Bob Cornelissen 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
As stated in my previous post System Center 2016 products (SCOM, DPM, VMM, Orch) came with SCOM Update Rollup 6. For SCOM this means a number of things got fixed, See the excerpt from the KB article below: Improvements and issues that are fixed Application pool crashes and SharePoint application crashes because of APM agent … Read more
A few days ago System Center 2016 Update Rollup 6 was released. The products receiving UR6 are: SCOM, DPM, VMM, Orchestrator. The link below has the links to all 4 product UR6 pages: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4469613/description-of-update-rollup-6-for-microsoft-system-center-2016 I will make a separate post about the SCOM specific update. Bob Cornelissen
In the past years we have had a few guest blog posts on this blog from people outside of BICTT. Friends from the community. From today we will welcome some regular posts from a friend Gourav Kumar. Last few years he has been working on SCOM, Log Analytics, Azure, PowerShell and more. As always all … Read more
A few months ago SCOM 1807 was released at the end of July 2018. It was a release we had been waiting for due to some fixes and due to some features. Let’s discuss a few things about this release according to this agenda: • New Features in SCOM 1807 • Issues Fixed in SCOM … Read more
On 3 May 2018 we are going to do a webinar about SCOM 1801. The webinar is hosted by Savision, and there are two main presenters. These are Aditya Goda from the SCOM product team and myself Bob Cornelissen. Main topics: HTML5 Dashboards Linux Monitoring Improvements Migration Planning and the new “Semi-Annual Channel Release” Model … Read more
A week ago I found that one of the WordPress sites (Web App) I was hosting in one of my Azure subscriptions stopped to work. It was giving a database connection error. After clicking through a bit more so I would get the actual error I had something like this: We were able to connect … Read more
The last few weeks we have been working on an ebook about SCOM Reporting requested by Savision. Today the final version of the ebook has been released to the website and can be downloaded. There is also an extra in there, which is a new management pack containing a better SLA report, which works well … Read more
Bob will be presenting 2 sessions at ExpertsLive US 2018 February 8-9 in Houston Texas. We will do one presentation as sponsor session on behalf of Savision on the topic of SCOM Reporting and visualization on Thursday. You will see more on this subject coming in the next few days by the way so stay … Read more