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
In this post in the SCOM Reporting series we will discuss running the first report. We will use a basic Performance report as an example and we can use this example in later blog posts in this series, for example the Exporting/Saving/Scheduling reports sections coming up. For this example I created a management pack where … Read more