Have you ever wanted being notified about new Operations Manager KB article? Your answer will be yes I already have RSS-Reader and stuff like that. But is that cool? Is that the geeky way to do things? Hmm…no. Because I wanted to fool around with Orchestrator and SCOM so I built a Runnbook which sends […]
Author: stefanroth
SCOM 2012 – Update Rollup CU1
About 1 month after RTM SCOM 2012 receives its first update package. There is a detailed update description and a list with fixed issues. Also the update process is far more easier than we are used to good old times. You can find the KB article here and download here.
SCOM 2012 – NEW Monitoring Pack for UNIX and Linux OS
Microsoft just released the latest Xplat management packs for System Center Operations Manager 2012. You can find it here
SCOM 2007 R2 CU2 – Deploy Agent to Sun Solaris 10 Zone (SPARC)
Today I had a kind of emergency operation to complete. The customer needed a pre-prod Solaris 10 environment monitored with SCOM 2007 R2. The purpose was to get an idea what he could do and to show other teams what it looks like. There was just one small hitch it had to be now (as […]
Reset Monitor using SCOM 2012 and Orchestrator – A must have Runbook
There is at least one Runbook each SCOM responsible must have. Are you wondering which? Well, I am sure you are always aware of what kind of alert you are closing. Is this alert beeing generated by a rule or by a monitor. If it is generated by a rule you just can close the […]
SCOM 2012 – Discovery Wizard running forever
I experienced in a relatively small environment that the Discovery Wizard in SCOM 2012 is running forever. I rejected some pending agents which were discovered properly but stayed in a “Installation in progress” state. After I rejected these agents and wanted to re-discover these servers the Discovery Wizard kept runnig forever.
MMS 2012 Download Sessions – Offline Viewing
Here I just created a script to download the MMS 2012 sessions for offline viewing . There are few things you will need: Create a login account here http://www.mms-2012.com/digitalmms Get the script and the session file from here UPDATE (26.04.2012): I uploaded the latest sessions.txt file to skydrive which I received from Eric. It contains […]
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 2012 – Installing Pre-requisites for Web Console
Sometimes it takes time to install pre-requisites especially for the SCOM web console. There you need IIS, .NET Framework 3.5.1 and tons of IIS modules. There is a way to simplify. Use Powershell . To get an overview what has been installed type: Get-WindowsFeature If you want to see what IIS options has been installed, […]
SCOM 2012 – Add a product key to an eval version
Microsoft published KB2699998 which guides you through setting a valid license key for a SCOM 2012 evaluation version. KB can be found here.