As part of the SCOM Reporting blog post series, we are talking about some of the useful reports. In this post we will have a look at the Operating System reports. There are a few to look at. First of all there are these types of folders relating to a version of Windows, but the … Read more
In this blog post series about SCOM reporting, this time I want to discuss a very useful report for SCOM Admins especially. For other stakeholders this will be less interesting. It is pure SCOM specific, but gives a LOT of information. The report I am talking about is the “Data Volume By Management Pack”. I … Read more
In a previous blog post in this SCOM Reporting blog post series I showed you an example of the Performance Detail report, where we went through selecting a time range, and made a series (graph) for a group of servers called Application XYZ Computers and we got the Processor Time % counter in there relevant … Read more
In this part of the blog post series about SCOM Reporting, we will discuss some common reasons why you might find your report to be empty. It is a very common thing when you start out playing with reports. There are a few common reasons why reports you run through the SCOM console reporting pane … Read more
In this post in the SCOM Reporting blog post series we will show you how to schedule a report, so you can get a report delivered to you or your manager every month in for example an email. The assumption here is that you have opened a report, filled in the required fields like time-range … Read more
In this post we will show you how to save a SCOM report for later runs. This way we can run the same report again next time, without having to re-configure all settings of the report and get a similar result without much effort. Also there are ways here to have somebody else run the … Read more
In this post we will show you how to export a SCOM report. In following posts we will show how to Save or Schedule the report. The assumption here is that you have opened a report, filled in the required fields like time-range and objects and successfully ran the report. You now have a report … Read more
In this post in the SCOM Reporting series we will discuss running the first report. We will use a basic Performance report as an example and we can use this example in later blog posts in this series, for example the Exporting/Saving/Scheduling reports sections coming up. For this example I created a management pack where … Read more
In this post in the SCOM Reporting series I want to discuss shortly where you can find SCOM Reporting and some very basics of it. Some of which gets forgotten by many SCOM Admins and we will explain why these things matter in the series. If you want to start running reports, you first need … Read more
In this part of the SCOM Reporting blog post series I was to discuss the Stakeholders. So In short: Who are we doing it for? As with other aspects of monitoring in general, also in SCOM and SCOM Reporting we should have a closer look at the stakeholders. Why? Because with monitoring tools often only … Read more