Well, I have spent the last two days fighting SQL to get a customers SCOM environment running again. Somehow a few weeks ago their SCOM environment broke due to the databases going down. Seemed something went wrong with backups and the log files filled…
SCOM 2016 UR3 has been released and contain some awaited fixes. You can find the KB article here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-za/help/4016126/update-rollup-3-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Download location for the files:…
Starting with version of Savision Live Maps version 8.5 they added a new feature called Service Health Index. Let us investigate what it does. Those who have been using Live Maps the last few years know about the Services monitoring, which basically is…
The new version 4.20 of NiCE DB2 Management Pack has been released! New with this release • Feature: Support of DB2 BLU Acceleration • Feature: Monitoring of InDoubt Transactions • Security: Support of DB2 restrictive databases • Security: Support of…
Recently I had a customer where the SCOM web console application pool would be crashing every 15 minutes (2 servers in this case). This was on a SCOM 2016 instance on a Windows 2012 R2 server. The error message we got was (the process id is a different…
At one of my customers they had a problem deploying SCOM agents through a script on Linux servers. They had a number of Red Hat 6 servers and all went well. On the Red Hat 7 servers however the agent refused to install. Also through a push of the agent…
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Today I was doing a quick installation of the Savision 8.2 Live Maps Unity Portal. Downloaded the self-extracting executable from the website and of course arranged a license key. While running the installer I selected the Express setup which just pushe…
I thought I would take a different approach to thinking about how to make a SCOM monitoring project a success. It is not about technical details or designs this time, but about a way to bring business and IT together into monitoring business related ser…
In my previous post which introduced SCOM 2016 Features – Network Monitoring MP Generator I have shown you how to use the command syntax of the tool and why it was created. Now it is time for an example.
The idea:
Have fun monitoring some network…