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PowerShell – JSON-RPC 2.0 Interaction Connecting SCOM

SCOM is the best monitoring system on this planet but there are also other systems around. You might find yourself in a situation where you need to get some information from the other monitoring system into SCOM. Because there is probably not a supported connector for SCOM available we have to find a way to […]

SCOM – Exchange 2010 MP “extest_” User (?)

Have you ever installed the Exchange 2010 management pack? If you follow the management pack guide there will be a section where you can enable the synthetic transaction tests for the Exchange. Those synthetic transactions will perform several tests on your Exchange infrastructure and warn you if there is a problem with your mail flow. […]

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 […]