Recently the SCOM team has been talking about some of the improvements and fixes they have been working on for the next release and we have been happy to help test these and give feedback on them. As of this writing, which is early July 2020, these have not been released yet. We expect them … Read more
A few days ago NiCE released their newer version V3.10 of the Active 365 management pack for monitoring Microsoft 365 and Office 365 components. For some highlights of new features check the list below: New with the NiCE Active 365 Management Pack 3.1 release New Service Level Reports for Microsoft 365 Services New Service Level … Read more
Today I was honoured to receive another Microsoft MVP award for Cloud and Datacenter Management. For me this is the 9th year and it feels very special indeed. For those asking what this MVP award is a quote from Microsoft MVP site at mvp.microsoft.com: “Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately … Read more
We are regularly getting questions about SCOM Gateways from customers, community and at events. What are they used for, when do we use them, how to do high availability with gateways, what about network and linux monitoring, common problems with gateways. Together with NiCE IT Management Solutions we are going to do a webinar about … Read more
This is a continuation of the SCOM Reporting blog post series. Today I want to talk a little bit about Availability and/or SLA/SLO reporting. Basically stakeholders for the monitoring often want to know if a server or application was UP during the last month/week/day. In SCOM this is defined by two items, the agent itself … Read more
Welcome to part 2 of my post about moving the TopQore blog, twice! Here in part 2 we will cover the 2020 move to Azure public cloud and putting the blog under our new subdomain. Come early 2020, BICTT is now TopQore and our blog is now on the old domain! We have two options … Read more
As part of the SCOM Reporting blog post series, we are talking about some of the useful reports. In this post we will have a look at the “SCOM Health Check Reports”. This is a set of reports created in the SCOM community, by Pete Zerger and Oskar Landman mainly. The current version can be … Read more
As part of the SCOM Reporting blog post series, we are talking about some of the useful reports. In this post we will have a look at the Operating System reports. There are a few to look at. First of all there are these types of folders relating to a version of Windows, but the … Read more
In this blog post series about SCOM reporting, this time I want to discuss a very useful report for SCOM Admins especially. For other stakeholders this will be less interesting. It is pure SCOM specific, but gives a LOT of information. The report I am talking about is the “Data Volume By Management Pack”. I … Read more
In a previous blog post in this SCOM Reporting blog post series I showed you an example of the Performance Detail report, where we went through selecting a time range, and made a series (graph) for a group of servers called Application XYZ Computers and we got the Processor Time % counter in there relevant … Read more