This is a post about using Microsoft monitoring tooling to monitor a device with an API. It will be a series of posts, due to different things to take care of and different ways to monitor and display data. I will be using part of my home automation for this, which is a Philips Hue … Read more
While working for a client, the seemingly simple task of installing the SCOM Linux agent on a Red Hat 7 server, suddenly became a bit less easy. After successfully attempting to discover a server and try to manage it as well, the following error previously unknown to me was presented: Failed to install kit. Exit … Read more
As you have read in one of my previous posts, TopQore is a sponsor and speaker at SCOMathon June 2021 edition. It the biggest event dedicated to SCOM and Microsoft monitoring solutions of the year. We surely hope you have registered for the event and will check out the great line-up of presenters and sessions … Read more
This year I will be speaking again at the SCOMathon conference of 8+9 June 2021. I am very excited about this, because this event manages to bring together many SCOM experts to talk about SCOM and things directly around it. There will be a large group of community members listening to the sessions which start … Read more
Hello SCOM community friends. We would like to know what versions of SCOM you are running in Production. This is also a research for the upcoming SCOMathon session in June (will blog separately). We would love to get an idea of numbers of SCOM versions running in your environments. We have posted a poll on … Read more
Last night Microsoft released System Center 2019 Update Rollup 3 (UR3) which was mentioned here, and with it came SCOM 2019 UR3. Earlier today I wrote about the download location and what fixes are included in SCOM 2019 UR3 and that many of them are fueled by SCOM User Voice and of course cases created … Read more
Last night the System Center team released the System Center Operations Manager 2019 Update Rollup 3 update (SCOM 2019 UR3). The KB number is KB4594078 for this one with server version number 10.19.10505.0 (also management packs) and agent version number 10.19.10177.0. Their main post covering all of the information about SCOM 2019 UR3 can be … Read more
Last night Microsoft released Update Rollup 3 (UR3) for System Center 2019, with updates for the products DPM, SCOM, VMM and SCORCH. The overview page with the links to the separate products can be found here. I will give a short overview of the fixes and improvements in those products. For SCOM I will write … Read more
Lately we regularly have chats with customers about SCOM as an application and the security measures it has. For example if TLS1.2 is supported, because customer wants to turn older versions off. Another example is question if agents are authenticated and if traffic is encrypted while in transit. Yesterday Bhavna Appayya from the SCOM product … Read more
In the second week of December is the SCOMathon Workshop week. Every day for 5 days there will be a different workshop topic. This is from 7 December to 11 December. We at TopQore have the Tuesday 8 December scheduled and our topics are: Reporting Basics (not writing custom ones with SQL code, that is … Read more