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
If you are using SCOM MMA agents, and you have them connected to Azure Monitor Log Analytics, you will want to take a look at this. The SCOM agents used to use SSL V1 to connect up, and this older version of communication will be closed on 1 November 2022. Meaning that from that point … Read more
Hello SCOM enthusiasts. This is an announcement that we will be doing a webinar with our friends from SCOMathon about SCOM 2022 migration. On Tuesday 27 September at 4 PM CEST, we will be presenting a webinar for the SCOMathon Coffee Break sessions. The topic is going to be about SCOM 2022 Migration, for which … Read more
Hello friends. This is an announcement that we will see another HackaSCOM this year in 2022! Dates: 29 and 30 November 2022 Organization: SCOMathon Judges: Stoyan Chalakov, Bob Cornelissen, tbd… Contestants: Come on and take the challenge to take on several community experts into building a Management pack in record time to solve some challenge … Read more
Lately a good friend of mine, Cyril Azoulay, ran into an interesting issue while in-place upgrading a relatively recent SCOM 2019 setup to 2022 version. Since his blogs are mainly in French, he allowed me to write down his case over here in my own words (since his blog is not out yet). Merci Cyril! … Read more
Hello my monitoring friends, I am doing a quick 1-question poll. What version(s) of SCOM are you currently using in production? https://forms.office.com/r/m34zpibxCw It is anonymous, multiple selections are possible if you run multiple versions. The picture below takes you to this link as well. I am asking this as preparation for a webinar. Much appreciated … Read more
Hello all! Our friends at Silect are organizing another MP University again with a lot of SCOM content! On Wednesday 8 June at 8AM Eastern Time to 1 PM (14:00 to 19:00 in Europe), there will be several sessions by Aakash Basavaraj, Kevin Holman, Mike Sargent, the OpsLogix team and TopQore’s Bob Cornelissen! I will … Read more
This is just a small but important message if you are in a migration or in a situation where you have multiple SCOM management groups of different versions. When you update the SCOM Console on your server or workstation to SCOM 2022 Console, you can not use it to connect to down-level SCOM management groups … Read more
In this series of blog posts about what is new in SCOM 2022 (or different), we discuss here the enhanced RBAC for Admin roles. What we and several of you found out is that within SCOM there are User Roles and Custom User Roles and you can create custom roles to grant scoped and limited … Read more
In SCOM 2022 there is now a change again to the options to closing an alert from an unhealthy monitor. Let me first give some background what is going on here. In SCOM 2012/2016, when we had alerts that we wanted to close, we could simply close them. This is alright for Rules. But for … Read more