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SCOM 2012 – Try Linux Nagios Plugins e.g. File Age Check

You might remember MacGyver – a guy who could build a NASA rocket out of some explosives, matches and a steel tube. He was my hero back then but today you could also be a MacGyver by just using the tools you have and just plug it the right way together. That means MacGyver used […]

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 2012 Monitoring Cisco UCS – Part 2 Install UCS MP 2.5

In part 1 we build the foundation for monitoring by setting up the UCS emulator. In this part 2 we are going to install the UCS management pack version 2.5. On my SCOM 2012 management server I started the and this will fire up a wizard which we will see now…