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SCOM 2012 – Get Rule / Monitor Details For Corresponding Workflow Name

Sometimes you receive alerts from SCOM which contain a lot of content in the description. For example in certain cases you receive alert like this… In this description you see the workflow name Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.NetworkAdapter.PercentBandwidthUsedTotal.Collection. In some cases it is more difficult to figure out a bit more about a workflow and using the GUI search […]

SCOM 2016 – What’s New UNIX/Linux Series: File System Discovery e.g. Exclude /tmp

A little pain in SCOM 2012 R2 was, that as soon you installed the UNIX/Linux management packs for your distribution all UNIX/Linux folders were discovered on the file system. This could be lead to a huge list of monitored directories e.g. /tmp, /var… which was not intended to be. To overcome this problem, you would […]

SCOM 2012 – Try Linux Nagios Plugins e.g. File Age Check

You might remember MacGyver – a guy who could build a NASA rocket out of some explosives, matches and a steel tube. He was my hero back then but today you could also be a MacGyver by just using the tools you have and just plug it the right way together. That means MacGyver used […]