For some customers the only people running and viewing reports are the same as the ones who already have advanced rights in SCOM. If they are admins they can see and run reports as they please. However in many cases we need to allow application owners a…
When you look in SCOM Administration and go to device management and pending management you might see some machines listed there. This can have several reasons.
– You might have the SCOM security settings set in a way that manually installed agents nee…
Dashboarding is actually very important with SCOM, and most of it is due to the way people operate. People like to have visual overviews of the status of machines/networks/applications and health states and alerts split by functions and so on. The machi…
Wow, in the end you will not believe what a good trick reporting is for SCOM. At first we always tend to dive into the technical stuff of designing and installing SCOM, distributing agents, importing management packs, tuning management packs and getting…
As stated in the previous post, there was a SCOM CEP meeting last week which I wanted to discuss as I am enthusiastic about the CEP program and even more about the upcoming product and its possibilities. So lets continue with what Justin Incarnato discu…
As stated in the previous post, there was a SCOM CEP meeting last week which I wanted to discuss as I am enthusiastic about the CEP program and even more about the upcoming product and its possibilities. So lets continue with what Justin Incarnato discu…
As stated in the previous post, there was a SCOM CEP meeting last week which I wanted to discuss as I am enthusiastic about the CEP program and even more about the upcoming product and its possibilities. So lets continue with what Justin Incarnato discu…
Last week was the first meeting of the SCOM 2012 Community Evaluation Program (also called CEP) with Adam Hall and Justin Incarnato doing the honors for getting everybody involved and excited on this specific program. As the kickoff of the CEP program f…
Cross platform monitoring in SCOM is a good thing. It has been a good step to include it and in many environments we have come across machines that we could now monitor with SCOM 2007 R2 (or higher). A fair number of Unix and Linux distributions which a…
Certificates can play an important role in SCOM when monitoring machines in non-trusted domains and workgroups. During the past years we have seen all kinds of things that can go wrong with certificates, especially during the initial stages. Mostly beca…