager.pdf” document (contained in installation package)

• SharePoint 2013 – Follow the setup procedure described in following article:

http://www.scom2k7.com/installing-scom-2012-visio-dashboards-in-sharepoint-2013

Visio Graphics Service Application:

• Change minimum cache Age

• Add a new Trusted Data Provider

SharePoint 2013 – Visio services

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SharePoint 2013 – Visio services (part II)

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SharePoint 2013 – Visio services (part III)

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SharePoint 2013 – Visio services (part IV)

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Visio diagram authoring – configuration of SCOM management group connection

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Web console is used to launch the

Health Explorer from Visio or SharePoint

Enables to receive in Visio

regular updates of state

information from the

SCOM management server

Visio diagram authoring – adding shapes representing monitored objects (1)

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1. Selection of monitored object type (ie. class) to be added to the Visio diagram:

1a) select one of most often used types 1b) select any monitored object type

Visio diagram authoring – adding shapes representing monitored objects (2)

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Visio diagram authoring – saving Visio diagram

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SharePoint 2013 – Visio drawing publishing

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Publish vdw Web Drawing files:

• Save or Upload files directly to SharePoint library and access them directly

• Publish vdw files directly to WebPart page using Visio Web Access WebPart

• Create dashboard page based on Visio Access Webpart

SharePoint 2013 – Publish VDW file on aspx webapart page

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SharePoint 2013 – Publish VDW file on aspx webapart page (part II)

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SharePoint 2013 – Publish VDW file on aspx webapart page (part III)

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SharePoint 2013 – Publish VDW file on aspx webapart page (part IV)

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Dashboard examples - Service and Business Functions

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Dashboard examples - Watcher Node approach and architecture

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Dashboard examples – Datacenter availability

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Service visualization – PFE service

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This solution can be deployed and delivered as

Standard Premier SKU Service by PFE engineers with

following specialization:

• Operations Manager PFE Role

• SharePoint PFE Role