title	Configure System Center Operations Manager to monitor APS
description	Follow these steps to configure the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) management packs for Analytics Platform System. The Management Packs are required to monitor Analytics Platform System from SCOM.
author	mzaman1
ms.prod	sql
ms.technology	data-warehouse
ms.topic	conceptual
ms.date	04/17/2018
ms.author	murshedz
ms.reviewer	martinle
ms.custom	seo-dt-2019

Configure System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to Monitor Analytics Platform System

Follow these steps to configure the System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Management Packs for Analytics Platform System. The Management Packs are required to monitor Analytics Platform System from SCOM.

Before You Begin

Prerequisites

System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 must be installed and running.

The management packs must be installed and configured. See Install the SCOM Management Packs (Analytics Platform System) and Import the SCOM Management Pack for PDW (Analytics Platform System).

Configure Run-As Profile in System Center

To configure System Center, you have to perform following steps:

Create Run As account for the APS Watcher domain user and map it to the Microsoft APS Watcher Account.
Create Run As account for the monitoring_user APS user and map it to the Microsoft APS Action Account.

Here are detailed instructions on how to do the tasks:

Create the APS Watcher Run As account with Windows account type for the APS Watcher domain user.
1. Navigate to the Administration pane, right-click on Run As Configuration -> Accounts and select Create Run As Account...
2. The Create Run As Account Wizard dialog will open. On the Introduction page, click Next.
3. On the General Properties page, select Windows from Run As Account type and specify "APS Watcher" as the Display name.
4. On the Credentials page,
5. On the Distribution Security page, select Less secure and click the Create button to finish.
  1. If you decide to use the More secure option, you have to manually specify computers to which credentials will be distributed. To do this, after creating the Run As account, right-click on it and select Properties.
  2. Navigate to the Distribution tab and Add desired computers.
Set the Microsoft APS Watcher Account profile to use APS Watcher Run As account.
1. Navigate to Administration -> Run As Configuration -> Profiles.
2. Right click on Microsoft APS Watcher Account from the list and select Properties.
3. The Run As Profile Wizard dialog will open. Skip the Introduction page by clicking Next.
4. On the General Properties page, click Next.
5. On the Run As Accounts page, click the Add... button and select the previously created APS Watcher Run As account.
6. Click Save to finish profile assignment.
Wait until APS appliances discovery completes.
1. Navigate to the Monitoring pane and open the SQL Server Appliance -> Microsoft Analytics Platform System -> Appliances state view.
2. Wait until the appliance appears in the list. The name of the appliance should be equal to one specified in the registry. After discovery completes you should see all appliances listed but not monitored. To enable monitoring, follow the next steps.
[!NOTE]
The next steps can be completed in parallel while you are waiting for the initial appliance discovery to finish.
Create another new Run As account to query APS for health data retrieval.
1. Begin creating a new Run As account as described in step 1.
2. On the General Properties page, select Basic Authentication account type.
3. On the Credentials page, supply valid credentials to access APS health state DMVs.
Configure the Microsoft APS Action Account profile to use the newly created Run As account for the APS instance.
1. Navigate to the Microsoft APS Action Account properties as described in step 2.
2. On the Run As Accounts page, click Add... and
3. select the newly created Run As account.