SCOM 2012 and 2012 R2 articles: fixes, management pack tips, reports and troubleshooting steps. Useful for old systems and for planning your next upgrade.
Today I was doing a quick installation of the Savision 8.2 Live Maps Unity Portal. Downloaded the self-extracting executable from the website and of course arranged a license key. While running the installer I selected the Express setup which just pushe…
Ran into a customer issue today whereby there was a nice clean SCOM 2012 R2 installation with UR’s. Certificates arranged and momcertimport ran. On the agent machines in DMZ we had the agent installed, UR on it, certificate root imported, certificate me…
I thought I would take a different approach to thinking about how to make a SCOM monitoring project a success. It is not about technical details or designs this time, but about a way to bring business and IT together into monitoring business related ser…
Came along a SCOM 2012 R2 instance which was expired. The license key was not entered on time, so SCOM did not work anymore and the SDK refused connection. Look in the event log and you will see that your evaluation version has expired and you need to e…
While chatting with some MVP friends of mine about a specific scenario where data from e-mails needed to be read and monitored, there are multiple possibilities to do it. I proposed one possibility which I implemented at a customer a while ago and got a…
About a bit ago the Base OS pack has been updated again to a version 6.0.7303.0
It is not advised to upgrade your SCOM packs to this version yet, because it has some bugs in it.
Kevin Holman writes about it here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinhol…
Bridgeways has been working very hard this last year in coming back into their speed for creating management packs, updating existing ones, making them more intuitive and useful to work with, adding support staff and also hiring a very competent CTO (a…
We noticed the release of UR9 for Service Manager a day before and WSUS also already had the SCOM agent updates, but today the KB article is released giving the overview of the UR9 for System Center 2012 R2 products.
The KB article for System Center…
LJUBLJANA, January 11, 2016 – Comtrade System Software & Tools (Comtrade), a leading provider of IT infrastructure and application management and monitoring solutions, today announced that its Citrix management packs were acquired by Citrix, a strat…
I have written and talked about Jalasofts great tool called Device Simulator. Many people in the monitoring space have been using this tool in previous versions. Today they released a fresh version of this tool to the 5.5 version.
The main additions…