Some exciting news to share with you today! As many of you may remember, back in May 2022, Microsoft launched Azure Monitor HCI Insights for public preview. And after incorporating valuable feedback from the customers during the preview phase, Azure Monitor HCI Insights is now generally available (GA)!For those who haven’t heard before, what exactly … Read more
SCOM gives you the powerful ability to customize monitoring applied according to your exact requirements. Management Packs in SCOM contain the default and effective monitoring logic within them and are highly customizable. This is also the reason why it is absolutely crucial that we manage them effectively.Whatever default workflows and corresponding parameters sealed management packs … Read more
Last night Microsoft released UR5 for SCOM 2019. As a second remark, also DPM 2019 UR5 got released recently. And VMM 2019 also has a UR5 released. Back to SCOM now. SCOM 2019 UR5 is KB5025123 and can be found here https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5025123 The file downloads can be found in the catalog at Microsoft Update Catalog … Read more
We did a webinar about ChatGPT last time and we wanted to dive one deeper into combining the power of AI and ChatGPT with our other favorite product – SCOM – and see how that works out. Lucky our friends at GripMatix created something for that, so let’s investigate. When: Wednesday 12 April 2023 at … Read more
I hope you are all aware that GripMatix makes SCOM management packs for monitoring Citrix solutions. This has been a gaping hole for a few years since the pack from comtrade was bought by Citrix and next basically stopped. Since a while, we can now use the GripMatix packs for this and I highly encourage … Read more
Microsoft announced yesterday that Ubuntu 22.04 and RHEL 9 will be supported in SCOM 2019 and SCOM 2022. This is due to having added OpenSSL 3.0 support as well to the product and adding new packs to support these flavors. For SCOM 2022 this is implemented as a hotfix on top of UR1 as KB5024286. … Read more
Until now, we’ve created the lab and explored the cluster options and settings. Now finally, it is time to create some virtual machines. Let’s get straight into it! Let’s hit Add in the Virtual Machines button on the menu. Give it a nice name, allocate the essentials like no. of virtual processors, memory and storage. Optionally you can attach an OS ISO … Read more
In the previous part we took the time to set up our AzS HCI lab. If you’ve been following along (I’d strongly recommend to if you haven’t!) you have a 4-node cluster and WAC installed. We have not connected the cluster to Azure just yet and I think it’s better if we looked around the disconnected lab … Read more
After reading a lot about Azure Stack HCI, and comparing the two flavors (Windows Server HCI vs Azure Stack HCI), I think it is about time we get some dirt on our hands. That’s right, it is time to spin up our own Azure Stack HCI lab and see it in action! I found this tutorial in the official … Read more
System Center 2022 UR1 was recently released, and it comes with a lot of issues fixed. As an enhancement, it also ties with another big announcement in the SCOM space in recent days, the SCOM MI. This release allows you to discover Azure Monitor SCOM MI (read more about that here) from the console. This … Read more