In SCOM, monitoring cross-platform is almost a straightforward process when you configure the environment as explained in the documentation. You rarely have issues when discovering, installing, and monitoring the Linux agents and mostly the problem becomes agent-based, such as accounts, sudo elevation, hostname, or the firewall. This sometimes changes when there are new announcements like … Read more
Introduction Bob here. I have asked my friends at NiCE if they could write a piece about Log File monitoring for this blog. They have had a Log File monitoring management pack for SCOM since many years and it is a great solution. It is for free, and I know several customers who have used … Read more
In this blog post I am writing about the rights a Delegated SCOM Admin has versus the Full SCOM Admin. It started out as a question from one of my long time customers, who are looking to use SCOM 2022 and the Delegated Admin role to narrow down the rights of daily SCOM Admins to … 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
Microsoft has released UR2 for SCOM 2022 today. The article is found here Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2022 Operations Manager – Microsoft Support on the System Center Blog. This will bring the KB5031649 version to 10.22.10280.0. This time we see a number of fixes, improvements, additions for Linux monitoring (newer distros supported). UR2 … Read more
Hello friends! Have you noticed that Silect MP University is around the corner again? It is over 5 hours of content about SCOM and management packs and SCOM Managed Instance by some of the most well-known SCOM speakers in the community. On Thursday 19 October 2023, we are gearing up for this again. Make sure … Read more
As you might be aware, nowadays we see more and more AI generated content and helpers. Microsoft often calls those Copilot. There are a fair number of those out there already. One of those is the copilot for helping to write code through GitHub. It is not just to write code, it can also be … Read more
Some exciting news to share with you today! As many of you may remember, back in May 2022, Microsoft launched Azure Monitor HCI Insights for public preview. And after incorporating valuable feedback from the customers during the preview phase, Azure Monitor HCI Insights is now generally available (GA)!For those who haven’t heard before, what exactly … Read more
SCOM gives you the powerful ability to customize monitoring applied according to your exact requirements. Management Packs in SCOM contain the default and effective monitoring logic within them and are highly customizable. This is also the reason why it is absolutely crucial that we manage them effectively.Whatever default workflows and corresponding parameters sealed management packs … Read more