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Installing a SCOM Linux agent on a server with multiple package managers

June 30, 2021June 29, 2021 by Martijn Weterings

While working for a client, the seemingly simple task of installing the SCOM Linux agent on a Red Hat 7 server, suddenly became a bit less easy. After successfully attempting to discover a server and try to manage it as well, the following error previously unknown to me was presented: Failed to install kit. Exit … Read more

Upgrade the backend of your SCOM 2019 environment to SQL 2019 CU7

October 13, 2020September 15, 2020 by Martijn Weterings

Important update 13/10/2020: Recently, the SQL 2019 CU7 update was taken offline due to several important issues. Although CU8 was released pretty much at the same time, there is no information to be found anymore about the support of SCOM 2019 for SQL 2019. After testing, it appeared that a clean installation of SCOM 2019 … Read more

SCOM 2019 UR2 new features

March 23, 2022August 6, 2020 by Martijn Weterings

As promised in our previous blog, now we’re zooming in a bit more on the most interesting changes that are to be found in SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 2. Our colleague Frank Wijten thoroughly tested the beta version of UR2 and examined all the fun that came with it, before he left for holiday. Now … Read more

Update Rollup 9 for Microsoft System Center 2016 is released!

August 9, 2020March 25, 2020 by Martijn Weterings

For those who were not able to migrate to System Center 2019 yet, Microsoft has released the 9th Update Rollup for System Center 2016.

So, can I monitor RedHat 6 with SCOM 2019 UR1’s Universal UNIX/Linux management pack?

April 27, 2020February 27, 2020 by Martijn Weterings

Hello fellow SCOM admins,
Some time ago I have blogged about monitoring an older version of RedHat 6 with SCOM 2019. Using an older management pack that usually comes with SCOM 2016, we were able to discover RedHat 6 and monitor it properly.
However, with the release of SCOM 2019 UR1 there were some changes. The availability of the Universal UNIX/Linux management pack would make UNIX/Linux a lot easier, as less management packs are required for monitoring multiple versions of UNIX/Linux. That leaves us with the following question; would that imply the Universal UNIX/Linux management pack, is universal enough to support RedHat 6?
Time to find out! For the sake of this example, let’s have a look how this would go in a semi-fresh installation of SCOM 2019, without UR1, and what management packs are there to support RedHat 6.

Reports are missing in SCOM – Event ID 31567

April 27, 2020December 16, 2019 by Martijn Weterings

After proudly presenting a non-functional reporting environment in my own home lab while giving SCOM training at a client, it was time to examine what exactly was going wrong. The next time I’d like to show my audience the usefulness of certain reports. Let’s face it – certain reports are irreplaceable if you want to … Read more

Monitoring Red Hat 6 with SCOM 2019

November 28, 2019 by Martijn Weterings

Lets first start this post with an introduction to the topic. At several of our customers and during several speaking engagements we encountered questions about if certain versions of Linux/Unix were supported or not for newer versions of SCOM (in today’s case the most common being Red Hat 6 on SCOM 2019). The simple answer is that it is … Read more