SCOM

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…

Today I was upgrading a number of SCOM agents from SP1 to R2 version (using split monitoring at first).
After the installation the agents refused to start.
After a manual try on the machines to start the service I got the following error:
Windows…

Update to below post: Still not on MSDN but available on partner download site now. I saw on the blog from my friend Marnix that he had it on MVLS as well now.
Well my friends… I did have some discussions about the availability of the SCOM R2 bits…

Came across a blogpost from Kevin Holman today about the behavior of SCOM in combination with the Cluster service when the Clustering Management pack is installed. When the cluster service goes down on a cluster node there is an automatic recovery that i…