New SCOM Training and certification options!

As you may know, TopQore has a range of trainings for SCOM and SCOM MI available, ranging from Operator to Administrator, to Specialist and Architect. I am writing today to announce some upcoming dates for the pieces of training because it is often requested. Dates in chronological order for Q4 2024: Date Training Start Time … Read more

SCOM MI now released new Agent and Gateway management

Yesterday Microsoft announced the General Availability (GA) of the SCOM Agent and Gateway extensions to deploy agents and establish communication for the agents in Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (SCOM MI). It uses Azure Arc to deploy and update the agent extensions and it can establish the connection trust that way as well. Challenges When … Read more

Runbook Designer and Deployment Manager crashing after applying Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2022 Orchestrator

We have updated the System Center 2022 Orchestrator to Update Rollup 2 few days back. After updating we tried creating a Runbook with the Get Alert activity of System Center Integration Pack for System Center – Operations Manager (SCOM) in Runbook designer as part of our internal activity. Everything was working as expected before the … Read more

SCOMathon 2024

I am happy to say that SCOMathon will be organized again this year. SCOMathon 2024 will be 22 May 2024 again as an online event. Sessions will span from early morning until late in the evening, so as many people worldwide can catch some good sessions from this on the day itself. 8 sessions, 2 … Read more

SCOMeetup 2024

The SCOMeetup event will be organized by OpsLogix again in Gothenburg Sweden on 25 April 2024. It is a day of SCOM and monitoring content presented by speakers from Microsoft, TopQore, Silect, SquaredUp, Teqwave and of course OpsLogix. This is an on-site event, and it is free. If you happen to be in or around … Read more

System Center 2019 UR6

While looking through the SCOM 2019 UR6 stuff, I did also find the other post for System Center 2019 products. Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2019 – Microsoft Support As you will see, there are UR6 updates right now for SC2019 versions of: SCOM, SCORCH, SCVMM, SCDPM. For SCOM 2019 UR6, I wrote a … Read more

SCOM 2019 UR6 is available

Microsoft has released UR6 for SCOM 2019 this week. The article is found here Update Rollup 6 for System Center 2019 Operations Manager – Microsoft Support on the System Center Blog. This will bring the KB5035285 version to 10.19.10649.0 for the server and 10.19.10253.0 for the agents. This time we see a number of fixes, … Read more

SCOM Linux – OMI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability – CVE-2024-21334

On 12th March 2024 Microsoft has released new UNIX\Linux packages for both SCOM 2019 and SCOM 2022 regarding to OMI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability coded CVE-2024-21334  It is stated that;  “A remote unauthenticated attacker could access the OMI instance from the Internet and send specially crafted requests to trigger a use-after-free vulnerability.”  And as an … Read more

SCOM 2022 “Failed to find a matching agent kit to install” error

In SCOM, monitoring cross-platform is almost a straightforward process when you configure the environment as explained in the documentation. You rarely have issues when discovering, installing, and monitoring the Linux agents and mostly the problem becomes agent-based, such as accounts, sudo elevation, hostname, or the firewall. This sometimes changes when there are new announcements like … Read more