[OpsMgr 2012 R2] Microsoft Monitoring Agent 2013 ( #MMA #OpsMgr2012R2 )

Microsoft Monitoring Agent monitors computer infrastructure and application health. It collects diagnostic data, such as performance metrics, event logs, and traces. Microsoft Monitoring Agent can be used as a standalone tool or together with System Center Operations Manager. When monitoring .NET applications, you can direct the agent to save application traces in an IntelliTrace log format.

Version:	Date Published:
1.0	9/24/2013
File name:	File size:
MMASetup-AMD64.exe	26.4 MB
MMASetup-i386.exe	21.1 MB

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Microsoft Monitoring Agent monitors computer infrastructure and application health. It collects diagnostic data, such as performance metrics, event logs, and traces. Microsoft Monitoring Agent can be used as a standalone tool or together with System Center Operations Manager. When monitoring .NET applications, youMicrosoft Monitoring Agent monitors computer infrastructure and application health. It collects diagnostic data, such as performance metrics, event logs, and traces. Microsoft Monitoring Agent can be used as a standalone tool or together with System Center Operations Manager. When monitoring .NET applications, you can direct the agent to save application traces in an IntelliTrace log format that can be opened in Visual Studio Ultimate. When connected to System Center Operations Manager, the agent calculates the health state of the monitored computers and objects, and then reports back to the management server. The management servers centrally distribute the configuration to agents and store data received from the monitored computers.

Microsoft Monitoring Agent can be used as a standalone tool for collecting application traces locally. You can use PowerShell commands to start and stop monitoring and collect IntelliTrace logs from applications written in Microsoft .NET Framework.

Microsoft Monitoring Agent includes the full functionality of System Center Operations Manager Agent, .NET Application Performance Monitoring, and IntelliTrace Standalone Collector and can be used for monitoring applications that are running in production environments.

Compatibility

• Visual Studio Ultimate 2013
• Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 Update 4
• System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager
• System Center 2012 SP1 – Operations Manager )
• System Center 2012 – Operations Manager

For details about compatibility and upgrade guidance, see Microsoft Monitoring Agent Compatibility (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=323495) can direct the agent to save application traces in an IntelliTrace log format.

Service	Microsoft Monitoring Agent
Build	September 2013 release
Supported versions of System Center	System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Operations Manager System Center 2012 – Operations Manager
Supported versions of Visual Studio	Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 Update 2
Interoperability information	If you want to use local monitoring with Application Performance Monitoring in System Center 2012 SP1, you must be running Update 4.

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[OpsMgr 2012 R2] Why Operations Manager Agent becomes Microsoft Monitoring Agent ? ( #OpsMgr #Opsmgr2012R2 )

Since the release of System Center 2012 R2, we can ask why did Microsoft rename the Operations Manager agent to "Microsoft Monitoring Agent" ?

Microsoft Monitoring Agent is a new agent that replaces the Operations Manager Agent and combines .NET Application Performance Monitoring (APM) in System Center with the full functionality of IntelliTrace Collector in the Microsoft Visual Studio development system for gathering full application-profiling traces.

Microsoft Monitoring Agent can collect traces on demand or can be left running to monitor applications and collect traces.

You can limit the disk space that the agent uses to store collected data. When the amount of data reaches the limit, the agent begins to overwrite the oldest data and store the latest data in its place.

You can use Microsoft Monitoring Agent together with Operations Manager or as a stand-alone tool for monitoring web applications that were written on the Microsoft .NET Framework. In both cases, you can direct the agent to save application traces in an IntelliTrace log format that can be opened in Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate. The log contains detailed information about application failures and performance issues.
You can use Windows PowerShell commands to start and stop monitoring and collect IntelliTrace logs from web applications that are running on Internet Information Services (IIS). To open IntelliTrace logs that are generated from APM exceptions and APM performance events, you can use Visual Studio. For information about supported versions of IIS and Visual Studio, see Microsoft Monitoring Agent Compatibility.

Source & more information : Technet Site

We can also read this interesting article : Introducing Microsoft Monitoring Agent that explain how to use the Microsoft Monitoring Agent in standalone mode and how to generate and use the IntelliTrace file !


Daniele Muscetta has written too an interesting post explaining Microsoft Monitoring Agent, System Center Operations Manager and Visual Studio Application Insights

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