Microsoft has released new MSRC‑driven security hotfix for customers running System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2025 Update Rollup 1 and SCOM 2019 Update Rollup 6. These updates address a key security enhancement related to the PowerShell widget in the SCOM Web Console and are highly recommended for all environments leveraging these versions. What’s the Purpose … Read more
In today’s dynamic cloud environments, the ability to scale resources quickly is essential. However, keeping monitoring consistent during rapid scaling can be challenging. This blog explores how the SCOMAgentHelper Management Pack helps streamline Maintenance Mode operations directly from the agent side. Summary • Learn how to trigger Maintenance Mode directly from the SCOM agent.• Automate … Read more
Upgrading UNIX/Linux agents in System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is typically a smooth and simple process. Most environments can perform the upgrade directly from the Administration pane by selecting the agent and executing the upgrade task. However, when Apache is installed on the target Linux server, the upgrade may unexpectedly fail due to additional components … Read more
When it comes to monitoring, standard metrics and built-in checks often provide a great starting point. But what if you need deeper insights tailored to your specific environment? That’s where SQL custom query-based monitors come in. Although SQL Custom Query-Based DB Engine or Database monitors had been released with version agnostic SQL management packs long … Read more
Lately we were updating a SCOM 2022 to the SCOM 2025 version and after the management servers and so on we started with agent updates. While trying to update some agents a day later we got this error: The Operations Manager Server failed to perform specified operation on computer XXXXXXOperation: Agent InstallInstall account: XXXXXXError Code: … Read more
As you may know, TopQore has a range of trainings for SCOM and SCOM MI available, ranging from Operator to Administrator, to Specialist and Architect. I am writing today to announce some upcoming dates for the pieces of training because it is often requested. Dates in chronological order for Q4 2024: Date Training Start Time … Read more
When Microsoft releases a new UNIX\Linux agent version and you upgrade the agents, it is possible that the SCOM Console shows upgrade as done but the versions may revert back to the previous version. We will look into why this happens and how to solve it. In low privileged environments, defined UNIX\Linux accounts in your … Read more
In this blog post I am writing about the rights a Delegated SCOM Admin has versus the Full SCOM Admin. It started out as a question from one of my long time customers, who are looking to use SCOM 2022 and the Delegated Admin role to narrow down the rights of daily SCOM Admins to … Read more
Hello friends from the SCOM and monitoring community! I want to take this opportunity to call out a few leaning opportunity regarding both SCOM and also Cloud technologies, so bare with me. First of all, TopQore offers a range of SCOM certifications and trainings, from Operator to Administrator and soon Specialist. You can find the … Read more
SCOM monitoring evolves constantly, sometimes through versions and features of the product and sometimes through the Management Packs. Today I want to talk about monitoring certificates and CRL’s for Windows servers and PKI. For years this was covered through a community management pack created by Raphael Burri and is maintained on Github over here. I … Read more