Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
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Health Explorer
This allows you to view the health status of a web application avail-
ability test on a per-location basis.
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Test Visualization Dashboard
This allows you to view Global Service Monitor web
test results, including performance data.
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GLOBAL SERVICE MONITOR
You can learn more about System Center Global Service Monitor at
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Application Performance Monitoring (APM) allows you to monitor Internet Information
Services (IIS) hosted .NET and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications from
both the server and client side perspectives. This allows you to use Operations Manager to
collect detailed information about a specific application's performance of reliability.
You use the .NET Application Performance Monitoring Template, available through the
Authoring workspace of the Operations console, to configure Application Performance
Monitoring. To view Application Performance Monitoring event details, it is necessary to have
installed an instance of the Operations Manger web console. You'll also have to import the
following management packs and their dependencies:
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Windows Server 2008 IIS 7.0
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Operations Manager APM Web IIS 7
If monitoring Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2, you'll need to import the
following management packs and their dependencies:
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Microsoft Windows Server 2012 IIS 8
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Microsoft System Center APM Web IIS 8
Once these management packs are installed, you'll be able to view the ASP.NET applica-
tions that Operations Manager finds in the Monitoring workspace, under Application Moni-
toring, under the .NET Monitoring node in the ASP.NET Web Application Inventory node.
You'll be able to view WCF applications under the IIS Hosted WCF Web Service Inventory
node. Once APM discovers an application, IIS will usually need to be restarted. This allows the
application pools to recycle, enabling the APM extensions, and allowing the APM function, to
be registered with the application.
The server-side monitoring capabilities of APM include:
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Performance event monitoring and alerting
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Exception event monitoring and alerting
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Modifying performance event threshold
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Configuring performance event monitoring thresholds and sensitivity on a per-
namespace or per-method basis
