I had a requirement to have some sort of tool to easily enable and disable subscriptions and also close alerts in one shot. Of course my first thought was to use PowerShell, but soon I figured out that there is a lack of functionality. If you try to disable and enable a subscription you will […]
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SQL Server Management Pack – Populate Run As Account With Agent Objects In One Shot (PowerShell)
I have so many ideas from other products which I would like to blog about, but somehow I get stuck with SCOM all the time, like an addict. Well, today I implemented the SQL Server management pack for a large customer and as you might know you need to configure a Run as account and […]
Application Insights – Getting Started…
When System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 was released, the SCOM agent name changed to Microsoft Monitoring Agent. Almost at the same time Microsoft released a standalone version of this agent called also Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA). Currently is a preview version of Microsoft Monitoring Agent UR1 available for download. But what does that mean […]
SCOM – Global Service Monitor Using Visual Studio Web Test
Global Service Monitor has been around for quite some time now. If you never heard of Global Service Monitor then I would like to give you a short description by Microsoft. System Center Global Service Monitor is a cloud service that addresses this problem by extending the application monitoring capabilities in System Center 2012 beyond […]
SCOM 2012 – Maintenance Mode Console Tool V 1.0
In my last post I published a GUI based tool to put Windows and UNIX/Linux computer into maintenance mode. After great success, there were requests to have some sort of scheduling mechanism for setting maintenance mode on a regular time schedule. Well, as I have mentioned in my previous post, there are many ways to […]
SCOM 2012 – Maintenance Mode Tool V 1.0
From my customers and also in the forums I hear and read frequently the questions about setting maintenance mode from a monitored server. Let’s assume you are an administrator and you need to put your file server in maintenance mode. How are you going to set maintenance mode? Well there are many ways, let’s just […]
White Paper – OpsLogix Oracle Intelligent Management Pack
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 […]
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 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 […]