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SCOMfaq – Sponsored by NiCE

Today I am happy to announce my new blog sponsor NiCE. NiCE is a leading company for network, system and application management and monitoring. This company develops management packs for SCOM and are specialized in cross-platform monitoring. If you need management packs for DB2, Oracle, SAP, BlackBerry or Domino make sure you check their products! […]

SCOM – Comtrade Nutanix MP Beta Release Overview

Last week Comtrade invited me to a demo on their latest management pack product for monitoring Nutanix.  Comtrade is / was known for their outstanding Citrix management packs. These management packs cover, the entire monitoring experience from end-to-end and I mean in a real end-to-end experience. At the beginning of this year Citrix bought all […]

SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup

Once in a time there comes the question about the encryption key in SCOM 2012 (SP1). Older SCOM administrators were used to backup their SCOM encryption key using the SecureStorageBackup.exe utility in SCOM 2007 R2. This encryption key is essential for restoring a SCOM 2007 R2 RMS server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540390.aspx The root management server encryption key […]