We are regularly getting questions about SCOM Gateways from customers, community and at events. What are they used for, when do we use them, how to do high availability with gateways, what about network and linux monitoring, common problems with gateways. Together with NiCE IT Management Solutions we are going to do a webinar about … 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
As part of the SCOM Reporting blog post series, we are talking about some of the useful reports. In this post we will have a look at the “SCOM Health Check Reports”. This is a set of reports created in the SCOM community, by Pete Zerger and Oskar Landman mainly. The current version can be … Read more
As part of the SCOM Reporting blog post series, we are talking about some of the useful reports. In this post we will have a look at the Operating System reports. There are a few to look at. First of all there are these types of folders relating to a version of Windows, but the … 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
In this post we will show you how to save a SCOM report for later runs. This way we can run the same report again next time, without having to re-configure all settings of the report and get a similar result without much effort. Also there are ways here to have somebody else run the … Read more
In this post we will show you how to export a SCOM report. In following posts we will show how to Save or Schedule the report. The assumption here is that you have opened a report, filled in the required fields like time-range and objects and successfully ran the report. You now have a report … Read more