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SCOM 2012 – Using Alert Custom Fields

In today’s world of monitoring it is not always easy for people from the service desk or even for administrators to identify from which system is this alert being sent, who is responsible for the system and maybe in a multitenant environment to which company belongs this system/alert. In my case a company which is hosting […]

SCOM 2016 – What’s New UNIX/Linux Series: File System Discovery e.g. Exclude /tmp

A little pain in SCOM 2012 R2 was, that as soon you installed the UNIX/Linux management packs for your distribution all UNIX/Linux folders were discovered on the file system. This could be lead to a huge list of monitored directories e.g. /tmp, /var… which was not intended to be. To overcome this problem, you would […]

SCOM – New “Friday Rules” Series…Let’s Rule!

Today I would like to announce “Friday Rules”. Yes, of course Friday rules, but in my context I am going to publish short videos about the monitoring rules in SCOM always on a Friday. My goal is to show a short example (10-15 minutes) how you can create rules and what those can do for […]