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  • Blog Post: Extending Discovery Of Java Applications in SCOM 2012

    The solution to monitoring JEE Application Servers and Applications in SCOM 2012 is a good starting point, but sometimes you may want to do more. The good news is that the structure of theses MPs are extendable and this blog post will detail how to do that. For instance, let’s suppose that I...
    on24 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: BeanSpy: Apache Tomcat JMXQuery to list deployed applications

    Once you have deployed BeanSpy to a web application server, the next step is to see that it works. While look at the /Stats or /Stats/Info is a nice cross-platform solution, sometimes you want to know what is running on your specific application server. For the various versions of Apache Tomcat (versions...
    on7 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: Managing Tomcat 5.5 by extending the JEE Application Server MPs

    Similar to the posts for Tomcat 6 ( here ) and Tomcat 7 ( part 1 / part 2 ). This post (and Management Pack) are very similar to the previous posting with some slight platform variations. Different MBean Name The names of the MBeans class (and packages) representing Web Modules are different from...
    on14 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: UNIX/Linux Discovery and Workaround: Application Server's path is a symbolic link or from a network mount

    There is a bug in the Unix/Linux JEE application server code that for some configuration could prevent deep monitoring. The issue will occur if the Application Server path contains a symbolic link or is network mounted. In these cases, the underlying discover code does not see the path on disk, which...
    on7 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: JConsole: a tool for viewing MBeans

    JConsole is tool provided by Oracle/Sun as of Java 5 to monitor a JVM through JMX. The purpose of BeanSpy is to provide a means of exposing this information through SCOM 2012 . For those looking for more MBean information, here is a great blog post explaining how to connect JConsole to Tomcat. The information...
    on30 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Tomcat 5.5: Additional Steps to Connect to the MBean Server

    As part of SCOM 2012, there is a feature to discover and monitor Java Application Servers ( support matrix listed here ). This release supports Tomcat 5.5.x, 6.x, and 7.x, For Tomcat 5.5.x, the default application server settings do not allow the application server to have access to the JMX Store. ...
    on30 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Minor Typos in the JEE Application Server PowerShell scripts

    The help messages provided in the PowerShell scripts for adding and removing Universal Instances of JEE Application Servers to SCOM 2012 contain minor typos. The help messages (a) have the wrong script names and (b) should contain relative path to the directories. For the later, by this I mean that...
    on23 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Manually Discovering JEE Application Servers with SCOM 2012

    Out-of-the-box, System Center Operations Manager can discover several different application server platforms and versions ( support matrix is here ); however, this is not every version of every application server. Also, for an application server to be discovered and monitored in Operations Manager, the...
    on21 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Deploying Web Applications on different JEE Application Servers

    This post will discuss how to deploy BeanSpy on the supported application server platforms. The deployment information in step #2 can also be applied to any general web application (example: the Contoso Order Service ). Step #1) Get the WAR/EAR files As per the documentation , to obtain the official...
    on26 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 released!

    Microsoft releases System Center 2012 to the public at large. For those who have not already tried it, a private trial is available for download here . Part of the System Center 2012 suite is System Center Operations Manager 2012 (SCOM 2012). This release of SCOM 2012 has many great features, but...
    on18 Apr 2012

  • Blog Post: Sample JEE Application: Contoso Order Service

    To get a better understanding of how to use the SCOM 2012 Add-on of the JEE Application Server feature in future blog posts, it is going to be necessary to have an application to talk about (and write Management Packs (MPs) against). For that reason, I am going to introduce a simple application dubbed...
    on26 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Managing Tomcat 6 by extending the JEE Application Server MPs

    Previously, I wrote two posting regarding how to extend the JEE MPs to start, stop, and restarting Tomcat 7.x applications (Tomcat 7 Posting: Part 1 Part 2 ). This post will do the same for Tomcat 6. Rather than re-state what was previously posted, here I will just highlight the differences for 6.x support...
    on12 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Universal Discovery in the SCOM 2012 RC

    In the SCOM 2012 RC , there is a sample extention for Universal Discovery of application servers. This post will discuss this extension to the JEE Add-on. Out-of-the-box, the JEE Application Server Add-on feature supports a variety of applications servers on several version of Windows and Unix/Linux...
    on9 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Where to download the JEE Application Server feature for SCOM 2012 RC

    I just realized that I never put a download link to the SCOM 2012 Release Candidate Add-on for monitoring JEE Application Servers. Please go here to get the bits: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27974 .
    on9 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: Managing Tomcat 7 by extending the JEE Application Server MPs (Part 2 of 2)

    In the previous posting , I detailed that Tomcat provides an interface for starting and stopping applications. I gave synopis of the configuration changes necessary to do this as well. In this post I will detail how to write a Management Pack to run these tasks from the SCOM Console. Goal Create...
    on10 Feb 2012

  • Blog Post: Managing Tomcat 7 by extending the JEE Application Server MPs (Part 1 of 2)

    A new featured in SCOM 2012 is the monitoring of Java Application Servers . While there are several applications servers that are supported, this posting will focus on Tomcat 7.x support (with some slightly changes, this will work with previous versions, but I'll save that for a different post). I...
    on10 Feb 2012
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