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Fixing Citrix WMI errors 0x80041001 / 0x80041002 – XenApp 6

I am sure during your Operations Manager career you already faced some WMI errors while installing e.g. Active Directory or XenApp management packs. A few days ago I installed the XenApp 6.0 MP in SCOM 2007 R2. Suddenly errors 0x80041001 and 0x80041002 appeared in Active Alerts view. WMI errors are always kind of pain in […]

SCSM – Adding Activities Using SMA / PowerShell Workflow

For the past couple of weeks I have been doing some automation stuff using Service Management Automation (SMA) and therefore PowerShell in conjunction with Service Manager. I like PowerShell very much, especially if I can interact with other systems. As you might know in the “old” days you would use Orchestrator and Service Manager to […]

SCOM 2012 Monitoring Cisco UCS – Part 3 Overview UCS MP

In part 1 and part 2 we installed the emulator and the UCS management pack. At this moment we are able to explore the huge amount of information we get out of UCS.