This is an article written by our friend Stoyan Chalakov. We found out a few months ago we had been researching the same strange installation issues of SCOM at customers of ours. We discussed that researching and finding the solution took a long while, because you need to find the exact issue keywords. So it … Read more
On 26 March 2020 at 15:00 CET (Amsterdam time) we hosted a webinar titled “Monitoring in a Hybrid World” with as speaker… Bob Cornelissen. I have been getting a lot of questions the last year about monitoring in a hybrid world as I would call it. Questions such as… Can I monitor Cloud resources and … Read more
Had an interesting case today where we were implementing Update Rollup 8 for SCOM 2016 on a management server and it took very long. It took so long that we decided to kill it and start it again. And again it seemed to hang. So reboot and try again. We had difficulty finding the … Read more
Hello fellow SCOM admins,
Some time ago I have blogged about monitoring an older version of RedHat 6 with SCOM 2019. Using an older management pack that usually comes with SCOM 2016, we were able to discover RedHat 6 and monitor it properly.
However, with the release of SCOM 2019 UR1 there were some changes. The availability of the Universal UNIX/Linux management pack would make UNIX/Linux a lot easier, as less management packs are required for monitoring multiple versions of UNIX/Linux. That leaves us with the following question; would that imply the Universal UNIX/Linux management pack, is universal enough to support RedHat 6?
Time to find out! For the sake of this example, let’s have a look how this would go in a semi-fresh installation of SCOM 2019, without UR1, and what management packs are there to support RedHat 6.
Today Microsoft released UR1 for System Center 2019. I created a post about that earlier today. This post is specific for the SCOM product. There are a number of things you need to know for this release and I will include links to bits and pieces below in the text. There are a few informational … Read more
Today Microsoft released Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2019. This includes updates for SCOM, Orchestrator, SCSM, DPM and VMM. This page includes links to the separate KB articles for each of the mentioned System Center products with specifics. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4533413/update-rollup-1-for-system-center-2019 I will write a separate post for the SCOM 2019 UR1 updates in a few … Read more
Since years I have been using the PKI Certificates MP made by Raphael Burri to monitor certificates on servers with SCOM agents. Most often my customers use the basic functionality of the pack, being the certificates in the personal store of the computer itself. Most of the time we find certificates with issues, such as … Read more
The new version of the SQL management pack for SCOM has become available at the close of the year. Thank you for the present! The new version agnostic pack has version 7.0.20.0 and is compatible with SQL 2019 as well. So it covers SQL versions from 2012 and up without the need to create overrides … Read more
After proudly presenting a non-functional reporting environment in my own home lab while giving SCOM training at a client, it was time to examine what exactly was going wrong. The next time I’d like to show my audience the usefulness of certain reports. Let’s face it – certain reports are irreplaceable if you want to … Read more
We ran into a problem a few days ago while turning on encryption for SQL for a SQL cluster. After turning on encryption for the server we had to restart the SQL service for the database engine. And it failed to start with some strange message. A reboot failed to help. SO we started to … Read more