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
Last night Microsoft released UR5 for SCOM 2019. As a second remark, also DPM 2019 UR5 got released recently. And VMM 2019 also has a UR5 released. Back to SCOM now. SCOM 2019 UR5 is KB5025123 and can be found here https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5025123 The file downloads can be found in the catalog at Microsoft Update Catalog … Read more
We did a webinar about ChatGPT last time and we wanted to dive one deeper into combining the power of AI and ChatGPT with our other favorite product – SCOM – and see how that works out. Lucky our friends at GripMatix created something for that, so let’s investigate. When: Wednesday 12 April 2023 at … Read more
I hope you are all aware that GripMatix makes SCOM management packs for monitoring Citrix solutions. This has been a gaping hole for a few years since the pack from comtrade was bought by Citrix and next basically stopped. Since a while, we can now use the GripMatix packs for this and I highly encourage … Read more