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SCOM 2012 Linux Monitoring (Lab) – Part 3 Agent Deployment

In part 2 we prepared SCOM to get ready for monitoring LINUX. Now we need to deploy the agent. So let’s get started… Here an overview of the steps we need to take: Create monitoring account Modify sudoers file Discovery wizard Redeploy certificate

SCOM 2012 – Install SCOM PowerShell Modules Without SCOM Console Installation

Yes we all know less is sometimes more. This saying does not only belong to the human bodyweight, nope,  since the Windows Server Core area we all know less “*.dll” is better. Like this saying, a few days ago I had been asked an interesting question. How can we use the SCOM PowerShell module without […]

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 […]