Fresh blog for BICTT and Bob
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…
System Center
System Center articles on SCOM, DPM, VMM, Service Manager and Orchestrator: fixes, release news, upgrade notes and practical tips from TopQore experts.
ONLINE SESSION: IT is not SCOMplicated with OMS
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…
Another case of SCOM databases and log files going down and growing fast
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…
SCOM 2016 UR3 released
SCOM 2016 UR3 has been released and contain some awaited fixes. You can find the KB article here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-za/help/4016126/update-rollup-3-for-system-center-2016-operations-manager Download location for the files:…
Savision Live Maps Service Health Index
Starting with version of Savision Live Maps version 8.5 they added a new feature called Service Health Index. Let us investigate what it does. Those who have been using Live Maps the last few years know about the Services monitoring, which basically is…
NiCE DB2 Management Pack updated
The new version 4.20 of NiCE DB2 Management Pack has been released! New with this release • Feature: Support of DB2 BLU Acceleration • Feature: Monitoring of InDoubt Transactions • Security: Support of DB2 restrictive databases • Security: Support of…
SCOM Web Console Application Pool crashing every 15 minutes
Recently I had a customer where the SCOM web console application pool would be crashing every 15 minutes (2 servers in this case). This was on a SCOM 2016 instance on a Windows 2012 R2 server. The error message we got was (the process id is a different…
SCOM agent for Linux and root squash
At one of my customers they had a problem deploying SCOM agents through a script on Linux servers. They had a number of Red Hat 6 servers and all went well. On the Red Hat 7 servers however the agent refused to install. Also through a push of the agent…
Test your knowledge on SCOM/OMS/Azure and more
Now test your knowledge on SCOM/OMS/Azure and more through this quiz for fun and to win a Band as well 😀
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Error 500.19 after installing Savision LiveMaps Unity Portal
Today I was doing a quick installation of the Savision 8.2 Live Maps Unity Portal. Downloaded the self-extracting executable from the website and of course arranged a license key. While running the installer I selected the Express setup which just pushe…