Yes we all know less is sometimes more. This saying does not only belong to the human bodyweight, nope, since the Windows Server Core area we all know less “*.dll” is better. Like this saying, a few days ago I had been asked an interesting question. How can we use the SCOM PowerShell module without […]
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SCOM 2012 SP1 – Part 3: Audit Collection Services (ACS) Testing Cross Platform Logging
In part 1 and part 2 we installed ACS for collection Windows and Linux events. In part 3 I am going to show how the cross platform ACS works in an easy example. In part 2 we had a close look at a specific rule called Delete User. I think this is a perfect example […]
SCOM 2012 SP1 – Part 2: Audit Collection Services (ACS) Cross Platform Setup
In part 1 we installed the ACS collector, ACS reporting and enabled one Windows server to forward the events to the collector server ACS01. In this part we will install the cross platform part of ACS to collect the events from Linux systems.
SCOM 2012 SP1 – Part 1: Audit Collection Services (ACS) Setup
SCOM 2012 SP1 has been released and I was wondering how the setup behalves and how the look and feel is going to be. Therefore, I decided to play around with Audit Collection Services and write a 4 part blog series about it. Cool, huh? This 4 part series is going discusses in part 1 […]
SCOM – Exchange 2010 MP “extest_” User (?)
Have you ever installed the Exchange 2010 management pack? If you follow the management pack guide there will be a section where you can enable the synthetic transaction tests for the Exchange. Those synthetic transactions will perform several tests on your Exchange infrastructure and warn you if there is a problem with your mail flow. […]
Quick Post – Get “Register this connection’s addresses in DNS” Setting Quickly
Today I had an urgent requirement to get from a selected part of servers the network setting “Register this connection’s addresses in DNS”. The reason was, that some server didn’t register their settings in DNS because this setting was not set and therefore the A-record was not registered in DNS. My time was limited approximately […]
SCOM 2012 SP1 – “Unable to Proceed” Troubleshooting Upgrade Error
As I already have learned in many ways – Don’t assume anything, proof it! Another rule is – What you see is not always what you get. With those two quotes in mind we have to start troubleshooting in IT. Today I spent quite some time troubleshooting an SCOM SP1 upgrade installation. I wanted to […]
Quick Post – Create a file of any size quickly
Today I had to prepare some labs for a workshop and there I needed some test files of different sizes. It is sometimes a time consuming process of getting the entire preparation done. But if you know how to create stuff quickly on the command prompt without copying and downloading you are going to be […]
SCOM 2012 – SCOM Task Collection MP V 1.0
Update 07.03.2013: There is an updated version of this management pack and post. Please check the post found here. As the new year just started every one has many New Year’s resolutions, one of mine New Year’s resolution and also driven by customers was to create a SCOM task management pack which should contain as […]
SCOM 2012 – Event ID 31557 Health Service Modules
Strange things happen all the time but sometimes nobody can explain them why they happen. A relatively new SCOM 2012 installation was functioning well until a certain moment. I would like to blog about this behavior it might help somebody to get the same or similar problem solved. As I mentioned before this new and […]