SCOM 2012 – NEW Monitoring Pack for UNIX and Linux OS
stefanroth Microsoft just released the latest Xplat management packs for System Center Operations Manager 2012. You can find it here
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SCOM 2007 R2 CU2 – Deploy Agent to Sun Solaris 10 Zone (SPARC)
Today I had a kind of emergency operation to complete. The customer needed a pre-prod Solaris 10 environment monitored with SCOM 2007 R2. The purpose was to get an idea…
Reset Monitor using SCOM 2012 and Orchestrator – A must have Runbook
There is at least one Runbook each SCOM responsible must have. Are you wondering which? Well, I am sure you are always aware of what kind of alert you are…
SCOM 2012 – Discovery Wizard running forever
I experienced in a relatively small environment that the Discovery Wizard in SCOM 2012 is running forever. I rejected some pending agents which were discovered properly but stayed in a…
MMS 2012 Download Sessions – Offline Viewing
Here I just created a script to download the MMS 2012 sessions for offline viewing . There are few things you will need: Create a login account here http://www.mms-2012.com/digitalmms Get…
SCOM 2012 – Using Alert Custom Fields
In today’s world of monitoring it is not always easy for people from the service desk or even for administrators to identify from which system is this alert being sent,…
SCOM 2012 – Installing Pre-requisites for Web Console
Sometimes it takes time to install pre-requisites especially for the SCOM web console. There you need IIS, .NET Framework 3.5.1 and tons of IIS modules. There is a way to…
SCOM 2012 – Add a product key to an eval version
Microsoft published KB2699998 which guides you through setting a valid license key for a SCOM 2012 evaluation version. KB can be found here.
SCOM 2012 – JEE Application Availability Monitor Template
In SCOM 2012 you get also new possibilities to monitor your JEE application servers. If you are already monitoring an application server e.g. Tomcat then you will find under the…
SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 4 Monitoring Application Server
In Part 3 we deployed the agent to LINUX and started to monitor SUSE LINUX. But just want to give you some impression how and what it is going to…