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Mohamed Radwan is a Visual Studio ALM MVP and Senior ALM Consultant @ Marvel ALM with 10+ years of experience in the software industry (Architecture, Design, Development and Management) specializing in Microsoft Technologies and Agile Methodologies with a customer list that spans the Middle East. M.Radwan’s areas of focus are: C# / .NET, ASP.NET, MVC, JQuery, TDD, BDD, Team Build, TFS, Application Architecture, Agile, Process Automation and Improvement, Configuration Management and Automation. M.Radwan is the founder of TFSEG User Group, Co-founder of MEAALM Community , the author of DevMagicFake Mocking Framework and a frequent speaker in different Microsoft events. M.Radwan also holds M.Sc. of Computer Sciences and Information Technology in Agile Methodologies. M.Radwan holds number of Microsoft certifications including MCT, MCPD, MCITP in EPM, MCTS (7), MCSD, MCAD and CIW Mohamed is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 10 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile

Monitoring TFS 2012 using SCOM (System Center Operation Manager 2012)

01.04.2013
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Beside using SCOM (System Center Operation Manager) in ALM to eliminate the boundaries between the development and the operation in the DevOps approach, we can also use it to monitor the TFS Server itself.

TFS 2012 (Team Foundation Server 2012) Monitoring Management Pack available now, it will help us monitoring Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2012. It monitors different TFS components like application tier server instances, team project collections, build servers, and proxy servers.

The list of objects that can be monitored:

  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSInstallation
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSApplicationTier
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSAdministrationWebService
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSAuthorizationWebService
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSBuildWebService
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSProjectCollection
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSRegistrationWebService
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSVersionControlWebService
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSWarehouse
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSWebAccess
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSWorkItemTrackingWebService
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSBuildAgent
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSBuildController
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSBuildServer
  • TeamFoundationServer2012.TFSProxy

Health Explorer is used to show the Health Model, as we can see it showing the state of the object and various monitors of that item arranged in a tree view.

Health Explorer for SCOM TFS Management Pack
Health Explorer can showing also unhealthy states (red). We can know the possible causes and resolutions from the listed on the “Knowledge” article on the right.

Health Explorer has error for SCOM TFS Management Pack
Some  existing alerts

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