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pack and the issues surrounding it, and our initiative to use community support to help the case of asking for a newer version of the mp, with so…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…
SCOM CEP 2012. 4 October 2011
Michael Guthrie
Application Performance Management
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Advantage will be that there is no need to adjust the code for the .Net application. The code is attached by APM to the IIS.
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This morning I talked to my good friend and SCOM guru Marnix Wolf about the new Base OS management pack version 6.0.6956.0 that was just released a few days ago. Same as in his case I was writing up a blog post about the mp, when I started noticing some…
Just to inform you that the next SCOM 2012 CEP meeting is tomorrow and is on the subject of Application monitoring. Application monitoring is a monitoring layer that is scary to dive into, because for many non-Microsoft products there are no management…
For a script I was creating in order to classify new alerts in SCOM, I found myself wanting to find alerts that had been in a “New” state for over 30 minutes and give it a specific Resolution State.
So just started out creating a search string in Pow…