SCOM scales up to 15,000 agents. The perceived performance at this scale is HIGHLY dependent on the number of management packs in place, the number of classes, relationships, and workflows. And scale is impacted highly by the sizing of the hardware and I/O throughput capabilities provided (i.e… physical vs virtual, shared resources vs dedicated, disk, CPU, and memory I/O)
In the case of typical client OS monitoring, the number of classes is very small, as is the number of important monitoring workflows. This allows a client OS monitoring environment to scale very well. Client OS monitoring is fairly common. We have customers who take the scale to the maximum supported numbers…. especially common in cases where the client OS is a POS machine, ATM, Kiosk, etc. Even on standard user laptops and desktops, this can provide benefit for ACS scenarios, proactive disk failure monitoring, or performance reporting. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Friday, January 8, 2016 8:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [msmom] SCOM Desktop monitoring We own the license actually. We own all of Sys Center for all workstations, desktops and users. It’s part of a suite we bought. I was thinking someone told me SCOM doesn’t scale well past a couple thousand machines though. ________________________________ John Marcum MCITP, MCTS, MCSA Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ [H_Logo] From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Garth Jones Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 1:01 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [msmom] SCOM Desktop monitoring I have always thought the cost was nuts. ( I haven’t looked at the cost in years, truth be told) Yes, there are time where it make sense but for the average PC, is the cost worth it? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Casey Robertson Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 1:32 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [msmom] SCOM Desktop monitoring Wow – I ran into one guy that ran it just for Excel. Their traders relied so heavily upon it they needed to know right away if Excel was borked and needed fixing/reloading. From: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of "Marcum, John" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 10:15 AM To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: [msmom] SCOM Desktop monitoring 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 ________________________________ [H_Logo] From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Pavleck Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 11:57 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.blkmtn.org&data=01%7c01%7ckevin.holman%40microsoft.com%7ce39d723af0364acf5de008d31836be49%7c72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7c1&sdata=ts9xnYUH8apoGty1Ea7LV905cNSyTJg6i6fnJ3JYV5s%3d> ________________________________ 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.
