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SCOM 2012 – Microsoft Case Study

As a German motto is “Do good and talk about it!” In this post I will follow this motto. Last year I had a chance to realize a System Center Operations Manager 2012 project for a leading milk processor company located in Switzerland and certain parts of Europe. This project has been a very interesting […]

PowerShell – Create a Credential Object with NULL Password

In one of my automation tasks I had the need to create a credential object with a $null password – an empty / NULL password. One easy way to do is, create just instantiate a new secure string object using the new() constructor from the .Net class like this: or using New-Object cmdlet like this […]

SCOM 2012 Monitoring Cisco UCS – Part 1 Emulator Setup

In an ideal world scenario everything you would monitor is from Microsoft but in a real world scenario there are certain situation where you hit a foreign system type from a different company especially if you have to monitor hardware stuff. As in these cloudy days Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) is getting more popular […]