Yesterday Microsoft announced the General Availability (GA) of the SCOM Agent and Gateway extensions to deploy agents and establish communication for the agents in Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (SCOM MI). It uses Azure Arc to deploy and update the agent extensions and it can establish the connection trust that way as well. Challenges When … Read more
I am happy to say that SCOMathon will be organized again this year. SCOMathon 2024 will be 22 May 2024 again as an online event. Sessions will span from early morning until late in the evening, so as many people worldwide can catch some good sessions from this on the day itself. 8 sessions, 2 … Read more
Many of you are reading this because you are involved with Microsoft monitoring solutions. For several years Microsoft and part of the community have been looking at extending the SCOM functionality with over two decades of management pack know-how to the cloud. You will have heard the code name Aquila used a few times, and … Read more
Working on making SCOM a future-proof monitoring concept from the cloud. We have been talking about a concept called Aquila for several years. Many of you would have heard about that. It is SCOM monitoring from the cloud, a cloud-SCOM. And since about a year, we have been looking at a preview version called Azure … Read more
Hello friends from the SCOM and monitoring community! I want to take this opportunity to call out a few leaning opportunity regarding both SCOM and also Cloud technologies, so bare with me. First of all, TopQore offers a range of SCOM certifications and trainings, from Operator to Administrator and soon Specialist. You can find the … 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
When using Windows Admin Center to connect to servers, it can happen that a server pops up an error while connecting saying something like “The specified module ‘CimCmdLets’ was not loaded because no valid module file was found.” It happened to me with one of 2 identical servers, or which would be identical in theory … Read more
Using SCOM or Azure to monitor or manage Linux/Unix systems? Read on! Recently a number of serious vulnerabilities have been found in the OMI Framework, which is used as underlying management infrastructure tooling for managing and monitoring Linux/Unix systems. Examples are the SCOM and Log Analytics agents for these systems in Azure and on-prem. And … Read more
Often it can be useful for other teams and departments to edit and run their own Azure automation runbooks, however, this creates a challenge – permissions. Runbooks live and are managed from within Azure Automation accounts which are in turn connected to log analytics workspaces and their associated agents. Both automation accounts and log analytics … Read more
In the month of May 2021 the Microsoft MVP’s were challenged to participate voluntarily in a cloud skills challenge. During time of the Microsoft Ignite events there are more often learning challenges for the whole public, which means going through a number of Microsoft Learn modules within a certain time. Usually this is about 8 … Read more