About two weeks ago Microsoft released a newer version of its Microsoft BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007. This version includes monitoring of BizTalk Server 2009. The newer version is 6.0.6679.0.
You can find it here or at th…
A few days ago Microsoft released a newer version of the management pack for monitoring the Key Management Service that is used to activate Windows Vista and Windows 2008 to now extend support to Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.
The new version is 6.0.…
Yesterday Microsoft released a new version of the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007. The new version is 6.0.6667.0 and includes Windows Server 2008 R2 support! This release of the management pack can be found her…
Have a customer with a lot of machines that have a broken WMI, so I guess I’d blog about possibilities to solve the issue for the agent installation part.I refer to a blog posting by the Manageability Team Blog.So, you could make a script that do…
Check out my friend Walter Eikenboom’s entry on what the SPN should look like for your SCOM 2007 R2 implementations. It raises many questions for many customers and this is a good way to explain what’s going on and what to check for.
http://weblogwall…
There are so many things that can go wrong when trying to push a SCOM agent to machine. And of course my list of favorites grew so large that I had to go and find the article by Kevin Holman again. Just to make sure… here it is:
http://blogs.technet.c…
I just attended the System Center Influencers Live Meeting session. It was the first session by and for the group.
A quick link to the announcement: http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter/archive/2009/09/08/don-t-miss-end-to-end-monitoring-of-it-servic…
I came across a blogpost from Derek Harkin about port monitoring from a text file in SCOM. It essentially makes it possible to use a text file to type what machine you want to reach and at what port and it will check that every ten minutes and display a…
Kristopher Bash has a great blog over here and his newest project was an advanced SNMP monitoring pack for SCOM R2 monitoring Cisco devices. It is fun to follow the development proces through a number of his blog postings you can find on his blog.
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A new KB Article has been released for a SCOM agent or server with an error 623. One or more management servers and their managed devices are dimmed in the Operations Manager Console of Operations Manager 2007. The article can be found here: http://suppo…