SCOM 2012 CEP meeting experiences – part 2

As stated in the previous post, there was a SCOM CEP meeting last week which I wanted to discuss as I am enthusiastic about the CEP program and even more about the upcoming product and its possibilities. So lets continue with what Justin Incarnato discu…

SCOM 2012 CEP meeting experiences – part 1

Last week was the first meeting of the SCOM 2012 Community Evaluation Program (also called CEP) with Adam Hall and Justin Incarnato doing the honors for getting everybody involved and excited on this specific program. As the kickoff of the CEP program f…

SCOM Trick 49 – monitoring CentOS

Cross platform monitoring in SCOM is a good thing. It has been a good step to include it and in many environments we have come across machines that we could now monitor with SCOM 2007 R2 (or higher). A fair number of Unix and Linux distributions which a…

SCOM Trick 48 – Certificate validation

Certificates can play an important role in SCOM when monitoring machines in non-trusted domains and workgroups. During the past years we have seen all kinds of things that can go wrong with certificates, especially during the initial stages. Mostly beca…

SCOM 2007 R2 CU5

Hello all, Just a quick post while I am still on vacation…
SCOM 2007 R2 CU5 has been released.
Be sure to first read the KB article completely. Check for known issues (in the kb article). Read before you try.. and try before you take it into product…

SCOM 2012 beta first install

SO, following the great news of the release of the public beta for SCOM 2012 I thought to give my first install of this product a go. I will list the things I have done and ran into:
Windows and roles install
Installed a clean machine windows 2008…

SCOM 2012 Beta is out

Alright!, just read some good news from Justin Incarnato over at the SCOM Blog…
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/07/19/system-center-operations-manager-2012-beta-is-live.aspx
The SCOM 2012 public beta is out and ready for download a…

Going on holiday

I will be out on holidays for a few weeks. Not sure if I will be able to post or reply a lot during that time. Almost sure it will be more quiet over here during that time as I can imagine my agenda gets filled very fast while I am there (using ad-hoc p…

SCOM Trick 47 – SCC Health Check reports

While working with SCOM you will want to know more about what is happening to your monitoring system. This could also be for reasons of troubleshooting, but also in order to catch problems before you will actually be affected by them.
Oskar Landman and…