Many times it can happen that you are looking at stale data in the SCOM console. For instance you click on an alert and it gives you an error, saying that it has already been closed (in more difficult terms). Sometimes you see an entry in a list that sh…
Have seen a thread today on the TechNet forums about the SCOM Console crashing when running a task. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagergeneral/thread/c339c327-1e7d-412b-9d1a-5ae0b8a2e0f8/#9ae059f9-f881-4fa1-9d42-fceed4c4ef…
As I have said in SCOM Trick 7, the use of maintenance mode is important. But not always will somebody use the normal SCOM interface (or web interface) to start maintenance mode right before they start working on the machine. To be honest a lot of the t…
One of the questions that get asked after people start using maintenance mode in SCOM, especially in bigger environments, is to provide an overview of who put something into maintenance mode.
Somebody wrote a management pack for this!
Maintenance Mo…
One of the great features in SCOM is the ability to place a machine/device or part of it in maintenance mode whenever you are working on the machine and you do not want it to generate alerts while you are doing your stuff. For instance during a planned…
A question that pops up a lot is if we can monitor VMware with SCOM. There are actually several options that deliver different levels of monitoring.
Veeam Nworks. A very complete third party SCOM add-on.
http://www.veeam.com/vmware-microsoft-esx-mon…
My opinion is still that books are a great resource to learn about a product. Also for SCOM there are a few around:
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed
A very complete book about SCOM, written by MVP’s
System Center Operations Manag…
What can you do when you want to learn about SCOM? Well there are a lot of possibilities.
Read books about SCOM (see SCOM Trick 5)
Read the product documentation (see SCOM Trick 1)
Watch webcasts about SCOM
Watch the SCOM superflow. For mo…
Once in a while you will have a question. Something will not work as expected. You discover a bug or SCOM does not react as expected. You might be looking for something special. Well first of all I would suggest to check out the official documentation a…
So what would be the first thing you do after installing SCOM or when you find a new management pack? For most that would be to load the management pack and see what happens. This is usually followed with a lot of alerts coming in and trying to find out…