An update is available to the SQL Server 2016 MP you can get version 7.0.15.0 here
This release is the RTM version of the management pack and brings the version number in to alignment with the other SQL MPs
As part of my Azure feature series lets take a look at Front Door.
Azure Front Door Service provides a scalable and secure entry point for fast delivery of your global web applications.
This essentially means that by placing a Front Door ahead of your application you gain increased performance and security.
Setting up is straight forward, if you’d like to test Front door and you don’t have an application to use you can setup a sample web app using my previous article here .
First click New Resource in your Azure Portal and search for Front Door, then click Create
Choose your subscription ,resource group and Azure region. then click Next: Configuration
Now it’s a simple three step process
Click the + icon in the corner of the frontend host window and give you frontdoor a name and enable Session Affinity if required.
Next click the + icon in the corner of the backend pool window. Give your pool a name, configure your load balancing and then click on add a backend.
Backend hosts can be various types in this example we are using an App Service, you can also use Cloud Service, Storage, Storage(Classic) or Custom host. Select your Subscription and backend host and click add and then add again.
Next click the + icon in the corner of the routing rules window. Give your rule a name, decide if it must accept HTTP or HTTPS or both and select your frontend host. Next configure the forwarder and enable caching if required, if your app uses lots of static content this will drastically improve load time performance, then click add.
click Review + Create and then Create
You should now be able to access your application using the frontdoor URL available on the top right hand side of the Overview blade.
Below we have two speed test results one for my webapp API and one for my Frontdoor we can see a 53% improvement from 1.33 seconds to 710 milliseconds.
Webapp Load Test
Frondoor Load Test
This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in May 2019. Information and download location in the links provided:
Lenovo Hardware Management Pack v7.6.0.8 – here
If you know of any other Management Packs that have been released recently that I may have missed leave me a note in the comments and I’ll add them
A new version of the Lenovo Hardware management pack is available get it here
What’s New
If you ever need to test Application insights or any of the other Azure features that need an application such as Front Door there is a simple way to create a test application baked into Azure.
In your Azure portal simple click on “New Resource” and search for Bakery and click Create
Now give the App a name, choose your subscription, resource group and an applicable App Service Plan. Remember the more robust the plan the higher the cost, there is a free limited Tier available called F1 Shared. Then click Create.
After a few minutes your application will be deployed and ready for use with Azure Features. select App Services in your Azure Portal and then click on your Bakery Application
You can find the URL for your new site at the top right of the Overview blade.
Browsing the URL you should see the below site.
For an extra tip if you need the site again you can turn it off instead of deleting it to save some costs. Just press stop in the application overview.
A new feature in Azure, Workbooks combine text, Analytics queries, Azure Metrics, and parameters into rich interactive reports.
For those of your familiar with SCOM, think of workbooks as a pre-bundled set of metrics similar to the dashboards you are already familiar with. It offers a simple method to share useful dashboards which can also be copied and exported.
Let’s dive right in.
Simply navigate to Monitor in the Azure portal and click on Workbooks, currently in preview at the time of this article.
There are several pre-build templates out of the box as well as a GIT available as a repository for additional templates.
VM Metrics Example
Below are several sample outputs of the various workbooks, not only do they look good but they also contain rich useful information on every object in your subscription that is metric enabled.
This is a summary of the wave of Management Packs that were released in April 2019. Information and download location in the links provided:
Windows Server 2016 and 1709+ v10.1.0.0 – here
SQL management packs v7.0.15.0 – here
IBM Storage MP v2.7.0 – here
If you know of any other Management Packs that have been released recently that I may have missed leave me a note in the comments and I’ll add them
Update rollup 7 for SCOM is now available as usual you can get it through windows update or here
How to guide – here note the known issues and slight change to getting started.
A decent update with quite a few fixes listed below:
It’s been a little while since we’ve talked about the IBM Storage MP and there have been some improvements, as always you can get it here but remember you will need the serial number of your IBM device in order to download.
So what’s new?
Version 2.7.0 adds support for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2016 and the following storage system releases:
This version also includes the following enhancement:
The following properties have been added to the IBM Storage Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager user interface for the IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ Family management pack to make it easier to distinguish between different IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family storage systems being managed:
The updated version of Windows Server Operating System 2016 and 1709 Plus can be found here
New in this version