An interesting link showed up in the Microsoft Downloads page. Seems like our SCOM 2012 environments will be more than ready for the upcoming R2 of Server 2012. Microsoft has just released MPs for the all the major infrastructure components in R2 like A…
Since a few hours the Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 Preview bits are available on MSDN and TechNet. SO we can go ahead and download those files. It could be that relating to what access you have to these platforms you will see a few w…
Savision is of course known for its Live Maps software which helps to visualize the health of objects in your SCOM monitoring in a way everybody can understand what is going on. Savision has since a long time also had a Web Console where the dashboards…
My friend and fellow MVP and Savision enthusiast Marnix Wolf blogged about this issue and a quick solution provided by Savision last month. However the solution is now updated.
The Issue:
You run SCOM 2012 SP1 UR2
You run Savision Live Maps for…
Purpose
This management pack brings together I/O statistics for SQL data files and log files directly from the SQL virtual file stats view into SCOM where you can report on these for any period of time. It can collect data from SQL 2005, 2008 and 201…
Jalasoft released the new Xian SNMP Device Simulator v4.
This is a grrrrreat SNMP network device simulation tool which was and still is free of charge. It is great for instance for playing around with network monitoring in SCOM. I have been playing w…
As announced a month ago the UR2 update rollup for SCOM 2012 SP1 was released. One of the known issues of this update was that the gateway servers did not get their agent distribution folders updated. This was because there were no fixes for the bits of…
This was one highly requested MP that we have been waiting for. The Exchange 2013 Management pack for SCOM is now released. It works on SCOM 2007 R2 and SCOM 2012. The released version today of this management pack is 15.00.0620.030
For those who kne…
If you are monitoring DPM 2012 through SCOM 2012 and you have multiple DPM servers setup you might want to gain more insight into the status of the backup service as a whole and point to the issues at hand from a central location. In that case I would l…
Yesterday the Windows Server Management Pack got a new update to version 6.0.7026.0 .
Changes in This Update
The April 2013 update (version 6.0.7026.0) of the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack contains the following changes:
Fixed a b…