Yesterday Microsoft announced the General Availability (GA) of the SCOM Agent and Gateway extensions to deploy agents and establish communication for the agents in Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance (SCOM MI). It uses Azure Arc to deploy and update the agent extensions and it can establish the connection trust that way as well. Challenges When … Read more
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
We are thrilled to hear Microsoft has announced System Center 2025, the next release of Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) will be GA (General Availability) in the fall of 2024. This schedule means that System Center 2025 will have updated versions of its System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), Service Manager (SM), System … Read more
I am happy to say that SCOMathon will be organized again this year. SCOMathon 2024 will be 22 May 2024 again as an online event. Sessions will span from early morning until late in the evening, so as many people worldwide can catch some good sessions from this on the day itself. 8 sessions, 2 … Read more
The SCOMeetup event will be organized by OpsLogix again in Gothenburg Sweden on 25 April 2024. It is a day of SCOM and monitoring content presented by speakers from Microsoft, TopQore, Silect, SquaredUp, Teqwave and of course OpsLogix. This is an on-site event, and it is free. If you happen to be in or around … Read more
In SCOM, monitoring cross-platform is almost a straightforward process when you configure the environment as explained in the documentation. You rarely have issues when discovering, installing, and monitoring the Linux agents and mostly the problem becomes agent-based, such as accounts, sudo elevation, hostname, or the firewall. This sometimes changes when there are new announcements like … Read more
Introduction Bob here. I have asked my friends at NiCE if they could write a piece about Log File monitoring for this blog. They have had a Log File monitoring management pack for SCOM since many years and it is a great solution. It is for free, and I know several customers who have used … Read more
In this blog post I am writing about the rights a Delegated SCOM Admin has versus the Full SCOM Admin. It started out as a question from one of my long time customers, who are looking to use SCOM 2022 and the Delegated Admin role to narrow down the rights of daily SCOM Admins to … Read more
Many of you are reading this because you are involved with Microsoft monitoring solutions. For several years Microsoft and part of the community have been looking at extending the SCOM functionality with over two decades of management pack know-how to the cloud. You will have heard the code name Aquila used a few times, and … Read more
Working on making SCOM a future-proof monitoring concept from the cloud. We have been talking about a concept called Aquila for several years. Many of you would have heard about that. It is SCOM monitoring from the cloud, a cloud-SCOM. And since about a year, we have been looking at a preview version called Azure … Read more