HackaSCOM 2021 combines a conventional hackathon with SCOM to bring together some of the greatest SCOM experts in a head-to-head 24-hour challenge. On 16 and 17 November 2021 there will be sessions to start and end the HackaSCOM and in the 24 hours in between several experts will be going nuts behind their keyboards creating some … Read more
Using SCOM or Azure to monitor or manage Linux/Unix systems? Read on! Recently a number of serious vulnerabilities have been found in the OMI Framework, which is used as underlying management infrastructure tooling for managing and monitoring Linux/Unix systems. Examples are the SCOM and Log Analytics agents for these systems in Azure and on-prem. And … Read more
When selecting the isolate users options as shown below in IIS there is an unwritten requirement to put all user folders under the FTP site root directory in a folder called “LocalUser”. This can cause issues, let me explain why… When enabling this setting it will lock users into a directory named as their username … Read more
This is a continuation of the blog post series about using Microsoft monitoring tools to monitor a Philips Hue Bridge as an example of how to monitor an API based device. To jump back to the first page of the series and the table of contents, click here. Getting access to Philips Hue Bridge … Read more
This is a continuation of the blog post series about using Microsoft monitoring tools to monitor a Philips Hue Bridge as an example of how to monitor an API based device. To jump back to the first page of the series and the table of contents, click here. Introduction and Device Setup So, we are … Read more
This is a post about using Microsoft monitoring tooling to monitor a device with an API. It will be a series of posts, due to different things to take care of and different ways to monitor and display data. I will be using part of my home automation for this, which is a Philips Hue … Read more
Often it can be useful for other teams and departments to edit and run their own Azure automation runbooks, however, this creates a challenge – permissions. Runbooks live and are managed from within Azure Automation accounts which are in turn connected to log analytics workspaces and their associated agents. Both automation accounts and log analytics … Read more
While working for a client, the seemingly simple task of installing the SCOM Linux agent on a Red Hat 7 server, suddenly became a bit less easy. After successfully attempting to discover a server and try to manage it as well, the following error previously unknown to me was presented: Failed to install kit. Exit … Read more
In the month of May 2021 the Microsoft MVP’s were challenged to participate voluntarily in a cloud skills challenge. During time of the Microsoft Ignite events there are more often learning challenges for the whole public, which means going through a number of Microsoft Learn modules within a certain time. Usually this is about 8 … Read more
As you have read in one of my previous posts, TopQore is a sponsor and speaker at SCOMathon June 2021 edition. It the biggest event dedicated to SCOM and Microsoft monitoring solutions of the year. We surely hope you have registered for the event and will check out the great line-up of presenters and sessions … Read more