A few month ago Microsoft released a preview version of System Center Advisor for SCOM 2012 SP1. This service was announced at MMS 2013 and gave you some idea what there might be coming. In that SCOM 2012 SP1 preview version you needed to download and configure separate components which was not as handy as […]
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SCOM 2012 – Encryption Key To Backup Or Not To Backup
Once in a time there comes the question about the encryption key in SCOM 2012 (SP1). Older SCOM administrators were used to backup their SCOM encryption key using the SecureStorageBackup.exe utility in SCOM 2007 R2. This encryption key is essential for restoring a SCOM 2007 R2 RMS server. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc540390.aspx The root management server encryption key […]
SCOM – Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) – FAQ
Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) is an older technology which has been around since a few years now. First it started off as Desktop Error Monitoring as a part of the MDOP kit and later on it has been implemented into SCOM and since then it exists as a feature until SCOM 2012 SP1. This post […]
SCOM – SQL Server Event ID 28005, AEM Wizard Runs Forever, Reporting Services Not Working
I like to automate things, creating batches and scripts. Well at least I like to create them myself and then I know what they do. In a small project I needed to install SCOM 2012 SP1 to show Agentless Exception Monitoring. Because larger environment need a managed way to install IT systems identically they often […]
SCOM 2012 SP1 – The .NET Framework 3.5.1 Story…
Today I ran in an unexpected problem at a customer. My mission was to install a SCOM 2012 SP1 Proof-of-Concept to show the customer what is possible and what information he can get out of SCOM. My last couple of installation were of course on Windows Server 2012. This customer was using Windows Server 2008 […]
Quick Post – Visio 2013 Stencils Bluish Single-Colored
Today I had some conceptual work to do and as this always involves some fancy Visio diagrams, I ran into a problem which might also could happen to you. Microsoft has released great Windows Server 2012 / Office 365 stencils for Visio 2013. You can find them here. As soon you start Visio and import […]
SCOM 2012 Veeam MP for VMware 6.0 – Part 1 Upgrade
About a year ago I wrote a blog post about an excellent management pack from Veeam to monitor a VMware ESX infrastructure. Veeam also released this year their new version of the management pack it is now officially called Veeam Management Pack v6 for VMware. In this post I would like to show a walkthrough […]
SCOM – Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM) Configure HTTPS Listener (SSL)
I used to believe the source code of the Windows operating system would be the best kept secret in the world, but I was taught there is another best kept secret on this planet. Yes, the secret was/is – “How do you configure https for Agentless Exception Monitoring (AEM)?”. There is very poor documentation from […]
SCOM 2012 – Getting SCOM SNMP Device Properties in PowerShell
Have you ever tried to access a network device respectively network device properties in SCOM using PowerShell? Let’s say you want to access the network device’s IP address, vendor or description for using in a script? Well, I am sure you will run into a problem which you probably don’t expect. You might think, easy, […]
SCOM 2012 – Fixing SLA Dashboard Weird ID Naming Problem
Some time ago, while doing some distributed applications and SLA dashboards I encountered a problem in the SLA dashboard. Instead of displaying the full readable name of the objects there were partially some ID’s from the management pack displayed. I usually install an English Windows Server operating system and also the English version of the […]