A few months ago SCOM 1807 was released at the end of July 2018. It was a release we had been waiting for due to some fixes and due to some features. Let’s discuss a few things about this release according to this agenda: • New Features in SCOM 1807 • Issues Fixed in SCOM … Read more
On 3 May 2018 we are going to do a webinar about SCOM 1801. The webinar is hosted by Savision, and there are two main presenters. These are Aditya Goda from the SCOM product team and myself Bob Cornelissen. Main topics: HTML5 Dashboards Linux Monitoring Improvements Migration Planning and the new “Semi-Annual Channel Release” Model … 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
Bob will be presenting 2 sessions at ExpertsLive US 2018 February 8-9 in Houston Texas. We will do one presentation as sponsor session on behalf of Savision on the topic of SCOM Reporting and visualization on Thursday. You will see more on this subject coming in the next few days by the way so stay … Read more
After creating a web check monitor in SCOM using the Web Application Availability Monitoring template or the one for Web Application Transaction Monitoring you might get errors on the monitored web pages you did not expect. Default error codes like 400/401 and such are relatively normal status codes, but there are more things which may … Read more
SCOM 2016 Update Rollup 4 has just been released. It has some fixes in there we have been waiting for a while. A list taken from the KB article is below. Scroll down for the link to the KB article. When a log file is being monitored by SCOM, Monagent locks the file and won’t … Read more
New versions of the DHCP management packs for DHCP 2016 and DHCP 2012 and 2012 R2 were released earlier. There are a number of fixes implemented. The 2016 version can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54587 And the 2012 and 2012 R2 version can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39062
The last few days we have been working to move my blog over from the b2evolution platform I have been using for the last 8 years or so to a WordPress based platform. We are actually working on the company website as well, which was hosted on a custom created platform. The main URL for … Read more
This Thursday, I will be hosting Savision’s upcoming webinar ‘IT is not SCOMplicated with OMS’. Savision’s Technical Sales Manager, Justin Boerrigter will be joining me in a session focused on the new service mapping feature in OMS and how this fits…
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…