TopQore Blog - Part 15

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.

SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 1 (UR1) what is included

April 27, 2020February 4, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

Today Microsoft released UR1 for System Center 2019. I created a post about that earlier today. This post is specific for the SCOM product. There are a number of things you need to know for this release and I will include links to bits and pieces below in the text. There are a few informational … Read more

System Center 2019 UR1 is released

April 27, 2020February 4, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

Today Microsoft released Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2019. This includes updates for SCOM, Orchestrator, SCSM, DPM and VMM. This page includes links to the separate KB articles for each of the mentioned System Center products with specifics. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4533413/update-rollup-1-for-system-center-2019 I will write a separate post for the SCOM 2019 UR1 updates in a few … Read more

Windows 2008 and Windows 7 out of support

April 27, 2020January 15, 2020 by Bob Cornelissen

Since yesterday Windows 7 and Windows 2008 (and R2 and R2 SP1) went out of Extended support (If you even had that…). To be honest, we had a good run with those operating systems and they served us well. We hope you have migrated away from these toward Windows 10 and Windows 2016/2019. I am … Read more

New version PKI Certificates monitoring pack for SCOM

April 27, 2020December 31, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

Since years I have been using the PKI Certificates MP made by Raphael Burri to monitor certificates on servers with SCOM agents. Most often my customers use the basic functionality of the pack, being the certificates in the personal store of the computer itself. Most of the time we find certificates with issues, such as … Read more

New version SQL Management Pack 7.0.20.0 available

April 27, 2020December 29, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

The new version of the SQL management pack for SCOM has become available at the close of the year. Thank you for the present! The new version agnostic pack has version 7.0.20.0 and is compatible with SQL 2019 as well. So it covers SQL versions from 2012 and up without the need to create overrides … Read more

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

SQL service not starting after turning SSL encryption on

April 27, 2020December 5, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

We ran into a problem a few days ago while turning on encryption for SQL for a SQL cluster. After turning on encryption for the server we had to restart the SQL service for the database engine. And it failed to start with some strange message. A reboot failed to help. SO we started to … Read more

New System Center Visual Studio Authoring Extensions available

April 27, 2020November 28, 2019 by Bob Cornelissen

If you have been using the Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) for SCOM, the last situation was that the VSAE were supported up to Visual Studio 2017. Now since a few days there is a new download link where we can see that Visual Studio 2019 is now also supported with the new version of … 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

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