Ali Burak Genç

For the past 15 years, I’ve specialized in designing and implementing monitoring systems, predominantly using SCOM. With over 20 years of experience in network and system administration, I’ve worked across retail, media, and financial services, gaining insights into diverse business requirements. This enabled me to develop tailored monitoring solutions and integrations using SCOM. In recent years, my focus has expanded to include cloud and open-source solutions such as Azure, Prometheus/Grafana, and Zabbix. Outside of my professional pursuits, I also have a keen interest in photography.

How to Avoid SCOM Monitor Duplication After In-Place OS Upgrade

September 30, 2024 by Ali Burak Genç

When in-place upgrading Windows Server 2012 Server to a newer version, SCOM agents can encounter a common issue: duplicate monitors for logical disks and IIS components. Understanding and Resolving SCOM Duplicate Monitors in In-Place Upgraded Environments A few days ago, one of our customers has contacted us telling they have realised that there was a … Read more

SCOM 2022 and SSRS 2022 Compatibility Issues: A Recent Discovery

August 27, 2024 by Ali Burak Genç

Although SCOM and SSRS often works seamlessly, recent versions of SSRS 2022 have introduced issues running performance-related reports in SCOM 2022. A few weeks ago one of our customers running SCOM 2022 has reported an error with Reports in their SCOM 2022 installation. Some of them were working fine while the ones related or linked … Read more

SCOM Console Linux Agent Upgrade Issue

July 3, 2024 by Ali Burak Genç

When Microsoft releases a new UNIX\Linux agent version and you upgrade the agents, it is possible that the SCOM Console shows upgrade as done but the versions may revert back to the previous version. We will look into why this happens and how to solve it. In low privileged environments, defined UNIX\Linux accounts in your … Read more