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SCOM 2012 – Find SCOM Object for “Unknown” ID in Alert

There are sometimes alerts which might contain some strange id’s which are not as informational as you might would like have. One way to find out what is hiding behind this id is to use a SCOM Powershell command. As an example, today I received an alert that looked like this…

Azure Log Analytics – Get Windows Event Description

There are cases where Microsoft tries to make our live a bit harder than it needs to be. One thing I always struggled with in the old SCOM days and also in the present Azure Log Analytics (ALA) days are Windows event descriptions. I just had a need to get the event description for a […]

SCOM – “Alert subscription data source module encountered errors while running”

Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you are gonna get. This famous sentence is very true for the IT business also. Recently I had been configuring subscription using a PowerShell script and command channel for a customer environment. The day after, the customer called, that he has lots of alerts […]