When Microsoft releases a new UNIX\Linux agent version and you upgrade the agents, it is possible that the SCOM Console shows upgrade as done but the versions may revert back to the previous version. We will look into why this happens and how to solve it. In low privileged environments, defined UNIX\Linux accounts in your … Read more
Hello friends from the SCOM and monitoring community! I want to take this opportunity to call out a few leaning opportunity regarding both SCOM and also Cloud technologies, so bare with me. First of all, TopQore offers a range of SCOM certifications and trainings, from Operator to Administrator and soon Specialist. You can find the … Read more
SCOM monitoring evolves constantly, sometimes through versions and features of the product and sometimes through the Management Packs. Today I want to talk about monitoring certificates and CRL’s for Windows servers and PKI. For years this was covered through a community management pack created by Raphael Burri and is maintained on Github over here. I … Read more
If you are using SCOM MMA agents, and you have them connected to Azure Monitor Log Analytics, you will want to take a look at this. The SCOM agents used to use SSL V1 to connect up, and this older version of communication will be closed on 1 November 2022. Meaning that from that point … Read more
Hello SCOM enthusiasts. This is an announcement that we will be doing a webinar with our friends from SCOMathon about SCOM 2022 migration. On Tuesday 27 September at 4 PM CEST, we will be presenting a webinar for the SCOMathon Coffee Break sessions. The topic is going to be about SCOM 2022 Migration, for which … Read more
Hello my monitoring friends, I am doing a quick 1-question poll. What version(s) of SCOM are you currently using in production? https://forms.office.com/r/m34zpibxCw It is anonymous, multiple selections are possible if you run multiple versions. The picture below takes you to this link as well. I am asking this as preparation for a webinar. Much appreciated … Read more
This is just a small but important message if you are in a migration or in a situation where you have multiple SCOM management groups of different versions. When you update the SCOM Console on your server or workstation to SCOM 2022 Console, you can not use it to connect to down-level SCOM management groups … Read more
In SCOM 2022 there is now a change again to the options to closing an alert from an unhealthy monitor. Let me first give some background what is going on here. In SCOM 2012/2016, when we had alerts that we wanted to close, we could simply close them. This is alright for Rules. But for … Read more
I just noticed a post by Blake Drumm, that he has released a tool to read/adjust the SCOM Datawarehouse grooming settings and wanted to share with you. As a SCOM Admin or a consultant installing/configuring SCOM or troubleshooting things, it is a good thing to check your database at a somewhat regular interval. Just to … Read more
As many of you know, I have been trying to help people in the SCOM and monitoring communities by answering questions, writing blogs, books, webinars and all kinds of content to increase the use and effectiveness of monitoring environments anywhere in the world. Part of my work, both community and as a consultant has always … Read more