Plugin Development for Microsoft System Center

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Case study Custom Management Pack for Microsoft
SCOM
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Project Synopsis
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.

Challenge

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

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

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.
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Solution - Architecture
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.

Technology

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

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.

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Solution SCOM agent and SCOM Handler

SCOM Handler
SCOM agent handles the communication with SCOM
Operation Manager. SCOM Handler (Middleware)
facilitates SCOM agents direct interface with
ScaleArc.
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About Faichi Solutions

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