Last week I had to travel to China. So far, I haven’t had any experience with Asian countries nor culture, except of the local Chinese restaurant in Switzerland. What I learned, that there are different ways to visualize common scenarios and how important it is to make the visualization readable and understandable, also for foreigners. […]
Dashboard
Quick Post – SCOM 2012 Where Does Widget Data Come From?
As you know SCOM 2012 provides new dashboard types (column or grid layout) which can contain widgets. Widgets are small “add-on” which are able to display different kind of SCOM data. For example state data (similar to state views) or performance data (similar to performance views). Here an example… Over on Operations Manager Team blog […]
SCOM 2012 R2 – Integrate SC Advisor Website
If you talk to people for example at System Center Universe DACH you get ideas and also solutions right from the experts. Well this time, I was having dinner with Cameron Fuller (THE SCOM guru) from Catapult Systems , just a simple idea came up. As you know System Center Advisor will be available as […]
SCOM 2012 SP1 – Publish Visio Dashboard in SharePoint 2010 Walkthrough
There are many posts including TechNet article about publishing Visio dashboards in SharePoint 2010 using the Microsoft Visio 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Extensions for System Center 2012 . I found most of these article have a lack of information either the posts are for SCOM 2007 R2 or they do not cover the SharePoint side […]
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 […]
SCOM 2012 SharePoint Dashboard – Part 2
In SCOM 2012 SharePoint Dashboard – Part 1 I showed you how to add a SCOM Dashboard to SharePoint site. Because I am using the SharePoint Foundation 2010 so far only SCOM Admins and Operators would have access. Except you would configure shared credentials in SharePoint which is not supported in the SharePoint Foundation version. […]
SCOM 2012 SharePoint Dashboard – Part 1
For my setup I used the Share Point Foundation 2010 on my System Center Service Manager 2012 management server where I also installed the self-service portal. The following pre-requisites are needed: The Operations Manager Web Console must be installed on a management server. The SharePoint farm must be running SharePoint Server 2010 Standard, SharePoint Server […]