Bob Cornelissen

This blog is run by Bob Cornelissen, a System Center enthusiast for a number of years now and managing consultant for TopQore (formerly BICTT). I work daily with SCOM in designing, implementing, configuring and extending this great product. Also I work with SCVMM, SCDPM, Azure Monitor Log Analytics products and a lot of MS Server technologies including Azure Cloud. I am very honoured to receive the MVP award in 2012 to 2020 and the MCC award in 2011 + 2012 for SCOM and System Center. Author of the Mastering SCOM 2012 book.

Message Queuing management packs released

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So the Message Queuing management packs for version 4 and 5 have been released. I know this is old news for some of you, as these MPs have been available for the last 2 weeks almost ;). I recently got a question as to what these versions are.
W…

Memory usage SCOM agent for linux

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 We had a chance the other week to understand the memory usage by SCOM cross plat agents for Red Hat linux and I wanted to share this info with you. The take away by the way is that the agent is not using much memory.The case:After deploying…

Discovering virtual machines with SCOM

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Just thought to post on a management pack that has been around for some time, posted by my friend Pete Zerger. On Windows boxes it not only discovers if it is a windows virtual machine (hyper-v for instance), but also if it is a vmware guest. Thi…

Savision enthusiasm

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Last week I visited Savision head quarters in the Netherlands.
Was great to see them again and talk about new things to come.
I can’t wait to see and get the new releases of software coming from these guys.
Of course there will be a new ve…

SCOM R2 sizing helper is updated

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Sorry for the delay, but I just wanted to mention that the SCOM R2 sizing helper has had an update about 2 weeks ago. You can get the Operations Manager 2007 R2 sizing helper here.
I use these a lot as they help with getting basic sizing recom…

SCOM R2 Unleashed books update

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I was just looking through the technet forums and saw an updated post from Kerrie Meyler, the lead writer of the SCOM Unleashed books.
This is an excerpt from the latest post in the thread:
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I am now able to conf…

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