Bob Cornelissen On Wednesday 29 May 2019 Silect will host another SCOM MP University day filled with monitoring goodness! This will be between 10 AM and 5 PM CEST. It will be recorded and broadcast again on 5 June 2019 from 9 AM to 4 PM EDT. This has always been a great day of monitoring goodness … Read more
A few months ago for ExpertsLive India we organised a little blog writing contest, where the winner would receive a prize in Amazon gift cards. This was for the attendees of ExpertsLive India. The received posts have been evaluated and the winner has been declared by a jury lead by John Barreto (MVP): Our winner … Read more
A few hours ago SCOM 2016 UR7 was released at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4492182/update-rollup-7-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager The main list of fixes is: Fixed: Cannot use SQLOleDB.dll to probe databases like Oracle/MySQL. Improved the performance of SCOM console in listing the groups. Operations Manager grooms out the alert history only on an alert closure. Agents by Health State report shows duplicate … Read more
A few hours ago the System Center 2016 Update Rollup 7 was released. It contains updates for DPM SCOM Orchestrator Service Manager SMA VMM You can find the links to the specific articles for each product here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4496928/description-of-update-rollup-7-for-microsoft-system-center-2016
Today another guest blog. This time by my friend Sameer Mhaisekar from India. Introduction: It is often required to be able to look at all your subscriptions and how they’re all tangled together with subscribers and channels, especially when you’ve inherited a SCOM management Group from someone else and you’re trying to explore the environment. … Read more
Note: This is an entry for the TopQore Blog Wiriting contest for ExpertsLive India. It is written by Gourav Kumar from India. Introduction In this blog post we will explore how to monitor Azure long running backup and trigger an alert on them with the help of Log Analytics. Before going to start, I like … Read more
Note: This is an entry for the TopQore Blog Wiriting contest for ExpertsLive India. It is written by Mohammed Ziaurrahman from Hyderabad in India. Introduction An application network is a way to connect applications, data, and devices to utilize some or all of the assets and data on the network. Instead of utilizing point-to-point connections or … Read more
For the ExpertsLive India event we at TopQore opened up a blog writing contest for all registered attendants to participate in a blog writing contest. The winner will be chosen by a jury headed by CDM MVP John Barreto and awarded with two Amazon India gift cards! This is a fun opportunity to take a … Read more
Another case of a SCOM investigation we got involved in was about the SQL team trying to monitor SQL Analysis Services (SSAS) using SCOM. Management pack was installed, agent deployed, proxy enabled, runas accounts arranged, rights arranged for the runas account. And nothing found on those SQL servers. In the meantime this case was already … Read more
At a customer of ours we were investigating a case where an old SCCM server which was removed a while ago kept getting back into SCOM. What we saw was a server object which was not an agent. Upon investigation we found these were instances of an SCCM roles, such as a distribution point. So … Read more