When it comes to monitoring, standard metrics and built-in checks often provide a great starting point. But what if you need deeper insights tailored to your specific environment? That’s where SQL custom query-based monitors come in. Although SQL Custom Query-Based DB Engine or Database monitors had been released with version agnostic SQL management packs long … Read more
On Thursday 29 October 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “Skyrocket the performance of your SCOM environment” We asked our good friend Stoyan Chalakov and fellow MVP to talk about the methods and tricks to make the SCOM infrastructure perform much better. Stoyan and Bob will take turns chatting about … Read more
Important update 13/10/2020: Recently, the SQL 2019 CU7 update was taken offline due to several important issues. Although CU8 was released pretty much at the same time, there is no information to be found anymore about the support of SCOM 2019 for SQL 2019. After testing, it appeared that a clean installation of SCOM 2019 … Read more
A few weeks ago we created a blog post series about SCOM Reporting. Today we are announcing availability of a free eBook about SCOM Reporting based on that series and some additions in technical content that we have created for you. The book contains all the basic information you need to know to start using … Read more
We are announcing that we will do a webinar about “SCOM Reporting Essentials” on Thursday 20 August 2020 at 4 PM CET (Amsterdam time). The webinar will be presented by Bob Cornelissen and Martijn Weterings. You can register for the webinar through https://topqore.com/webinars/scom-reporting-essentials-webinar/ Title: SCOM Reporting Essentials When: Thursday 20 August at 4 PM CET (Amsterdam time) Who: … Read more
This is a continuation of the SCOM Reporting blog post series. Today I want to talk a little bit about Availability and/or SLA/SLO reporting. Basically stakeholders for the monitoring often want to know if a server or application was UP during the last month/week/day. In SCOM this is defined by two items, the agent itself … Read more
In this blog post series about SCOM reporting, this time I want to discuss a very useful report for SCOM Admins especially. For other stakeholders this will be less interesting. It is pure SCOM specific, but gives a LOT of information. The report I am talking about is the “Data Volume By Management Pack”. I … Read more
In a previous blog post in this SCOM Reporting blog post series I showed you an example of the Performance Detail report, where we went through selecting a time range, and made a series (graph) for a group of servers called Application XYZ Computers and we got the Processor Time % counter in there relevant … Read more
In this part of the blog post series about SCOM Reporting, we will discuss some common reasons why you might find your report to be empty. It is a very common thing when you start out playing with reports. There are a few common reasons why reports you run through the SCOM console reporting pane … Read more
In this post in the SCOM Reporting blog post series we will show you how to schedule a report, so you can get a report delivered to you or your manager every month in for example an email. The assumption here is that you have opened a report, filled in the required fields like time-range … Read more