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SMA – Runbooks Not Showing Up (e.g. Cireson SMA Connector)

My colleague and I have been developing runbooks for the past couple of month for automating business services. During this time we have written close to two hundred runbooks. Key application in triggering the runbooks is System Center Service Manager (SCSM) in conjunction with Cireson’s SMA Connector. This works great up to the past month […]

SMA – Error “Root element is missing”

While I was building SMA runbooks in the past couple of months I bumped into this rather strange error. So happen few days ago, I tried to call (invoke) a child runbook, from a parent runbook function. SMA returned an error “Root element is missing” I simplified the structure so it looks like this… Function […]

Quick Post – Check Linux Certificate Issued by SCOM

I assume you have already deployed SCOM and you are monitoring Linux or another kind of UNIX derivate. If you are new to cross platform monitoring I recommend my older blog posts in the Xplat category . SCOM uses certificates to communicate with the Linux/UNIX agent. These certificates are signed by a randomly chosen management […]