Hi, we are excited to announce the preview of the Management Pack for Windows Azure Fabric. This Management Pack enables you to monitor the availability and performance of Azure fabric resources that are running on Windows Azure.
You will find the preview Management Pack as well as the draft documentation (MP Guide) on the Microsoft Download Center.
Note that this is a completely new Management Pack that does not upgrade the previous Azure Management Pack. Note also that this Management Pack requires System Center Operations Manager 2012 SP1 or later. This Management Pack is currently not supported in production environments.
The following monitoring scenarios are covered by the Management Pack
Monitoring scenario | Description | Associated rules and monitors |
Role Instance Availability and Status | This scenario monitors the role |
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Role Instance Performance | This scenario monitors the CPU and |
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Scale up/down | This scenario enables you to scale up |
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Virtual Machine Availability and Status | This scenario monitors the role |
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Storage Availability | This scenario monitors the availability |
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Storage Size | This scenario monitors the size of the |
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Topology Dashboard | This scenario allows you to see how |
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Certificate health | This scenario monitors certificate expiration of management and cloud service certificates and alerts if the certificates are about to expire |
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Hybrid Application definition and | This scenario allows you to model a |
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Submitting feedback
You can submit feedback by sending mail directly to akep at Microsoft dot com. You can also submit feedback by commenting on this blog post.
We are looking forward to your feedback on this Management Pack.