SCOM Trick 49 – monitoring CentOS

Cross platform monitoring in SCOM is a good thing. It has been a good step to include it and in many environments we have come across machines that we could now monitor with SCOM 2007 R2 (or higher). A fair number of Unix and Linux distributions which a…

SCOM Trick 48 – Certificate validation

Certificates can play an important role in SCOM when monitoring machines in non-trusted domains and workgroups. During the past years we have seen all kinds of things that can go wrong with certificates, especially during the initial stages. Mostly beca…

SCOM 2007 R2 CU5

Hello all, Just a quick post while I am still on vacation…
SCOM 2007 R2 CU5 has been released.
Be sure to first read the KB article completely. Check for known issues (in the kb article). Read before you try.. and try before you take it into product…