Yup, seriously. And I work for Microsoft. Cost is an issue - 13,000 client licenses cost $150,000, but the larger part is that they were all laptops. Someone mentioned Systrack, which is actually what SCOM replaced. It hasn't been completely rolled out, I'm still trying to instill some things into the customer - mainly, when you have laptops that aren't using DirectAccess or some other 'always on' vpn, it will make SCOM not work - unless you OMS, which is has a monitoring agent (The same agent in v.next) that allows reporting to a SCOM MS & an OMS workspace - you have to write a lot of things to deal with offline agents.
That being said, the customer has an employee that basically got everything in place, had licenses ordered, kicked out systrack, etc - so our job was to show it could work, and it can. They also monitor servers, but in a tiered fashion. The SERVER-MG is parent and CLIENTS-MG is child and handles communication between laptops and SCOM. Hardware wise, it wasn't bad. 6 MS will cover all of them. But the DB servers have to be beastly. In fact, the DW server consists of a 40 disk RAID10 just for the data. But we were able to show that it would work, and even show some neat additional things, like being able to detect when users need a beefier machine, etc etc. I'll try to go into more detail this evening. On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Marcum, John <[email protected]> wrote: > Seriously? Every time I’ve even thought about doing that all the SCOM guys > and MS folks tell me it’s insane to even think about doing it. I only have > 1000 desktops where I am now and I was told it was an insane idea. > > > * ------------------------------ * > > * John Marcum* > > MCITP, MCTS, MCSA > * Desktop Architect* > > * Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP* > * ------------------------------ * > > > > [image: H_Logo] > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy Pavleck > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 6, 2016 11:57 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [msmom] SCOM Desktop monitoring > > > > I will get back to you in more detail when I can, but yes I have > experience. In fact, we just rolled out SCOM monitoring to 13,000 desktops. > > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am beginning some research into monitoring desktops with SCOM. Does > anyone know of a good best practices document or write up on doing this? > Currently all my experience is with server monitoring. The request is > typically vague at this point but I want to at least get an overview. > Checking on the current sources now (TechNet docs) but figured I would ask > if anyone knew of something more specific. Like is it even a good idea to > mix server and client monitoring in a mid sized environment? (~1300 > servers monitored currently) > > > > Thanks, > > Steven Peck > > http://www.blkmtn.org > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be > protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to > this e-mail and then delete it from your computer. > >
