In this post in the SCOM Reporting series I want to discuss shortly where you can find SCOM Reporting and some very basics of it. Some of which gets forgotten by many SCOM Admins and we will explain why these things matter in the series. If you want to start running reports, you first need … Read more
In this part of the SCOM Reporting blog post series I was to discuss the Stakeholders. So In short: Who are we doing it for? As with other aspects of monitoring in general, also in SCOM and SCOM Reporting we should have a closer look at the stakeholders. Why? Because with monitoring tools often only … Read more
We have been working with SCOM for many years and almost everywhere we go we find that SCOM Reporting is often not understood and not used that much. Or only used for a few very specific reports. In this blog post series we aim to give you more information about SCOM Reporting. We will cover … Read more
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
On Tuesday 02 June 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “WMUG NL Tuesdays – Monitoring in a Hybrid World” Together with the user group WMUG NL (Windows Management User Group Netherlands) we are presenting one of their WMUG NL Tuesdays sessions as a webinar open to anybody. Bob is also involved … 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
While trying to remove some management packs from SCOM we found a problem where for a few packs it would give a timeout after an hour of looking at a SCOM console saying Busy… at the bottom of the screen. In this case we were swapping out the older SQL packs of 7.0.7.0 version with … Read more
Hello all followers of this blog. Starting yesterday we moved the blog which was first at www.bictt.com/blogs to blog.topqore.com. We did a move before at the same bictt address but to a different blog software (b2evolution to WordPress). So now we moved it to TopQore and created translation rules for the previous links to still … Read more
On Thursday 16 April 2020 at 4 PM CET (Amsterdam) we have hosted a webinar called “How to Upgrade SCOM like a Champ!”. See below how to register for the recording! Description: In this webinar we will talk you through the major points to plan for when doing a SCOM upgrade or side-by-side migration and … Read more
We had a server connected to Log Analytics workspace through the MMA agent and it had suffered a few hard power-downs. The machine went into fixing files on the disk and such in a checkdsk action. Maybe something got broken at that time. But we saw that it was no longer talking to Log Analytics … Read more