A few days ago a new Active Directory management pack was released for SCOM. It is now version 6.0.7822.0.
The changes in the version can be seen below as taken directly from the download page:
The AD management pack is generally a good MP and…
A few days ago I was playing around with auto installation of one of my favorite products, nworks 5.7, and ran into a small bug. nworks 5.7 has an installation guide with good guidance on how to use command lines to install the different components, suc…
I just noticed that I have been blogging for three years now. Around 265 posts until now.
The last few weeks have been a bit more quiet as I got swamped with work and some other things.
I will be picking up again these weeks and am looking forward to…
Was looking at a SCOM console with a lot of alerts today at a customer site. I did not feel like going through it all, so I wanted to clean out all alerts created by a rule, which had not been modified for at least 24 hours. This is because alerts comin…
Lately have been investigating some strange behavior at a customer site where SCOM 2007 would not send out notifications. At the same time we were investigating why a test of promoting a management server to RMS would not work correctly. As it turned ou…
Ran into a small issue today where I wanted to connect to an Nworks 5.6 web UI and it promptly gave me an error. It was giving the same errors to the VIC machines who were trying to connect to this nworks EMS machine as well on port 4430.
This is the…
The new year of 2012 started great today. Got an email just now that I have been honored with an MVP status! I am so happy!
Wow, we are in the middle of the holiday season again. Christmas has passed and hopefully it was a very nice one for everybody. New year is due tomorrow night. Moving on to the next year again!
Looking back a bit at 2011…
Last year was a busy one…
A while back my good friend Marnix Wolf posted an article about the quality of some of the management packs provided by Microsoft. As was to be expected this did cause some discussion as a lot of people in the community have opinions on that and sometim…
A while back we moved an OperationsManager database from one SQL server to another. While investigating something we saw this event in the application event log on the SQL server:
Log name: Application
Source: MSSQLSERVER
Event ID: 18054
Descripti…