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…
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…
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…
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…
I always copied the changed profile to the default profile, also in Vista. But in Windows 7 it is simply greyed out so you cannot do this anymore.
After some research I found out it is not even supported to do it this way.
This article describes h…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Another community management pack that deserves a mention is the Green Machine mp. Yet another mp made by Cameron Fuller. At some point you would want to reset the health state of a machine back to green for troubleshooting purposes or if something wen…