{"id":11121,"date":"2011-03-22T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11121"},"modified":"2011-03-22T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T18:00:38","slug":"want-system-center-operations-manager-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11121","title":{"rendered":"Want System Center Operations Manager in the Cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly known as \u201cProject Atlanta\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.systemcenteradvisor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">System Center Advisor<\/a> (SCA) was talked about today at MMS 2011.&#160; It basically is a cloud version of OpsMgr, capable of monitoring your machines.&#160; Right now, it supports monitoring of x86 or x64 versions of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or later <\/li>\n<li>Windows Server 2008 or later <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those experienced with OpsMgr will know that an OpsMgr agent (which is what SCA uses BTW) uses Kerberos (AD) for authentication.&#160; That won\u2019t be possible here!&#160; But OpsMgr does have a gateway.&#160; SCA uses that Gateway functionality.&#160; So, if you want to use SCA you have to install the SCA Gateway and that requires a machine running Windows Server 2008 (x86 or x64) or later.&#160; Your agents authenticate with the gateway and the gateway authenticates with SCA in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The architecture isn\u2019t all that different to what has been possible with OpsMgr 2007 up to now.&#160; And the firewall side of things is easy too!<\/p>\n<p>You can access a web portal to monitor all of your resources on those supported platforms.&#160; I guess more platforms will be added over time.<\/p>\n<p>The setup is easy.&#160; Log into the site with a Windows Live ID.&#160; You download your unique gateway cert.&#160; Install the gateway with the cert.&#160; Deploy your agents!&#160; You\u2019re practically walked through the process:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: ; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/image_thumb2.png\" width=\"504\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will be attractive to smaller companies who want some of the power of OpsMgr.&#160; They might get that functionality without the outlay on hardware and consulting.&#160; Some VPS hosted companies may like this.&#160; It\u2019s not enterprise ready; the limited platform support is an issue.&#160; And we don\u2019t really know how \u201clive\u201d it will be.&#160; But it definitely is something worth keeping an eye on.<\/p>\n<p>As a MS partner, it\u2019s a bit worrying because it redirects business from the partner directly to MS.&#160; It also doesn\u2019t appear to have that partner model that is evident in Intune.&#160; Speaking of which \u2013 I see no integration with Intune.&#160; Maybe with time \u2026<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8ce4b002-5e2d-46d5-adb6-0475a8040fa9\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Operations+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Operations Manager<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Cloud\" rel=\"tag\">Cloud<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly known as \u201cProject Atlanta\u201d, System Center Advisor (SCA) was talked about today at MMS 2011.&#160; It basically is a cloud version of OpsMgr, capable of monitoring your machines.&#160; Right now, it supports monitoring of x86 or x64 versions of: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 or later Windows Server 2008 or later Those experienced with OpsMgr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Want System Center Operations Manager in the Cloud?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[83,193],"class_list":["post-11121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opsmgr","tag-operations-manager","tag-system-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}