I wish to direct your attention to a blog post made by my friend and fellow System Center MVP Tao Yang. He is talking about community efforts and contributions and on how some of them get turned into commercial products. If you are working with SCOM for…
Recently I received a request to be able to monitor all Windows Services running under a specific user account (service account) one certain machines, and to bring them together in a overview. I will show you how I did this.
First of all we have of…
It has been a while since I wrote about Veeam and their management pack for monitoring VMware products (did you know they also added Hyper-V to that now?). Lately I got a chance to install this pack in a reasonable size environment, so this is a good ch…
Our friends at Infront Consulting Group are organizing another great set of sessions on SCOM MP Authoring. Watch below for an announcement and registration information. The event is capped to 100 attendees for get there on time:
Silect Software and I…
I am sure many of you know about BlueStripe solutions and how they connect to SCOM for application discovery and so on. Today we hear that Microsoft has aquired BlueStripe. I think this is a very good move indeed! Read the announcement here:
http://b…
For those of you wanting to provide the SCOM full console, possibly augmented with Savision Live Maps extensions, to desktops which are locked down, as a package. It might help B)
Case
We want to create a software package for the SCOM Console with S…
I had some problems with a State view in SCOM for a certain class, which used to work and now produced an error saying:
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
So I opened up the Discovered Inventory view and selected the appropri…
I know this blog is all about my technical career in IT, with System Center and Microsoft products and so on and so on. But I also have a secondary life which is very important to me and a lot more. In fact I am somewhat of a shy person and so is my wif…
Today we had a case where we wanted to make an additional ICMP ping monitoring for all the Unix/Linux servers we were already monitoring in SCOM. There was a specific reason for that. I wanted to quickly get all the IP addresses of the Unix/Linux machin…
Last night there were some update rollups released for SCOM. One for SCOM 2012 SP1 and one for SCOM 2012 R2. Will list them below.
For SCOM 2012 SP1 this is Update Rollup 9 and can be found at KB3023167. The description does not include much at the m…