On Thursday 11 June 2020 at 3:00 pm CET we will be a guest in Martello Q&A session called “IT Connections” with the topic of SCOM Reporting Topic: Organizing Data from SCOM into Actionable Reports that Add Business Value When: Thursday 11 June 2020 at 3 PM CET (Amsterdam time) Speakers: Bob Cornelissen, MVP and CTO at … Read more
Lately there has been a lot of effort by Microsoft in getting Microsoft Q&A ready for production for all products. This is the new platform for the old forums lets say (TechNet and MSDN). Now there s also something on TechNet called the Gallery, where we placed scripts and packs and other stuff created throughout … Read more
The new version of the SQL management pack for SCOM has become available at the close of the year. Thank you for the present! The new version agnostic pack has version 7.0.20.0 and is compatible with SQL 2019 as well. So it covers SQL versions from 2012 and up without the need to create overrides … Read more
After proudly presenting a non-functional reporting environment in my own home lab while giving SCOM training at a client, it was time to examine what exactly was going wrong. The next time I’d like to show my audience the usefulness of certain reports. Let’s face it – certain reports are irreplaceable if you want to … Read more
We ran into a problem a few days ago while turning on encryption for SQL for a SQL cluster. After turning on encryption for the server we had to restart the SQL service for the database engine. And it failed to start with some strange message. A reboot failed to help. SO we started to … Read more
Another case of a SCOM investigation we got involved in was about the SQL team trying to monitor SQL Analysis Services (SSAS) using SCOM. Management pack was installed, agent deployed, proxy enabled, runas accounts arranged, rights arranged for the runas account. And nothing found on those SQL servers. In the meantime this case was already … Read more
As stated in my previous post System Center 2016 products (SCOM, DPM, VMM, Orch) came with SCOM Update Rollup 6. For SCOM this means a number of things got fixed, See the excerpt from the KB article below: Improvements and issues that are fixed Application pool crashes and SharePoint application crashes because of APM agent … Read more
A week ago I found that one of the WordPress sites (Web App) I was hosting in one of my Azure subscriptions stopped to work. It was giving a database connection error. After clicking through a bit more so I would get the actual error I had something like this: We were able to connect … Read more
Well, I have spent the last two days fighting SQL to get a customers SCOM environment running again. Somehow a few weeks ago their SCOM environment broke due to the databases going down. Seemed something went wrong with backups and the log files filled…
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…