Obviously the product team has received some feedback in the past on the performance of the SCOM console. It is not a secret this is not the fastest tool out there when opening it, changing views or refreshing even. This is the most apparent in larger e…
In SCOM 2012 there was a difference between Certified devices and generic devices. When you added a network device to SCOM it would show up as on of both. The certified devices had additional monitoring applied to them such as Processor and Memory monit…
With this post I am trying to give an overview of the new features in SCOM 2016 they have added currently.
A number of features were added in early Technical Preview Releases, such as Scheduled Maintenance Mode. I will cover those in the posts linked…
In SCOM 2012 R2 we were able to monitor up to 500 Unix/Linux agents per management server or about 100 through a gateway. To be honest I think that was already stretching it, unless the amount of workflows was kept to a minimum.
In SCOM 2016 work has…
This blog post will introduce the new SCOM 2016 feature of Management Pack Tuning. It is meant to use alert data from SCOM to determine where tuning may be beneficial.
The way we often used to tune out alerts and management packs was by a few methods…
We waited for this for a while now. But Windows 2016 TP5 and System Center 2016 TP5 are now available for downloading. This is a screenshot from the MSDN downloads site:
Good luck playing with the new releases B)
I have started with the SCOM 201…
This blog post discussed one of the new features in SCOM 2016 which is the Management Pack Updates and Recommendations. Now this feature addition was introduced I think in SCOM 2016 TP4 preview version already, but I will discuss it now anyway.
All S…