Jalasoft released the new Xian SNMP Device Simulator v4.
This is a grrrrreat SNMP network device simulation tool which was and still is free of charge. It is great for instance for playing around with network monitoring in SCOM. I have been playing w…
As announced a month ago the UR2 update rollup for SCOM 2012 SP1 was released. One of the known issues of this update was that the gateway servers did not get their agent distribution folders updated. This was because there were no fixes for the bits of…
This was one highly requested MP that we have been waiting for. The Exchange 2013 Management pack for SCOM is now released. It works on SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012. The released version today of this management pack is 15.00.0620.030
For those who kne…
If you are monitoring DPM 2012 through SCOM 2012 and you have multiple DPM servers setup you might want to gain more insight into the status of the backup service as a whole and point to the issues at hand from a central location. In that case I would l…
Yesterday the Windows Server Management Pack got a new update to version 6.0.7026.0 .
Changes in This Update
The April 2013 update (version 6.0.7026.0) of the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack contains the following changes:
Fixed a b…
A few weeks ago I posted an article about some of my lessons learned for SCOM 2012 SP1 command line installations. It contained a very long Lesson 4 talking about creation and placement and naming of mostly the Datawarehouse database. I discussed the di…
Released yesterday was the Update Rollup 2 for System Center 2012 SP1. Keep in mind this is not the one for System Center 2012 RTM version (got released yesterday as UR5), Only update rollups for SP1 below!
This release contains updates for: App Cont…
Yesterday Update ROllup 5 for System Center 2012 was released.
It contains fixes for VMM 2012 and SCOM 2012. Keep in mind that this does not include the 2012 SP1, who have their own set of update rollups. From the KB site:
Issues that are fixed in…
Great news! Veeam released the newest version of their SCOM 2012 management pack, what used to be known as Nworks, and is now called Veeam Management Pack. Version 6 is yet another big step forward in the evolution of this management pack.
The news r…
For one of my customers I have been fooling around with a clean SCOM 2012 SP1 install through command line. I ran into some issues and workarounds that you might want to be aware of. There are probably more to come, but I thought it better to post this…