Bob Cornelissen SCOM monitoring evolves constantly, sometimes through versions and features of the product and sometimes through the Management Packs. Today I want to talk about monitoring certificates and CRL’s for Windows servers and PKI. For years this was covered through a community management pack created by Raphael Burri and is maintained on Github over here. I … Read more
If you are using SCOM MMA agents, and you have them connected to Azure Monitor Log Analytics, you will want to take a look at this. The SCOM agents used to use SSL V1 to connect up, and this older version of communication will be closed on 1 November 2022. Meaning that from that point … Read more
A few days ago, Microsoft announced changes to the docs and learning experience. As you know I am a big advocate for continued learning and for connecting with the community. If you go to Learn.microsoft.com you will see the combined experience, between learning and certifications, Q&A forums, Documentation, Showcasing, Examples and more: Note: Picture taken … Read more
Hello SCOM enthusiasts. This is an announcement that we will be doing a webinar with our friends from SCOMathon about SCOM 2022 migration. On Tuesday 27 September at 4 PM CEST, we will be presenting a webinar for the SCOMathon Coffee Break sessions. The topic is going to be about SCOM 2022 Migration, for which … Read more
Hello friends. This is an announcement that we will see another HackaSCOM this year in 2022! Dates: 29 and 30 November 2022 Organization: SCOMathon Judges: Stoyan Chalakov, Bob Cornelissen, tbd… Contestants: Come on and take the challenge to take on several community experts into building a Management pack in record time to solve some challenge … Read more
Lately a good friend of mine, Cyril Azoulay, ran into an interesting issue while in-place upgrading a relatively recent SCOM 2019 setup to 2022 version. Since his blogs are mainly in French, he allowed me to write down his case over here in my own words (since his blog is not out yet). Merci Cyril! … Read more
A few days ago Microsoft released a hotfix for SCOM 2019 UR4. When applying SCOM 2019 UR4, the SCOM console might become slow in some screens. Especially in the group operations view, where a view got added. And now it got removed again. The hotfix only applies after you installed UR4. It is only for … Read more
Yesterday System Center 2019 UR4 was released as can be seen in another post on this blog from today. This includes the update for SCOM 2019 as well as KB5013427. I have been testing this update to see if we get any immediate problems in our test environment and have not had any problems yet … Read more
Last night UR4 was released for System Center 2019. This includes patches for SCOM, SCSM, SCDPM and SCVMM. These updates add supportability for Windows 2022 and 11 (on guest/agent side), .Net Framework 4.8, some security fixes, some bug fixes and some UI improvements. See the article by the Product Group here: System Center Update Rollup … Read more
Hello my monitoring friends, I am doing a quick 1-question poll. What version(s) of SCOM are you currently using in production? https://forms.office.com/r/m34zpibxCw It is anonymous, multiple selections are possible if you run multiple versions. The picture below takes you to this link as well. I am asking this as preparation for a webinar. Much appreciated … Read more