Recently I ran into a problem while installing the reporting components of SCOM 2012. Everything went well until selecting the SQL Server instance and clicking “Next”. The error below hit my screen.
Author: stefanroth
SCOM 2012 – Discovery Wizard running forever again
In this post here on possible cause why the discovery wizard could run forever. Last week I faced a situation where the discovery wizard for deploying Linux agents and for deploying windows agents didn’t work. The setup topology was 2 management servers SCOM 2012 and one dedicated SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 for the SCOM databases.
SCOM – Check Size of Databases (SQL Standard Reports)
If you want to know how much space your OperationsManger database is using you could run a SQL Report. Because it is a feature from SQL Server 2008 R2 it’s easily overseen I just want to show an example.
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.
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…
SCOM 2012 Monitoring Cisco UCS – Part 1 Emulator Setup
In an ideal world scenario everything you would monitor is from Microsoft but in a real world scenario there are certain situation where you hit a foreign system type from a different company especially if you have to monitor hardware stuff. As in these cloudy days Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) is getting more popular […]
SCOM 2012 Visio Diagram in SharePoint 2010 – Errors
In my lab I installed SharePoint 2010 Enterprise. To do that there are several good sources on the internet. But still there are sometimes strange things happen and your Visio just does not appear in SharePoint and you just start fighting several errors. Here I am going to share my experience but remember it is […]
Geekmania 2012 – Holding two Sessions
Geekmania is an independent Swiss IT Event which covers mostly tracks about Microsoft products but not only. Together with my fellow MVP Marcel Zehner I’ll be holding two sessions.
TechEd 2012 Orlando Download Sessions – Offline Viewing
I just spent two weeks holiday in Florida and got back right before TechEd in Orlando started. Sadly, I could not attend the event. Because I don’t want miss the latest news I decided to find a way to download the sessions. I slightly modified my script which I used to download the MMS 2012 […]
– Nagios + SCOM – Uninstall Nagios Agent remotely using Powershell
I don’t like to clean up very much, but there are certain cases where it really makes fun to clean up. Especially if there a Non-Microsoft product, Powershell and SCOM involved. In my case a customer decided to replace his Nagios system through SCOM 2012. Cool!!! Because Nagios also uses an agent for monitoring, one […]