Hello,
We are currently running SCOM 2012 in our environment on a Windows 2008 R2 server. We require the use of SCOM 2012s service level dashboard functionality to track the performance of applications and infrastructure across the environment. To do this, for any given agent, we require the health state of any application on that server to be separate from the health state of the server OS and hardware.
For example, say that a critical service for a particular application has gone down, and this service is monitored by a custom service monitor (i.e. the application is only monitored by custom monitors and not by a Microsoft Management pack). We want this to be reflected in the Service Level Dashboard of the resource responsible for the Application, and not to appear in the SLD for the resource responsible for the Server infrastructure.
After further investigation, we came to the conclusion that the only way to perform this separation is to use a Distributed Application combined with dependency roll-up monitors. First, a DA was created encompassing the server infrastructure and databases that are associated with the monitored application. Different component groups were created for the servers and databases. However, for example, when a monitor was created targeting the 'Server' component group, the health state of the monitor wasn't visible in the health explorer of any of the servers within this component group.
Is this because a component group is no different from a regular SCOM 2012 group? Are custom classes specifically created to discover the servers in the component group the only way to perform this separation of infrastructure and custom applications?
Any help or response will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
-Nishan