On 3 May 2018 we are going to do a webinar about SCOM 1801. The webinar is hosted by Savision, and there are two main presenters. These are Aditya Goda from the SCOM product team and myself Bob Cornelissen. Main topics: HTML5 Dashboards Linux Monitoring Improvements Migration Planning and the new “Semi-Annual Channel Release” Model … Read more
We have an upcoming webinar with Savision this week featuring Microsoft MVP, Bob “SCOM-Bob” Cornelissen, Microsoft MVP, John Barretto and Savision’s Support Manager, Chris Malay. The webinar will guide you through the most important SCOM reporting features and take your SCOM reporting skills to the next level. Here is a quick summary of what we … Read more
After creating a web check monitor in SCOM using the Web Application Availability Monitoring template or the one for Web Application Transaction Monitoring you might get errors on the monitored web pages you did not expect. Default error codes like 400/401 and such are relatively normal status codes, but there are more things which may … Read more
Just a quick note to let you know NiCE is hosting a webinar about monitoring Oracle showing off tips and tricks and their upcoming 4.10 release of the Oracle management pack for SCOM. It will be Thursday 30 November 2017. For more information and registration visit their page below: NiCE Oracle MP 4.10 Release Webinar … Read more
SCOM 2016 Update Rollup 4 has just been released. It has some fixes in there we have been waiting for a while. A list taken from the KB article is below. Scroll down for the link to the KB article. When a log file is being monitored by SCOM, Monagent locks the file and won’t … Read more
New versions of the DHCP management packs for DHCP 2016 and DHCP 2012 and 2012 R2 were released earlier. There are a number of fixes implemented. The 2016 version can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54587 And the 2012 and 2012 R2 version can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39062
The last few days we have been working to move my blog over from the b2evolution platform I have been using for the last 8 years or so to a WordPress based platform. We are actually working on the company website as well, which was hosted on a custom created platform. The main URL for … Read more
This Thursday, I will be hosting Savision’s upcoming webinar ‘IT is not SCOMplicated with OMS’. Savision’s Technical Sales Manager, Justin Boerrigter will be joining me in a session focused on the new service mapping feature in OMS and how this fits…
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…