Want to know about Monitoring SQL with SCOM and Operational Insights?
Then you have to check in with this webinar hosted by the WMUG NL user group and presented by a fellow MVP and friend Simon Skinner. Save your calendars for 28 January 2015 at 20:00…
Since Microsoft stopped their Microsoft Management Summit and integrated it into their TechEd it still felt like a void was left there in the System Center space. Of course the MMS in the old days started as a community thing and in the end it ended up…
Today I investigated a case where SCOM had an alert with the following name and contents:
Data Warehouse configuration synchronization process failed to write data
Data Warehouse configuration synchronization process failed to write data to the Da…
This is a post in continuation of my previous post on the topic of upgrading a SCOM 2012 SP1 to a SCOM 2012 R2, which went wrong and how I was fixing it. After fixing the SCOM instance everything seemed alright for half a day. The very next morning we h…
A few weeks ago I did an upgrade of SCOM 2012 SP1 UR6 to SCOM 2012 R2 (and later to UR3) for a customer. Of course they have a test environment with SCOM in it and I went through the whole process and everything looked fine there. Next I was allowed to…
Often after updates of SCOM 2012 / 2012 R2 or after a clean install people go to the SCOM Web Console and they get the following notification:
Web Console Configuration Required.
A user can click the configure button and run the executable and…
Just wanted to say I am back. Last few months I have been working mostly behind the scenes for a while due to several reasons. Still doing the System Center stuff and working on some things you will be seeing in the near future though. But now I am back…
I often get questions for getting SQL info together, such as names, instances, versions, editions and so on for all kinds of purposes. Sometimes as inventory, sometimes to find instances no longer supported, rogue instances, needed for licensing info an…
While I was upgrading a bunch of SCOM 2012 Unix/Linux agents to a higher rollup level the other day I noticed an error on one of them. I need to quickly say that upgrading the agents was otherwise a breeze by just selecting a few of them and using the u…
Because a customer needed an export of all network devices currently in monitoring and the list was a bit long I decided to use PowerShell for this purpose. However I regularly see questions about retrieving also agents and Linux agents and network devi…