Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 is a mid-market ERP solution with comprehensive application functionality for various business processes, role-tailored dashboards, hundreds of reports, and a complete business intelligence (BI) solution with cubes and key performance indicators (KPI). Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 leverages the power of the underlying software components such as Microsoft SQL Server®, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, and Microsoft SharePoint® to bring together this comprehensive feature set. In order to manage the availability and performance of a Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 system, it is important to ensure that all subsystems in the infrastructure be available and performing. An end-to-end monitoring solution is therefore a key element in an administrator’s toolkit to ensure the availability of the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 system.
System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
The System Center Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 provides a complete set of rules to discover and monitor all components in a Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 installation. The following is a high-level overview of the functionality available in the Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012:
- Discoveries – The monitoring pack automatically discovers all the components that are part of your Microsoft Dynamics AX installation. This includes Microsoft Dynamics AX Application Object Server (AOS) clusters and servers, SQL Server Reporting Servers and SQL Server Analysis Servers, and Enterprise Portal for Microsoft Dynamics AX sites.
- Monitors – The health of the Microsoft Dynamics AX system is monitored constantly by configuration, availability, performance, and security monitors. A dynamic visual view of the environment depicts the health of the various Microsoft Dynamics AX components where the health of child nodes rolls up to the parent nodes.
- Performance and event collection rules – Key metrics such as server process counters and the counts of users, jobs, and activities are collected and displayed in charts in the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) console.
- Tasks – Operations Manager users can easily perform the most common administrative tasks, such as controlling AOS state and viewing information about users and jobs from within the Management console with a single click.
- Alerts – Monitoring pack rules and monitors generate alerts to inform you of situations that need to be addressed immediately and details on how to resolve the problem.
- Events – Events generated on the server computers are collected and displayed within the Operations Manager console in an event view to enable easier troubleshooting in case a problem does occur.
Performance view
AdMINiSTRATIOn MADE EASIER
Using the Operations Manager console, you can easily see which computers host various Microsoft Dynamics AX components and monitor various aspects of the health of the environment, such as hardware availability and capacity, system availability and performance, and configuration. You can configure Operations Manager to route alerts to email or pagers so that you can be notified immediately of issues. Using the Operations Manager web console, all the information is always at your fingertips, even when you are not at your desk. Using the Microsoft Visio® plug-in to Operations Manager, you can export object diagram views into a Visio diagram that can be used on your internal administration websites.
customize THE MONITORING PACK
As your business requirements change, you can customize the Monitoring Pack for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. For example:- The rules in the monitoring pack are configured to run at specific intervals. You can configure these rules to run more or less frequently by overriding the intervals for these rules using the Operations Manager console.
- You can add your own rules to monitor additional activity on your Microsoft Dynamics system and can also add additional SCOM tasks for the monitored objects to make Administration even easier.
- You can change parameters that are required for some of the monitors in the monitoring pack. For example, the threshold for the wait time can be changed in the monitor to detect long waiting jobs.
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