Microsoft Azure Batch Account

This legacy SAM application monitor template contains performance & statistics counters for monitoring batch account.

Note: This template was deprecated in SAM 2020.2 and is no longer included in fresh installations of SAM. Use the Microsoft Azure Batch Account API poller template instead. If you're new to API pollers, watch API Pollers: When SNMP Won't Cut It.

Prerequisites:

1. PowerShell module (Azure, AzureRM) must be installed prior to running this template
2. To connect with Azure account the following parameters are required: SubscriptionID, ApplicationID, TenantID, Secret Key. Note: Any Azure App (with its name & ID) having minimum role as 'Read Only'.
3. Batch Account name for which metrics must be calculated.
4. PowerShell version 5.0 or later.

Credentials:

Login credential to access Azure Portal. This has to be passed as script arguments per prerequisites 2 above. e.g. <subscriptionID>, <TenantID>, <ApplicationID>, value=<Secret Key>, < Batch Account Name>

Optional Parameters which can be passed to script argument:

1. value=<Time Interval> - for which data must be fetched (in mins). Default is 10 mins.
2. No. of retries as the second last argument (Default is 3)
3. WaitTime as the last argument (Default is 0.5 seconds)

Notes:

1. To install Azure module, execute below PowerShell commands on the machine where template would be running against.

Install-Module -Name Azure.

Install-Module -Name AzureRM.

1. Windows Administrator on the machine where template would be running against. Script should run with administration privilege

1. The ApplicationID with which you are making a connection to Azure portal (as mentioned in Credential/Prerequisites) must be registered in Azure Active Directory as contributor role for the monitored application.

Reference link: https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Server_Application_Monitor_(SAM)/Knowledgebase_Articles/Add_an_Azure_Active_Directory_app_for_cloud_monitoring_in_the_Orion_Platform

1. This template was tested with AzureRM Module 6.9.0

Portions of this document were originally created by and are excerpted from the following sources:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/monitoring-and-diagnostics/monitoring-supported-metrics

MONITORED COMPONENTS

Dedicated number of cores in the batch account

This component monitors the total number of dedicated cores in the batch account.

Unit: Count

Number of nodes created

This component monitors the total number of dedicated nodes in the batch account.

Unit: Count

Number of idle nodes

This component monitors the number of idle nodes.

Unit: Count

Number of nodes leaving the Pool

This component monitors the number of nodes leaving the Pool.

Unit: Count

Number of offline nodes

This component monitors the number of offline nodes.

Unit: Count

Total number of pools that have been created

This component monitors the total number of pools that have been created.

Unit: Count

Total number of pool deletes that have completed

This component monitors the total number of pool deletes that have completed.

Unit: Count

Total number of pool deletes that have started

This component monitors the total number of pool deletes that have started.

Unit: Count

Total number of pool resizes that have completed

This component monitors the total number of pool resizes that have completed.

Unit: Count

Total number of pool resizes that have started

This component monitors the total number of pool resizes that have started.

Unit: Count

Count of rebooting nodes

This component monitors the number of rebooting nodes.

Unit: Count

Count of reimaging nodes

This component monitors the total number of reimaging nodes.

Unit: Count.

Count of running nodes

This component monitors the number of running nodes.

Unit: Count

Count of nodes where the Start Task has failed

This component monitors the number of nodes where the Start Task has failed.

Unit: Count

Count of nodes starting

This component monitors total number of nodes that are starting.

Unit: Count

Total count of tasks that have completed

This component monitors the total number of tasks that have completed.

Unit: Count

Total count of tasks that have completed in a failed state

This component monitors the total number of tasks that have completed in a failed state.

Unit: Count

Total count of tasks that have started

This component monitors the total number of tasks that have started.

Unit: Count

Average count of nodes in the batch account

This component monitors the average number of nodes.

Average count takes following into consideration.

• Offline Node Count
• Idle Node Count
• Running Node Count
• Unusable Node Count

Unit: Count

Count of unusable nodes

This component monitors the number of unusable nodes.

Unit: Count

Count of nodes waiting for the Start Task to complete

This component monitors the number of nodes waiting for the Start Task to complete.

Unit: Count

Average number of cores in the batch account

This component monitors the average number of dedicated cores in the batch account.

Unit: Count

Troubleshooting Steps:-

Issue: - Application monitor or test is failing with unknown error.

Solution: - If test or application is failing with error “unknown status”, try following steps

Go To you do have to EDIT SCRIPT.

Check script output manually by clicking “GET SCRIPT OUTPUT”.

Provide node.

Provide credentials.

1. Save.

Now rerun test.