Hello all, Just a quick post while I am still on vacation…
SCOM 2007 R2 CU5 has been released.
Be sure to first read the KB article completely. Check for known issues (in the kb article). Read before you try.. and try before you take it into product…
SO, following the great news of the release of the public beta for SCOM 2012 I thought to give my first install of this product a go. I will list the things I have done and ran into:
Windows and roles install
Installed a clean machine windows 2008…
Alright!, just read some good news from Justin Incarnato over at the SCOM Blog…
http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2011/07/19/system-center-operations-manager-2012-beta-is-live.aspx
The SCOM 2012 public beta is out and ready for download a…
While working with SCOM you will want to know more about what is happening to your monitoring system. This could also be for reasons of troubleshooting, but also in order to catch problems before you will actually be affected by them.
Oskar Landman and…
Another community management pack that deserves a mention is the Green Machine mp. Yet another mp made by Cameron Fuller. At some point you would want to reset the health state of a machine back to green for troubleshooting purposes or if something wen…
Nice, the MMS 2011 conference session DVD set just came in! Wow, it has three DVDs this year. Also shows that there is a lot of content (keynotes, breakout sessions, hands-on labs, slidedecks, vendor stuff). Will be sure to watch a few videos again soon.
A few tricks must be dedicated to community management packs, simply because they provide a great added value to the product. Some of these are created to provide monitoring for some kind of product, some are for viewing or reporting purposes and some a…
When talking about dashboards in SCOM you are sure to run into Savision Live maps. I will shortly discuss several dashboarding possibilities for SCOM soon in this series, but I especially wanted to call your attention to this one. I have been working wi…
One of the things I run across and I think of a lot of people with me is having a SQL installation with the wrong collation for use with SCOM. Mostly this happens when I want to install a new SCOM at a customer site and ask for a Windows installation to…
Getting notified is a subject we often touch in some way or another. Of course when you look at the SCOM console and an alert appears you are notified. Or when using Savision Dashboard you can also add a sound to be played whenever something important h…