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
Welcome to part 2 of my post about moving the TopQore blog, twice! Here in part 2 we will cover the 2020 move to Azure public cloud and putting the blog under our new subdomain. Come early 2020, BICTT is now TopQore and our blog is now on the old domain! We have two options … 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
Greetings, Mike here – TopQore sys admin, bringing you my first blog post! Today I thought I would write a bit more about how we actually performed the migration of this blog (twice!). This post will actually come in two parts – this first post detailing the 2017 move from B2 Evolution to WordPress and … Read more
On Thursday 14 May 2020 at 04:00 pm CET we will host a webinar called “Windows 2019 Hardening” This webinar will be in collaboration with Calcom Software, who have a lot of expertise in server hardening in large environments. This webinar will be held at 14 May 2020 at 4PM CET. (Amsterdam time zone) Title: Windows 2019 Hardening: … 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
Microsoft released a new hotfix yesterday for SCOM 2019. Specifically to handle a few items which appeared after some new features were released around alert management. The items in this fix: User will be able to edit columns on closed Alerts irrespective of Health State. Alerts can now be closed if the underlying Monitor’s Alerting … Read more