Low privilege port monitoring with SCOM

I came across a blogpost from Derek Harkin about port monitoring from a text file in SCOM. It essentially makes it possible to use a text file to type what machine you want to reach and at what port and it will check that every ten minutes and display a…

Catching up

So, I have a lot of catching up to do. After the holidays and the first hectic weeks at work I am finally coming round to blogging about what I find interesting. I will also refer to a lot of blogs written by others because I think they are worth it. And…

New Cisco device monitoring management pack

Kristopher Bash has a great blog over here and his newest project was an advanced SNMP monitoring pack for SCOM R2 monitoring Cisco devices. It is fun to follow the development proces through a number of his blog postings you can find on his blog.
Her…

SCOM Dell management pack V4 released

Dell released a new version of their management packs for SCOM.
Here is the link: http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R237719&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=342171
Some fixes and…

SCOM agent not starting after installation

Today I was upgrading a number of SCOM agents from SP1 to R2 version (using split monitoring at first).
After the installation the agents refused to start.
After a manual try on the machines to start the service I got the following error:
Windows…