Another thing we saw in a SCOM 2007 R2 CU4 environment we were playing in to create new management servers, break them, migrate them, restore them and so on and so on.
What happens…
Installed a new management server and on top of that installed…
Here is another thing I saw happening in a test environment, which does not happen if you follow the guide 🙂 But always good to know what it looks like. Thought it is informative for somebody who might run into that and search for it.
This is situa…
Just a short note this time. I have blogged about the SCOM 2012 CEP (community evaluation program) a lot already. And yes, I have yet to blog about the last two sessions, but I have been swamped with stuff to do. I will get to it for sure as they are ve…
A few weeks ago I have been part of an Inside Central podcast on cross platform monitoring with SCOM, with Dan Kregor and Pete Zerger. It was lots of fun to do. Also good news is that the website for inside podcast network has been renewed and revamped.…
Early next year there will be a new Mastering SCOM 2012 book from Sybex. I have been asked to participate as a writer for this book together with a few others. So I will be writing a few chapters for that book the coming months. I love the challenge and…
Just got word over at the Server Cloud blog that SCOM 2012 RC is available for download.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2011/11/10/system-center-operations-manager-2012-release-candidate-from-the-datacenter-to-the-cloud.aspx
This is…
Another interesting case I ran into at a customer site. In this site they use a Default Action Account for their SCOM agents. We rolled out two new SCOM agents and did not specify the agent action account during deployment. So went into SCOM administrat…
Less than 2 weeks ago Microsoft released a new version of the Base-OS management pack for Windows Server 2000/2003/2008). This MP contains a few cool new features and updates. Also there were a number of community feedbacks implemented, which is a very…
I just wrote some additional words and explanations on my comments on the newly released Base OS management pack and the issues surrounding it, and our initiative to use community support to help the case of asking for a newer version of the mp, with so…
This is a continuation of my notes on the fifth SCOM 2012 CEP meeting on Application Performance Monitoring. This is a two part post. You can find the first post over here.
Application monitoring
The discovery is done through the IIS discovery fir…