Veeam is well known for their high quality management packs for VMWare and Hyper-V monitoring. There is also very detailed documentation around how to install and configure the management packs. One thing I am missing is the unattended installation of the Veeam Virtualization Extensions Service and Veeam Virtualization Extensions Web UI for Hyper-V management pack […]
Author: stefanroth
Advanced Threat Analytics – Silent Installation “Adventure”
Well I love to automate things a lot using PowerShell – really I do! The success of automation depends on two major things. First there are the detailed requirements and secondly technical documentation of your stuff you want to automate. In reality, most projects do not cover both parameters in a satisfying way at all. […]
Azure Monitor – New Alerts Experience (Preview)
I have been following the updates from Azure Monitor since its birth. Because I am also interested in OMS / Azure Log Analytics it has been an exciting time to see in what direction both products are moving. As we can clearly see the parts of OMS are moving into the Azure portal, there is […]
Azure Log Analytics – Portal Refresh
It has been not long ago when Microsoft introduced the new Azure Log Analytics query language and also the new portal experience at http://portal.loganalytics.io . Just as we got used to the portal, I noticed some refreshes and clean up. The portal looks now like this… …the menu to run the query, set the interval, […]
PowerShell – Comparing Management Pack Version
I bumped into an interesting problem while writing a custom PowerShell module. The module should compare the management packs from a SCOM management group and some local repository. If the local repository has a higher version number than the currently installed management pack, the script should import the management pack into SCOM. This post should […]
PowerShell – Convert Special Character String Into Numbers
Do you know the situation where you have to handle strings / string data that has a lot of complex characters? In certain situation it is just a pain to deal with strings that have special characters like “*ç%&/()=`è or even an entire Export-CliXML output content. Recently I had the need to embed such data […]
OMS – Monitor Windows Services / Processes
One thing I am missing in OMS is, to monitor windows services and processes easily. Well, there are many ways to monitor such components with OMS like: Run some sort of PowerShell script on the server to check the windows service or processes status and then use the HTTP Data Collector API to ingest the […]
Azure Log Analytics – Cross Workspace Query Resolve Workspace ID
At Ignite 2017 Microsoft introduced a new functionality in Azure Log Analytics (ALA) to write queries across workspaces. This has been a long awaited feature for many customers. Why? Let’s imagine you want to provide IT services for customers and you would like to keep data separated for each customer in its own workspace. At […]
SCOM 2016 – Start-SCOMAgentMaintenanceMode PowerShell Way
In SCOM 2016 there is a new way to set maintenance mode on your agent machine itself. Microsoft released a module to set the maintenance mode on the agent server itself. It uses a library (MaintenanceMode.dll) to set maintenance mode parameters on your monitored server. This DLL can be found in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring […]
SCOM 2016 – Preview 1711 What’s new?
You might have heard that Microsoft is switching to a semi-annual channel for Windows Server and System Center. If you have no clue what this is or what it means then read this post from June 2017. In short, it means that every half year, Microsoft will release new updates for your System Center / […]