This is just a short post about a blog post I wrote some time ago. OpsLogix is a company, which builds great management packs for SCOM. Because of that, I have written a blog post some time ago and based on this post, OpsLogix decided to create a White paper. Here I would like to […]
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SCOM 2012 Veeam MP for VMware 6.0 – Part 2 FAQ
Few month ago I had written about the installation respectively upgrade of the Veeam management pack from version 5.7 to 6.0. You will find this post on my blog called SCOM 2012 Veeam MP for VMware 6.0 – Part 1 Upgrade. Alec King, who is the “father” of the Veeam MP, attended System Center Universe […]
SCOM 2012 – OpsLogix Oracle Intelligent Management Pack Custom Templates
As you might know I am Swiss guy and we are famous for our hand-crafted, precise watches and exact work we do. I am always trying to find other great things which also match these qualities. In terms of SCOM I like management packs which work precise like Swiss watches and are as useful as […]
SCOM 2012 R2 Java APM – MP Installation and Configuration (Part 3)
Finally we are going to install and configure Java APM management pack. Just for a small recap, we have a monitored Linux server and a fully functional Tomcat application server in place which is configured for deep monitoring. Cool, huh? Now we would like to get some hands on performance of one of the applications […]
SCOM 2012 R2 Java APM – Configure JEE Application Monitoring (Part 2)
In part 1 we have installed a Linux and Tomcat 6 application server. A must requirement to install and run Java Application Performance Monitoring (Java APM) is, that your application server is deeply monitored using Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) management pack for Tomcat 6. Some time ago I did write a blog post how to […]
SCOM 2012 R2 Java APM – Install Ubuntu / Tomcat (Part 1)
Few weeks ago Microsoft released a new management pack for Java Application Performance Monitoring (Java APM). You might are familiar with the .NET Application Performance Monitoring (.NET APM) and now a similar solution is available for Java applications. What is Java APM? SCOM Java Application Performance Monitoring (Java APM) allows you to get performance and […]
SCOM 2012 R2 – System Center Advisor Overview
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 […]
Quick Post – Import-SCOMManagementPack : The requested management pack is not valid. See inner exception for details.
I have seen in the forum there are some difficulties using the Import-SCOMManagementPack cmdlet for SCOM 2012. Some time ago I wrote a post about how to import multiple MPs using Import-SCOMManagementPack. If you try to import just one MP you might get a meaningless error in PowerShell like this…
SCOM 2012 – Unix/Linux Dynamic Grouping Using VSAE Authoring
SCOM is a great tool for monitoring cross platform systems as for example Linux or other Unix derivate. Although Microsoft invested a lot in cross platform monitoring, one thing I am missing is a way for dynamic grouping Unix/Linux systems in SCOM. What is the problem? As you might know in SCOM you can create […]
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 […]