System Center Operations Manager Managed Instance

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), part of the System Center suite of on-premises datacenter management software, enables central health and performance monitoring for datacenter resources such as servers, VMs, network infrastructure, and storage. SCOM Managed Instance provides SCOM as an Azure service that includes management of the underlying software and servers, while remaining compatible with existing management packs and configurations. It could benefit customers who need SCOM capabilities for monitoring resources in Azure, on-premises, and in third-party clouds. 

Service Overview

SCOM Managed Instance is deployed as a VM scale set in the customer’s Azure subscription and requires access to the customer’s Active Directory domain, network access to workloads to be managed, and a customer-deployed Azure SQL Managed Instance for the SCOM database.

Updates to the underlying OS within VMs are applied automatically, SCOM patches are applied via the Azure portal, and the portal also allows customers to scale SCOM Managed Instance out or in by adjusting the number of servers in the scale set.