I am sure many of you know about BlueStripe solutions and how they connect to SCOM for application discovery and so on. Today we hear that Microsoft has aquired BlueStripe. I think this is a very good move indeed! Read the announcement here:
http://b…
For those of you wanting to provide the SCOM full console, possibly augmented with Savision Live Maps extensions, to desktops which are locked down, as a package. It might help B)
Case
We want to create a software package for the SCOM Console with S…
I had some problems with a State view in SCOM for a certain class, which used to work and now produced an error saying:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
So I opened up the Discovered Inventory view and selected the appropri…
I know this blog is all about my technical career in IT, with System Center and Microsoft products and so on and so on. But I also have a secondary life which is very important to me and a lot more. In fact I am somewhat of a shy person and so is my wif…
Today we had a case where we wanted to make an additional ICMP ping monitoring for all the Unix/Linux servers we were already monitoring in SCOM. There was a specific reason for that. I wanted to quickly get all the IP addresses of the Unix/Linux machin…
Last night there were some update rollups released for SCOM. One for SCOM 2012 SP1 and one for SCOM 2012 R2. Will list them below.
For SCOM 2012 SP1 this is Update Rollup 9 and can be found at KB3023167. The description does not include much at the m…
New KB
Alerts may not get forwarded as expected via a connector in Operations Manager
When using connectors to forward alerts in System Center Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr 2007) or System Center 2012 Operations Manager (OpsMgr 2012, SP1 and Ops…
Want to know about Monitoring SQL with SCOM and Operational Insights?
Then you have to check in with this webinar hosted by the WMUG NL user group and presented by a fellow MVP and friend Simon Skinner. Save your calendars for 28 January 2015 at 20:00…
Since Microsoft stopped their Microsoft Management Summit and integrated it into their TechEd it still felt like a void was left there in the System Center space. Of course the MMS in the old days started as a community thing and in the end it ended up…
Today I investigated a case where SCOM had an alert with the following name and contents:
Data Warehouse configuration synchronization process failed to write data
Data Warehouse configuration synchronization process failed to write data to the Da…