The Infrastructure Planning and Design guides (IPD) are always a great resource when working through designs for implementations of all kinds of products and solutions. CUrrently the team is working on the IPD guide for SCOM 2012.
They have released…
As I explained in the previous post on how to check for CU5 installation on SCOM 2007 R2, the way to check for successfull implementation of Cumulative updates has come up as questions in the community a number of times and I found a need as well to hav…
During the past year I have seen several requests from people in the community on how they can check if their servers have successfully applied a certain Cumulative Update. Lately I had a requirement to create some test scripts to determine if CU5 has b…
Had a case where we used the SCOM 2012 network device discovery and found our devices to be in Pending Management, with the notification “No Response Ping”. Even with network devices where we only ping and ping does work from the command prompt.
Thing…
While I was playing around with some SCOM 2012 web console items in a test environment I ran into another small issue. Probably because we have been playing around with it too much. But than again I guess somebody else might run into this issue as well.…
Last week I got a question from a friend in the System Center community, Adrian Chirtoc, about how to remove a management group entry from a multi-homed SCOM 2012 agent by using a script.
The case at hand was a parallel side-by-side installation of SCO…
A few days ago Microsoft released a KB article which explains how to add a product key to an evaluation version of SCOM 2012. It is a simple procedure. You can find the KB article here: How to add a product key to an eval version of System Center 2012…
A few days ago I was playing around with auto installation of one of my favorite products, nworks 5.7, and ran into a small bug. nworks 5.7 has an installation guide with good guidance on how to use command lines to install the different components, suc…
Was looking at a SCOM console with a lot of alerts today at a customer site. I did not feel like going through it all, so I wanted to clean out all alerts created by a rule, which had not been modified for at least 24 hours. This is because alerts comin…
For some customers the only people running and viewing reports are the same as the ones who already have advanced rights in SCOM. If they are admins they can see and run reports as they please. However in many cases we need to allow application owners a…