Check out my friend Walter Eikenboom’s entry on what the SPN should look like for your SCOM 2007 R2 implementations. It raises many questions for many customers and this is a good way to explain what’s going on and what to check for.
http://weblogwall…
There are so many things that can go wrong when trying to push a SCOM agent to machine. And of course my list of favorites grew so large that I had to go and find the article by Kevin Holman again. Just to make sure… here it is:
http://blogs.technet.c…
Jeff Wettlaufer announced a week ago that SCCM R3 is next on the SCCM list 🙂
This new itteration has a strong focus on adding possibilities for power management on clients. However this is not the only thing that will be added. There will also be per…
I just attended the System Center Influencers Live Meeting session. It was the first session by and for the group.
A quick link to the announcement: http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/09/08/don-t-miss-end-to-end-monitoring-of-it-servic…
I came across a blogpost from Derek Harkin about port monitoring from a text file in SCOM. It essentially makes it possible to use a text file to type what machine you want to reach and at what port and it will check that every ten minutes and display a…
So, I have a lot of catching up to do. After the holidays and the first hectic weeks at work I am finally coming round to blogging about what I find interesting. I will also refer to a lot of blogs written by others because I think they are worth it. And…
Kristopher Bash has a great blog over here and his newest project was an advanced SNMP monitoring pack for SCOM R2 monitoring Cisco devices. It is fun to follow the development proces through a number of his blog postings you can find on his blog.
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Dell released a new version of their management packs for SCOM.
Here is the link: http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R237719&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=342171
Some fixes and…
A new KB Article has been released for a SCOM agent or server with an error 623. One or more management servers and their managed devices are dimmed in the Operations Manager Console of Operations Manager 2007. The article can be found here: http://suppo…
Today I was upgrading a number of SCOM agents from SP1 to R2 version (using split monitoring at first).
After the installation the agents refused to start.
After a manual try on the machines to start the service I got the following error:
Windows…