Just thought to post on a management pack that has been around for some time, posted by my friend Pete Zerger. On Windows boxes it not only discovers if it is a windows virtual machine (hyper-v for instance), but also if it is a vmware guest. Thi…
Last week I visited Savision head quarters in the Netherlands.
Was great to see them again and talk about new things to come.
I can’t wait to see and get the new releases of software coming from these guys.
Of course there will be a new ve…
Sorry for the delay, but I just wanted to mention that the SCOM R2 sizing helper has had an update about 2 weeks ago. You can get the Operations Manager 2007 R2 sizing helper here.
I use these a lot as they help with getting basic sizing recom…
I was just looking through the technet forums and saw an updated post from Kerrie Meyler, the lead writer of the SCOM Unleashed books.
This is an excerpt from the latest post in the thread:
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I am now able to conf…
Had a few machines today with an error we see more often, so I thought I would share it.
Symptoms:
A SCOM agent has these messages.
Event 21041.
Operations Manager has received a bad configuration file for management group mgmtgroup whic…
Last week I had some trouble deploying a SCOM cross plat agent to a Redhat 4 machine. During discovery of the machine I got an error indicating that it could not transfer the file GetOSVersion.sh . I will write down what happened and my understan…
Microsoft released another Cumulative Update for SCOM R2 Cross Platform:
System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cross Platform Cumulative Update 2 (KB979490)
This is an update that must be run on Management Servers and Gateways and agents…
The Windows Server Internet Information Services 7 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 has a new release. Main added feature is support for monitoring IIS on Windows 2008 SP2 and Windows 2008 R2. It can be downloaded from th…
There is a small update to the BizTalk management pack for BizTalk 2006 and 2009.
Version: 6.0.6703.0
Date Published: 2/2/2010
The 6.0.6703 version of the Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 include…
A new SCOM management has been released:
DFS Namespaces Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007
Version: 6.0.6321.0
Date Published: 2/2/2010
Overview
The DFS Namespaces Management Pack monitors servers running Windo…