SCOM / BI – Dashboard Integration

Bernd SchneiderTechnical Solution Professional - BIMicrosoft Schweiz

Agenda

Solution Overview and ArchitectureCollect the Source Data

Operations Manager Data WarehouseSQL Server Integration Services

Build the CubeSQL Server Analysis Services

Put it all TogetherSharePoint Server 2007 & PerformancePoint Server 2007

Solution Walk-Through & Creating SCOM Dashboards

You Can Do More With Your SystemCenter Data!

Integrated (balanced) view of IT Performance

Roll up disparate metrics in a single scorecard – Server capacity, Transactions, SLA measurement

Ad-hoc analyticsHelp determine root cause for usage spikes, application downtime

Predictive analyticsWhat will my capacity needs look like next year?

Leverages existing infrastructureSQL Server, Operations Manager, SharePoint, Office

Scorecards and Dashboards

Availability Metrics

Performance Counters

Monitor State Detail

Hourly Data

Daily Trends

Root-cause Analysis and Trending

Microsoft BI Offering*

END USER TOOLS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPS

ExcelPerformancePoint

Server

BI PLATFORM

SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Server DBMS

SQL Server Integration Services

SharePoint Server

DELIVERY

Reports Dashboards Excel Workbooks

AnalyticViews Scorecards Plans

* Technical product line

This solution

END USER TOOLS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT APPS

ExcelPerformancePoint

Server

BI PLATFORM

SQL Server Reporting Services

SQL Server Analysis Services

SQL Server DBMS

SQL Server Integration Services

SharePoint Server

DELIVERY

Reports Dashboards Excel Workbooks

AnalyticViews Scorecards Plans

SQL Server Analysis Services Advantages

“Sandbox” environment for business users to:

Formally integrate data from other systemsView data models that reflect how the business side sees the world (custom hierarchies, new groupings, friendly naming, calculations)Consume “temporal” or one-off data models

Provides an ad-hoc experience optimized for end-user query performance, trending and drill-down analysisAd-hoc queries and frequent monitoring of KPIs will not load down the transactional database

MOSS/PPS Integration

Interactive dashboards in SharePointLinked filters, scorecards, and analytics (keep everything in-context)

ScorecardsAggregate disparate metrics on a single scorecard, or “balanced scorecard”Measure and monitor data from virtually any tabular (Excel, ODBC) or multi-dimensional data source (SSAS)Flexible, user-defined KPI targets, thresholds, and scoring

Trend analysis

Solution Architecture

Operations Manager Data Warehouse Facts & Dimensions

Alerts Events

Performance State

Entities

SQL Server Analysis Services

Data Source ViewUDM structure

MeasuresDimensionsCalculations

Data Source View

Diagrams of star schemas – state cube, perf cube

Measure Groups

StateAmount of time that monitors are in a particular state, and percent of total

Performance CountersAverage, minimum, and maximum performance counter valuesStandard deviation

Entity Monitors Dimension

Hierarchy and attributes for availability, health, and performance monitors

• Top Level Group• • Type• • • Path• • • • Entity Name• • • • • Monitor Name

Performance Counters DimensionHierarchy and attributes for entity performance counters (% free space, CPU, etc.)

• Top Level Group• • Type• • • Path• • • • Object Name• • • • • Instance Name• • • • • • Counter Name

State DimensionMonitor states, grouped by up/down time. Default monitor grouping may be re-configured with a T-SQL CASE statement.

• Up Down Key• • State Description

Time and Date DimensionsCalendar dates and hours of day, with separate attributes for time-folded analysis (values by hour for the past week, for example)

• Date by Month (Year, Quarter, Month, Date)

• Date by Week (Year, Week, Date)• Time (Hours, in 12 hour or 24 hour

format)

Period CalculationsA dimension that contains dynamic, time-based calculations

• Month-to-date• Quarter-to-date• Year-to-date• Prior Period• Year-to-date, Prior Year• Percentage change

PPS Dashboard Designer

Creating SCOM Dashboard

demo

Demo Flow

Navigation through SCOM Dashboards

Dashboard Designer walkthrough

Create SCOM DashboardDatasourceKPI „Availability”KPI „Disk free space”Scorecard and Objective KPIAnalytic Grid „Performance Counter“Analytic Chart „Disk free space trend line“Dashboard Deployment

Conclusion

We have…Discussed the need for IT Operations scorecards, dashboards, analyticsDiscussed building an Analysis Services cubeCreated Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), scorecards, dashboards, and analytic reports

More Possibilities

Data Mining Add-In for ExcelEvent correlation!

Data-driven diagrams with VisioShow KPI status in a topology diagram

Predictive trend lines with PerformancePoint Trend ChartsMore…

More informationSQL Server Datawarehouse Overviewhttp://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sqlserver/dd421879.aspx

PerformancePoint Webhttp://www.microsoft.com/business/performancepoint/

SCOM/PPS Whitepaper & Sampleshttp://www.microsoft.com/business/performancepoint/downloads/default.aspx

Operations Manager Report Guide http://blogs.technet.com/momteam/archive/2008/02/26/operations-manager-report-authoring-guide.aspx

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