How to add applications of Agent-managed-Device

Question

Hello,
we just can´t get the Application-Monitoring get to work. We followed dozens of guides and read hundreds of forum-posts about it but nobody seems to have our problem.
So here´s the thing:
We downloaded/installed the "Application Monitoring" MP.
Klicking on the "Applications" view in this MP, there is no data shown.
We sure know that you first HAVE TO add Applications, but
HOW?
There is no option in Authoring or Administration.
You can´t even select which devices OM should scan for Applications.
Before I forget: We do NOT want to monitor local processes.
First, we got that to work and second, it´s pointless anyway(you can see with your bare eyes if a process is running or not...)
Thanks in advance for your help guys! We are really lost here.
P.S. We´re from Germany, so please excuse spelling-mistakes etc.

Answer 1

Hi,
What sort of monitoring do you want for your application?
APM integrated to SCOM 2012 is only for managed applications (.NET and Java), and it also suits well (and actually is intended for this purpose) for your custom apps monitoring, not only for Microsoft apps as you wrote. But these should be .NET/Java-stack
based apps.
Except of APM SCOM provides more other monitoring capabilities, some of which could be used to monitor third-party unmanaged apps:
- Web Application Availability Monitoring
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh881883.aspx
- Web Application Transaction Monitoring
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh457553.aspx
- GSM Monitoring
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2012/06/19/global-service-monitor-for-system-center-2012-observing-application-availability-from-an-outside-in-perspective.aspx
- Windows Service Monitoring
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh457595.aspx
- Process Monitoring
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh457551.aspx
- Monitoring capabilities provided by specific MPs (for example, SharePoint 2010 MP, BizTalk MP, etc)
http://unofficialsystemcentercatalog.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/operations-manager-is-there-a-management-pack-for/
- etc
As you see SCOM brings much, but APM, the current forum branch is dedicated to, is only for managed code apps, because it works as profiling wrapping the calls of your application. The profiling is not applicable to unmanaged (for example, plain C++)
code.
Igor Savchenko, VIAcode Consulting LLC (http://www.viacode.com/)