Probably one of the biggest pain in monitoring is to provide a dashboard displaying all information needed. There are many third party solutions available but also Microsoft offers plenty of ways to display monitoring information. One feature I like very much is to have Azure Log Analytic queries exported and displayed in PowerBI. In this […]
Reporting
Azure Application Insights – Using Squared Up Web API
Many of you know Squared Up for their powerful HTML 5 dashboard solution for SCOM. It does an awesome job displaying data in a fast and easy way. There is also a way to display OMS data within the dashboard using the OMS tile. Although this is very cool as you are able to combine […]
OMS – Log Search Cheat Sheet
A bit more than 2 years ago I created a cheat sheet for Azure Operational Insights Search Data Explorer, today known as Operations Management Suite (OMS) Log Search. Over the years this technology has evolved and grown to one of THE most exciting products from Microsoft. The log search syntax has also grown and got […]
SCOM 2012 R2 – SQL Server 2014 / Report Viewer 2014 Support
Microsoft announced few month ago SCOM 2012 R2 offers support for SQL Server 2014… And if we go to the TechNet article it also clearly says, SCOM 2012 R2 is supported on SQL Server 2014 here described… There is even a perfect table which explains everything clearly… From my point of view, this let’s us […]
Power BI – Introduction Part 1
I had already written in the past, that I like to combine new technologies to build new solutions. There are new technologies coming which might get not that attention yet they would deserve. My recent attention got caught by Power BI. I had some sort of idea what Power BI would be but not in […]
Microsoft Azure Operational Insights – Search Data Explorer Cheat Sheet
At TechEd Europe Microsoft officially announced Microsoft Azure Operational Insights. If you are not familiar with it check my previous posts about this new “tool”. Behind all these sexy dashboards there is also a very powerful search engine called “Search Data Explorer”. It uses a search window where you can enter a query to get […]
SCOM – Role Permission For Scheduled Reports
Depending on the SCOM role you are using you might need to give the user the ability to see and run scheduled reports. For example you add the user into the SCOM Operator role in addition you create Report Operator role and you assign this Report Operator role permission for Reporting Services. Marnix Wolf has […]
SCOM – SCOM Console Empty Report Pane
Today I bumped into an interesting issue. The customer needed to restrict access to the SCOM environment a SCOM Operator role and in addition access to the SCOM reports in the console. Therefore I created the SCOM Operator role with the needed permission and I also created a Report Operator role and added the user […]
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 – Custom AEM Reports
If you followed the community lately, you see some are writing blog posts about reporting in System Center. It is funny as I also have been playing around with Report Builder 3.0 lately and it seems that I am following this trend. Building custom reports is not that difficult if you have some sort of […]