SCOM Management Packs available for download, developed either by the community or Squared Up.
The Data on Demand Management Packs contains a number of useful System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) agent tasks, including the Netstat task required by Squared Up Visual Application Discovery & Analytics feature.
The Enterprise Application Monitoring library doesn't make any changes to your environment directly, but is required for SquaredUp for SCOM v4's Enterprise Applications, as it acts as a base class for any Enterprise applications you map in SquaredUp
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Community.DataOnDemand.MP
What is the Data On Demand MP
The Data on Demand Management Packs contains several useful Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) agent tasks, including the Netstat task required by Squared Up Visual Application Discovery & Analysis.
To make use of these Management packs, you will need SCOM installed and configured, monitoring your environment. No other dependencies are required.
Getting started
This GitHub repository contains the source files. The sealed downloadable management packs can be found here:
https://download.squaredup.com/management-packs/
To install the Data On Demand MPs you will need:
- SCOM 2012 R2 (earlier versions may be supported but are untested)
- SCOM Admin rights (only Administrators can import management packs)
- If you plan to import the Data On Demand Unix MP, you will need to import and configure the relevant Microsoft Unix management packs first.
Install the SCOM Management Pack
Import the management packs into SCOM using the standard process.
The MPs will show up as Data on Demand - Community Management Pack.
The MPs adds a number of agent tasks to various computer classes, with the suffix (Data On Demand). This can be viewed in the SCOM console under Authoring > Management Pack Objects > Tasks.
Management Pack Contents
Tasks
| Display Name |
Target |
Description |
| Get DNS Cache (Data On Demand) |
Windows Computer |
Lists all entries in the server's DNS cache. |
| List Event Logs (Data On Demand) |
Windows Computer |
Displays the last 4 entries in the system event log. |
| Get Netstat CSV (Data On Demand) |
Unix Computer |
Displays established TCP connections using netstat. |
| Get Netstat CSV (Data On Demand) |
Windows Computer |
Displays established TCP connections using netstat. |
| List Processes (Data On Demand) |
Windows Computer |
Lists the top 10 processes sorted by CPU usage. |
| List Services (Data On Demand) |
Windows Computer |
Lists the name and status of services. |
| Resolve Addresses (Data On Demand) |
Unix Computer |
Looks up the specified IP Addresses or names using configured DNS settings on the target computer. |
| Resolve Addresses (Data On Demand) |
Windows Computer |
Looks up the specified IP Addresses or names using configured DNS settings on the target computer. |
Note: Windows tasks support returning data in JSON, however this is only supported if PowerShell v3 or later are availible on the target agent.
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